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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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Podcasts for the Web Developer and Designer

There are several ways to stay up-to-date with tech related news. Whether it’s via RSS feeds, newsletters, forums, user-groups—you name it—tons! What do all these have in common? You have to use your eyes and can’t consume them while driving! So, if you want a more passive way to stay in touch with what’s going [...]

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Buckle up! WebP, WebM and SPDY have entered “The Browser Race”

WebP is pronounced “weppy” and it’s Google’s new WebP graphics format which has the potential to reduce image file sizes by approximately 40 percent when compared to the industry standard JPEG file formats. If you’re a skeptic like me, you can use Google’s webconv converter tool described here, to measure the results for yourself. Okay… [...]

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Facebook, Twitter and…Tumblr?

Facebook is your high school yearbook. Twitter is a book of short quotations. Tumblr is a big honking coffee table book with glossy pictures. Things I like about Tumblr. You can share any media: images, video or audio. 140 character limit… see ya. You can follow any Tumblr blog and the posts will appear in [...]

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Google gets further along with “Real-time Searching”

“Time” has been a topic of interest for as long as there has been time to think about the topic of “time”. William Penn said, “Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst” and Jim Bishop said, “Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” And, Albert Einstein said, “The only reason [...]

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Ogilvy and Bernbach on web marketing

What would the original “Mad Men” make of the world wide interweb? Here are two quotes, one from David Ogilvy and another from Bill Bernbach.  And some thoughts on how their words can be interpreted today. “Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.”  David [...]

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Media is creative

I worked at Ogilvy in the 1980’s and knew a media planner named Kristy. She had a sign in her office that read, “media is creative.” Kristy steered clients to MTV before it took off.  She predicted what new shows would be hits and what would bomb.   Kristy had a feel for people and the [...]

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