As Google’s social networking star, Google+ continues to grow and acquire interesting new features, older Google products continue to be axed, presumably to free-up resources to support their new favourite.
Knol, Google Wave, Renewable Energy cheaper than Coal (RE<C), Google Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Search Timeline and Google Bookmarks Lists will be shut down permanently [...]

Facebook has now decided to increase the scope of advertising on their website, by placing Sponsored Stories in their recently introduced News Ticker. Could this be the first step towards having Sponsored Stories show up in the main news feed?
Last week, Facebook spokesperson, Annie Ta said, “Starting on Monday, we are continuing to slowly roll [...]

The pain of a 302 response

Over the last three months, a bunch of folks have used my server response code tester to check whether their web sites correctly respond to broken links, correct links, etc. Per my first post about the tool, I’ve been storing the results—don’t worry, no personal data, just web site, [...]

In this video interview, SEO expert Arnie Kuenn explains how content marketing strategies have changed since Google’s ‘Panda’ update in February 2011 downgraded the rankings of many content-heavy sites, due to duplicate or poor quality content. Kuenn explains what factors are believed to be used by Google to detect poor content and what to do [...]

On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device.
Google will synchronise the music to a Google Music [...]

On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device.
Google will synchronise the music to a Google Music [...]

Swifto – errands run, lickety-split

Elad over at Swifto asked me to review their site. Swifto is a cool service: You post a small errand or task you need performed, and they match you up with someone who can get it done. It’s only in NYC (damn) or I would’ve tested it out.
This is a small [...]

Mobile retail marketing has been gaining popularity and is set to grow even further. This has just been confirmed by a report from Juniper Research.
Marketing professionals and retailers are now putting a lot more effort into their mobile marketing campaigns. This is obviously because they have realised that mobile marketing is starting to pay rich [...]

A recent report from Nielsen has indicated that Internet use in South East Asia is on the rise.  The study finds that not only is the internet growing in popularity but it is even out-shining the use of other traditional media channels such as TV radio and the print media.
The study was conducted across six countries – Singapore, [...]

I wrote a post, and this time lots of folks taught me good stuff. See the comments after the post for great info I’d totally forgotten on how Google calculates site performance

Google, I’m very… disappointed.
You may have noticed that Conversation Marketing is a wee bit more speedy now. Last week, a page on this site [...]