Archive for February 1st, 2006

Matt Cutts Offers Usability Advice on the Google Toolbar Beta

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Matt Cutts, SEO darling and Google employee, has posted a terrific and long-winded post on the Google Toolbar beta.
The toolbar allows for custom button creation.
Here Matt’s using it to do an on-the-fly look-up of the whois for ftd.com.
It’s almost enough to make me use Internet Explorer again (almost).
If you are enjoying [...]

Using Adwords?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Inside AdWords 
Inside AdWords, the official Google blog for AdWords, clears up a frequently asked question about minimum keywords:
The minimum bid, also known as the minimum CPC, is the least that one can pay to have an ad appear for a particular keyword in a particular account. It is very important to know, however, that [...]

HP Uses Blogs To Drive PR For Their Sundance/Habitat Auction

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Bloggers across the net are lending their voice to this event, as we did to the Katrina effort.  Take notice that charity work online is virally important.
Some of you may be aware that last year HP held a charity auction in conjunction with the Toronto Film Festival.  Their efforts raised around $10K and then they [...]

Google’s Stock Takes a Nose Dive

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

(photo from Batelle’s blog)
Google has been riding high for some time now, and when their stock hit $400 recently, many assumed there was only room to grow there.
But, while Wall St loves you, they really, really love you, but if you miss an earnings mark, they will drop you like a hot potato.
Seems [...]

Attensa’s Reader Launches

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Attensa’s web-based reader was launched today with support for Outlook. I was able to preview this earlier and I have to say I was pretty impressed.
Matthew Bookspan,
Director of Product Management for Attensa gave me a guided tour, via GoToMeeting and he showed me everything from adding feeds manually to the almost real-time syncronization with [...]