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    Who Is Thom?

    A self-proclaimed marketing guy in a geek's body, Thom's skills combine the best of technical programming and system administration with marketing skills that make him second to none in Web site design and promotion.
     

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    Don’t like those new options down the left side of your Google search results?  There’s an app for that.   Sorry – I got carried away.  There’s a plug-in for that.  If you use Firefox or Chrome and you don’t want to see those new search refinement options on the Google search results pages, Bruce Clay’s SEO Tools has a plug-in for you. Until Google’s recent interface change, you had the option to see tools that would help you refine search [...]

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    Google has changed their look and given a Web 2.0 face lift to the search interface. With it comes a plethora of tools and filters to let searchers control the search results and better decide what they want to see. A how-to guide on the new Google.

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    The Google Analytics team announced new changes to what they’re calling the Google Analytics Ecosystem.  Several announcements were made today at EMetrics.  Specifically, the team announced Analytics Apps, new reports for tracking AdWords campaigns, includnig AdWords Search Funnels now available in all AdWords accounts and asynchronous tracking is now officially out of beta. If you hadn’t used it before, you can add the code with these instructions. Apps are apparently where it’s at. After launching the Google Apps Marketplace, Google has [...]

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A Recap of Lost iPhone iProbe

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 0 Comment

The Internet blogosphere has been alive for a week now with buzz about the iPhone that an Apple employee left behind in a California bar.  In a nutshell: March 18th: Apple employee Gray Powell leaves his iPhone 4G prototype in a bar. A college-aged gentleman finds the phone and tries to return it. After Apple ignored him, he tried to contact Wired and eventually contacted Engadget and Gizmodo. A Gizmodo editor agrees to help him return it to Apple and [...]

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The Apple-Adobe Apple-Google War

Posted by Thom On April - 28 - 2010 0 Comment
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Apple has their panties in a wad about Adobe for a while now. Specifically they don’t like Adobe’s shortcomings with Flash.  Fine, so the iPhone and iPad will never have Flash and will keep showing the blue box. HTML 5 isn’t official yet. But Apple is behind it because it reduces the need for third-party software like Flash (Adobe) and Silverlight (Microsoft).  Who cares, right? Those are just two pesky little companies anyway. But the behavior of both Adobe toward [...]

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Facebook Has Abandoned Their Users’ Privacy

Posted by Thom On April - 27 - 2010 0 Comment
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Facebook apparently has overstepped some bounds and taken more than liberties with its policies that govern users’ personal information. In addition to sharing with applications on Facebook, information will now be able to be shared with any Website that inserts a Like button.

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Piwik – Web Analytics Alternative to Google

Posted by Thom On April - 23 - 2010 0 Comment
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Piwik is an open source Web analytics solution. While it’s still beta, it shows great promise for those who can’t afford high-priced hosted solutions and are intimidated about giving Google all their data.

A brief review on a piece of software that’s easy to install, maintain and customize.

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