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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Let’s cut to the chase, I’m still not impressed. The apps load fast and the rendering is great. It is, as advertised, a “magic” device that’s not a computer, starts up quick and connects if there’s an app for it. But this is a toy, not a tool. The very pro-Apple-drinking Kool Aid guy who provided me the demo admitted that the iPad is not a good device for taking to a meeting to take notes and syncing with Exchange. [...]
Well, its been several weeks now and I’m both impressed and disappointed with the Android upgrade. The ability to dictate to any text field is impressive. I have used this in the car with the sunroof open and lots of white noise and it rarely misses. However, when it does miss the result is quite amusing. //
Not that this one is much better. I am eagerly anticipating the full release of WordPress 3.0. More specifically, I’m looking forward to the release of WP3 themes that take advantage of the new Menu system. Bear with my while I try to fiddle with a decent theme. //