With Foursquare seeing fast growth and starting to be embraced by elements of the mainstream (like their new deal with Bravo), it might be decision time.A popular part of the gaming element of the service is gaining badges, virtual tokens that show …
One of the glaring things missing from the Apple iPad is a camera. Interestingly, though, a source confirmed to Engadget that the iPhone OS 3.2 — the operating system running on the iPad — has several different software hooks that includ…
Microsoft is many things, but it’s not a successful web company. For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player online. Yet despite having the most popular browser, it’s never really monetized the web in a significant wa…
Google updated its Chrome browser’s developer’s builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Originally posted at The Download Blog
An often-overlooked metric is the time taken from the first click on an ad to the final conversion of the keyword. That is, the total conversion time for a keyword in a given campaign. While this metric may seem relatively unimportant to ROI (for in…
It’s been almost 3 weeks since Google revealed the Nexus One. Since then, the Google-branded smartphone has been the subject of constant analysis and iPhone vs. Nexus One comparisons. In fact, the Nexus One defeated the iPhone by 38% in a re…
Google has announced that it’s now personalizing search suggestions that appear on Google Maps. It’s an odd announcement to me, because I’m almost sure my maps search suggestions have been personalized for some time now. One thing …
When the iPhone first launched in 2007 I was sure I wasn’t going to buy one. Then I played with one. 15 minutes later I was $600 poorer. It was arguably the best tech purchase I’ve ever made. After the Apple event today, I got a chance to play with …
I admit it – I’m guilty of this just because I think the “right word” says so much more than the “almost-right word”. So I catch myself spending a huge amount of time and energy trying to come up with the PERFECT headline. The thing …
While it may feel like 2010 is already whizzing by, now is a good time to take a step back and think about the big to-do list items for in-house search marketers this year. We’ve all got a list of million little search optimizations that need doin…