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Google Mail Video - Viral Video

Posted October 12th @ 5:11 pm by Brett

Google asked gmail fans to help us illustrate how an email message travels around the world. All it took was a video camera, the Gmail M-velope ( ), and some creativity.
You can check out all of the submissions we received on YouTube, and read more about it on the Official Gmail Blog.
Almost 5 million […]

Google (almost) owns you.

Posted September 6th @ 3:01 pm by Brett

I have always know that Google collects information about what we do online. A post on Mark & Angel really points this out:
Here are 16 things Google knows about you and how they acquired the info:

My Full Name – It’s in my Gmail headers and a requirement on various Google service signup forms.
My […]

DIY at YouTube

Posted August 28th @ 1:48 pm by Brett

The number of Do-It-Yourself videos are quickly expanding. Here is an opportunity for a retailer or a FMCG to jump on board and produce how-to clips using their products. From the Cherry Co-Op offer recipes to Black and Decker.
I was thinking about this morning before seeing an article on a Google blog. I thinking that […]

Google Site Optimiser

Posted August 21st @ 2:35 pm by Brett

Google have finally released the Beta of their website optimizer. I first saw this about a year ago.

Website Optimizer, Google’s free multivariate testing application, helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by continually testing different combinations of site content (text and images).

I have […]

Business cashing in on social networks

Posted August 1st @ 11:34 pm by Brett

Is it such a bad thing? To a purest of the social networking scene, such invasions can be like water torture. The reality is without business involvement these social networks would never have arrived. To the purest it is a necessary evil.
So why can’t everyone just get along? They can and they do! As we […]

Trends

Posted June 12th @ 5:22 pm by Brett

one of the sites I monitor has had an increase of 124% search referrals on the key phrase “web design”. Out of interest I typed this in Google Trends to see if there has been increase. To my surprise it has been in steady decline for the past 3 years.
AJAX had a massive search boom […]

New look for Google Analytics

Posted May 14th @ 9:24 pm by Brett

Last week Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, launched the new look Google Analytics. I have already checked this out and I’m still undecided on the dumbed down interface.

Smite that! (if such a character actually exists)

Posted May 11th @ 2:03 pm by Brett

The Found Agency has felt the smite of Google. The search engine marketing company has been dereanked from number one to 52nd on “search engine optimisation” search term. The $3m company who has recently been purchased by the Photon used “black hat” methods.
I have an experimental site I use for testing SEO. Earlier this year […]

Privacy and Web 2.0

Posted May 4th @ 8:37 pm by Brett

It amazes me how the term Web2.0 has come to favor. I suppose Dot Com 2.0 didn’t have the marketing power as “Web 2.0”. It is only Jargon, which is completely irrelevant to the copyright issue.
As a developer I have been adding audio and video to websites for over 10 years. And there have been […]

New meaning to sex on the brain.

Posted May 3rd @ 10:43 am by Brett

Imagine a Google Brain Implants? Considering the about of ‘Adult’ content out there, imagine what you could end up with running through your head. Every teenage boy will want one!
Some shared the believe that search function brain implants may be in store in the distant future. Hundreds of years from now, hopefully, the world of search […]

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