Archive for December, 2009

So Facebook had higher traffic than Google in XMAS 2009.  Hope Facebook asked Santa for more servers this year! I did notice that Facebook was rather slow all day on Christmas.  Happy Holidays to all of you this holiday season! Facebook Beats Google : Most Visited Site on Christmas | Search Engine Journal.

Ok, I thought this was fake when I first heard about it last week. BUT it looks to be true.  Youtube now has a URL shortener!  Pretty cool! Makes it easier to tweet about of course!  Enjoy! To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug [...]

And I am using it! So far, I like it a lot. It is faster and I am starting to play with a lot of the updates. Will report more on this later… but so far I give 2 thumbs Ups for Word Press 2.9 Carmen!

This is my favorite new tool from Google which just came out early Dec. 2009. – BROWSER SIZE – This page allows you to see which parts of your site are able to be seen by the smallest of browsers. I personally always design no WIDER than 1000px with a possible stretchy width beyond [...]

Are you or your business on Facebook yet? If not, you SHOULD be!  Because EVERYONE is now heading to Facebook! Experian Hitwise has just released two significant data of 2009 – top-search term and top-visited site with Facebook and Google earning the top spot respectively. Facebook beats dislodged last years top-searched term – MySpace. While Google [...]

I’ve seen this someplace before…. hmmmm… I think it is in the Apple Address Book! Is Google just cherry picking ideas right from Apple?  I think so. But it is cool and helpful. If you’ve been considering getting all your contacts into Gmail or syncing your Gmail contacts to your phone, now's the time to do [...]

I have already enabled this. It is really cool when there is a really long thread in your email and you get about half way down and then the phone rings… happens to me all of the time!  With this, I can mark that I have read to this point so I can open it [...]

WOW!  Didn’t think this would happen so fast! Welcome to the world of instant results! Twitter, Facebook and Blogging just became TEN TIMES MORE IMPORTANT for your SOCIAL NETWORK MARKETING! First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after [...]