Archive for June 19th, 2008

Google takes on global warming, buys the Earth.

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I expect to read that headline tomorrow, but in the meantime Google did recently buy DoubleClick, emboldening their advertising empire further. To add to Google’s dominance in online advertising, Yahoo! has agreed to try serving Google ads next to Yahoo! search results. I never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for Microsoft. [...]

Attention span - 10 seconds.

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Time yourself - how long will you give me to capture your attention with this blog?  5 seconds?  1 Minute?  Most likely, I have about 10 seconds to either interest you or watch you leave my website.  As a busines blogger, you can greatly impact key website metrics like “time on site” and “average page [...]