Make sure you don't show up at a gun fight with a knife. Every now and then, a little perspective helps when it comes to the value of a website design. Template-driven or custom webs design both have several phases or steps they go through before...
Facebook Removes Gun Sweepstakes – Fast CompanyGiving away AR-15s in exchange for Likes is indeed a violation of Facebook's advertising restrictions. One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google.
Nerf gun wars Literally, get back to work. In a memo leaked round the Interwebz, Mayer told her staff (and accidently, the world) about her vision to create a more united Yahoo. To do that, the days of telecommuting at Yahoo were put to a close.
Lately, the news has been chock full of updates regarding the issue of gun control. With the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and the prior shooting at a movie theater in Colorado, the government is now taking...
Employ Small Tests When Under the Gun You know you’ve hit the big time when you end up in a feature article in Wired. That’s what happened when Brian Christian wrote about the A/B test — the technology behind some of the biggest e-commerce online.
because they are completely gun shy about selecting a firm that won’t work out. When it’s “hot”, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. How many people wanted to build the next Google, Facebook, or [insert company name here]?
If there was ever a group that could, well… this is like the pope not praying or the head of the NRA not owning a gun. Other than clean up the quality of Google's index what else could the objective of Penguin be?
It’s better to first define business objectives, not jump the gun on “going viral” (yeugh! The thing is, content isn’t so black and white – especially on the web – which is what makes it so disarming to begin with.
Sometimes we’re under the gun to “own” a category or idea. This time of year, everyone enjoys a good scare. Ghosts are around every corner, goblins meet you at your door and you are likely to face more tricks than treats.
Granted, it’s quite possible that Lamborghini may never get that ticket as you’re watching it zoom by, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a cop just a few miles up the road waiting with a radar gun. On the heels of yet another “SEOs are just gaming...
In 2007, Google had already taken a stance against gun-related content, booting blogs about guns from the AdSense program. The weapons ban is part of Google’s transition to paid PLAs (Product Listing Ads) and has some Americans protesting the move...
Sometimes You Need to Take a Banana to a Gun Fight Doctor Who" was a program about a strange, crotchety old man and his granddaughter, who accidentally kidnapped a pair of teachers and took them on adventures throughout time and space in what...
If your backlink profile looks like this, you already have a smoking gun to look into. With the advent of the Penguin algorithm on April 24, the bill finally came due for a lot of sites involved in spammy link building methods.
I think he may have admired my creativity, but he didn't have the patience when compared to his machine-gun-disposable-domain approach. Link marketing must be viewed more as a PR function and less of an SEO function.
But we don’t just want them; we go nuts for them like a crowd explodes when a T-shirt gun comes out. I, like most people, have a final showdown between Kentucky and UNC with the Wildcats coming out on top.
Google+ is running on fresh legs - and beckoning us to join while the echo from the starting gun can still be heard. Here was my reaction to the introduction of Google+ around six months ago: Sweet, Google’s rolling out its own improved version of...
They didn’t want to jump the gun and launch them before they were ready, that’s understandable. The reaction to Google+ Pages is mixed, with critics highlighting a number of features that, quite frankly, we expected after Google’s repeated...
Horowitz tried to further distance Google+ from Facebook by claiming the social network they’ve built is uniquely their own and early comparisons between the two were just the result of people jumping the gun.
So, I’m tempted to say, “Move along, nothing to see here,” just as Chief Wiggum in "The Simpsons" and Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" have told us for years. YouTube has posted a playbook that compiles important tips, best practices, and strategies...
But wait let’s not jump the gun, let’s read some more of the document, or “strategy” as outlined. There has been a lot of speculation about why the push for real names on Facebook and now Google, with Google taking a much harder line than even...