Back in November, Google changed the default user interface for image searches. In doing so, they hid the ability to filter image search results by specific sizes. While the result of this change is a simpler search experience, it’s now harder for users — like art teachers who like to flex their “fair use” powers [...]
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Legend has it John F. Kennedy once came across an especially upbeat janitor while touring NASA. When JFK asked the janitor what he was so happy about, the janitor stopped, looked up with pride, and responded, “I’m happy because I’m sending a man to the moon.”
The search engine marketing (SEM) industry has grown to support a few major events. Perhaps the largest and most well known of these events is the series, Search Marketing Exposition (SMX), organized by the publishers of Search Engine Land. Last week, I had the opportunity of attending SMX East 2011 in New York City as [...]
In July of 2010, Overstock.com acquiredthe rights to O.co and officially began the process of rebranding in January 2011. In terms of pure branding, this seems like a reasonable move; i.e., Overstock.com no longer simply carries “overstocked” products so the old name no longer makes total sense. From a usability perspective, there are now fewer [...]
On June 28, 2011, Google launched a new social network called Google+ (Google Plus). At the time of this writing, it’s been entertaining humanity’s desire to add people to social “circles” for 21 days and has amassed over 10 million users (some estimates put Google+ at over 20 million users). Given that it took Facebook [...]
Geek Out [geek-out] –verb Slang. To engage in a conversation of a highly technical nature, typically with some other members of the party you are with, completely (and usually inadvertently) alienating others in the process. ~ www.UrbanDictionary.com There’s no fancy way to say it. There’s also not a technical term for it. However, when it [...]
No one starts a war–or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so–without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it. – Carl Von Clausewitz, Military Theorist This is the fifth and final post in a series on Slingshot SEO’s [...]
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan This is the fourth post in a five part series on Slingshot SEO’s C.L.A.S.S methodology. The first post, The “C” in CLASS, focused on how quality and original [...]
Form follows function… – Henri Louis Sullivan, Architect …that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. – Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect This is the third post in a five part series on Slingshot SEO’s C.L.A.S.S methodology. The first post, The “C” in CLASS, focused on how quality and [...]
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. – Charles Eames, Designer This is the second post in a five part series on Slingshot SEO’s C.L.A.S.S methodology. The first post, The “C” in Class, focused [...]