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Category Archives: Technology that works

Google Adwords innovates a new feature called “Automated Rules”

Google Adwords has added a new helpful feature for automating common tasks when managing PPC campaigns.  With these automated rules, a campaign manager can help you automatically adjust bids, budgets, or ad statuses based on specific conditions that occurred during a previous period of time that the campaign was running. By using this feature, campaign [...]

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Have you heard of Schema.org and W3C Microdata formats?

Today, Web developers use HTML tags on their pages to tell the browser how to display the content; however, these tags don’t generally include semantical meaning to describe what kind of information is included.  By specifying semantical meaning within the Web page content, search engines can become more intelligent on categorizing the overwhelming amount of searchable information [...]

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Designing for Too Many Browsers

Making internet technology and Website designs that work has become increasing more challenging due to the plethora of browsers available today; in particular, quality assurance testing has become extremely challenging and time consuming.  One important consideration for saving time, is to design and program based on your targeted browser community.   So…how do you know what features are supported by each browser? The Can [...]

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High Performance Websites

This was a great read. Certainly learned a lot of useful lessons on front-end optimizations. Written by Steve Souders (previously lead Optimization efforts at Yahoo!), who also developed YSlow! – a Firefox add-on (actually an add-on to the Firefox add-on called Firebug) that gives your web pages a grade from A through F and tells [...]

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Why Facebook Pages are different than Profiles?

Recently, Facebook added a feature that allows brands, small businesses, and organizations with older “profile-based” user accounts to migrate their Facebook accounts into Facebook Pages. Prior to this feature, businesses were afraid to lose fans when creating a new Facebook Page; however, it’s now advisable that any Business, Company, Brand, Artist, Entertainment, or Non-Profit Communities [...]

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Have you heard of WAC – Wholesale Application Community for Mobile?

Is there a simple way to develop for every mobile platform? The Wholesale Applications Community has been established to answer this very important consideration. In particular, their mission is to increase mobile applications market by enabling cross-platform and carrier-impendent developer support. The WAC initiative has approximately 70 members, which are mostly mobile operators such as AT&T, China [...]

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Requirement Analysis: Asking the Right Questions

Many times when you’re eliciting requirements, you may be asked the question: “We need to add a textbox on this page. How long will it take?” That’s when your brain starts firing off neurons and begins synthesizing questions so you’ll be able to best meet the demands of the task. To aid your requirements analysis [...]

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Stop following me

The FTC is calling for the development of a “do not track” feature in web browsers.  With it, consumers will be able to browse websites without giving their data to companies. Giving consumers this choice is a good thing.   Of course, consumers who choose this path will forfeit tailored, specific, helpful content. A “do not [...]

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Why should you Stop. Think. Connect?

A National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Security Officers are increasingly aware that prevention against cyber security goes way beyond keeping your anti-virus and malware software updated. In particular, organizations and individuals are facing attacks engineered through: Phone calls XSS web link redirection Email phishing SQL injection Various other social engineering or fraud-architected scams All of [...]

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Pay-per-view has come a long way

Television meets the Internet with a joint product venture between Google and Sony. Sony’s new Internet TV, powered by Google TV, merges the best features of digital cable with new developments in Internet television and VOIP* technology. Integrating our favorite social networks, search engines and other share points; Google TV and Sony have rolled out [...]

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