App Card: A Tweet card for providing a profile of an application. Twitter Cards helps to richly represent content within tweets across the web and on mobile devices. A plus for brands and marketers investing time and resources to visual images in...
You can choose between various solutions that run as a desktop application or as web-based service. Con: Runs from your local machine and is based on the unwanted practice of link trades. When multiple links are removed or changed within a short...
The full version of Norton's Task Killer automatically scans and removes unused application elements, freeing up memory and speeding up the overall CPU. Android AutoClean is one of my favorites on this list for two reasons: the ability for me to...
Going forward, the EFF said that it hopes social networking sites and web application developers will continue to work to make sure that users are given protections and that data is handled responsibly when working with governments.
For example, are your users leaving product reviews, referring the application to others, etc. That said, Flurry excels in application engagement – you can define as many custom events as you need. Finally, with this option an app is usually...
The workaround to pair an app install to an ad click is a brief redirect to Mobile Safari on application launch, which allows the cookie to be read. Apple's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) was the standard mechanism for tracking installs across...
I started my career in web development and web application development, and I’m glad I did. Most web pages use JavaScript for one reason or another. At a minimum, learn the basics of web development. Based on what you find, consolidate your scripts...
Google has announced the ability for companies to offer their users a single point of access to their application, much like Facebook's Connect feature. Developers building apps for Android, iOS, or the web can now add a feature enabling users to...
In February of 2012, a new version of the Google patent was published as a pending application. Since Google News is the largest aggregator of news content on the Web, and its news results play a prominent role in many organic search results pages...
The current model of segmented analytics systems for different types of interactions and devices (web analytics focused on pages, mobile analytics focused on application interaction, social analytics focused on likes/tweets/retweet) won't generate...
Description: A free software application that allows you to quickly and efficiently create search, display, and/or remarketing campaigns. Description: A spreadsheet application/software that allows users to make calculations, graphs/charts, pivot...
During test crawls, you can find 302s, 404s, 500 errors (application errors), etc. Using the web developer plugin, you can view the document structure by clicking the "Information" tab, and then choosing "View Document Outline".
A 2004 patent application by Google suggested they planned on assigning greater relevance to links in such positions and I wrote a little more about personalized PageRank in “Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?
Even simple A/B testing can provide huge dividends if it's consistently applied to the right application. Not to under value some of the other projects and activities that IT teams and web developers are engaged in, but few will have the same...
Unlike Google, Apple has total access to everything that happens within the confines of an application, which means there’s a boatload of data to determine user appreciation. Use conversion optimization techniques and push notifications to ensure...
Some examples of “reminders” would be a sales event, a store opening, application deadlines, or even happy hour specials at a local pub. Along with visitors to certain web pages or sections of a site, advertisers can target visitor segment by...
The patent application describes the exact match domain problem: a company may attempt to “trick” the search engine into listing the company’s web site more highly. Slawski points out that a sentence near the end of the patent application opens the...
The first time I heard the phrase SUX was in Mark Monroe’s brilliant presentation on a panel we shared at SMX, it seemed important at the time, but application was limited because the SERPs were limited.
The company has recently been reorganizing its application lineup and shutting down its seldom-used projects. Google has bought web-based security tool developer VirusTotal. For Google, the VirusTotal purchase builds on an already formidable lineup...
If you are an application developer creating new applications that require massive amounts of changing data to be processed efficiently, these and similar technologies are likely part of your application architecture.
