Is it okay to sometimes blather on Twitter? Or do you always have to be “all business all the time”?
Trust me, for the uber tech savvy this is no big feat. However, if you need a pie chart for your article there really isn’t much of an easier way to get one. All you need is a label and a number. In other other Joe - 5, Mike - 7, Mary - 4 … and you can have a 3D pie chart image to use in your blog, article, presentation - whatever.
Go ahead and have fun with it.
Free royalty free graphs and charts to use on any site, article, email.
So where in your Tweets is the best place to put your links? I bet if you guess you’d say ______.
Well, Dan Zarrella knows. Or at least has a good idea. Further, he’s going to share it with you.
Give me a whole new idea for a Twitter app …
New Twitter Data: Optimal Link Placement for Clicks
One of the questions that I’ve been asked the most in the years I’ve been doing Twitter data analysis is where in a Tweet is the best position (beginning, middle or end) to include a link to get the most clicks. I had always assumed the end was the best, so I never thought much about the question.
Holidays are often a little slow around the holidays for big clients and a great time for small businesses to get some really slick custom development for their sites and pages. Here’s just one thing you can get into that really makes your site pop out from the crowd.
You can probably think of ideas that never crossed my mind - fundraisers, membership drives, event participation, clicks on links … let your mind run! May help decrease bounce rate and increase time on page - studies not yet conducted.
Create-A-Meter
Use this form to create a meter with your title and your data. You can choose a size up to 400 pixels and any number from 0 to 99.
Isn’t it amazing how times change and so do the contestants on the battlefield for your consumer dollar changes? For that matter as the products change we see small players explode onto the scene and challenge companies who, only months before, would have bought them and gutted them just to shut them up.
Well, that’s not what’s happening here - this is more bloody that that!
Samsung seeks to ban iPhone 4S amid patent row
The Korean phone giant said it would file suit against the iPhone 4S in France and Italy, in a bid to ban the phones less than a day after it was announced, adding fuel to the fire in the intensifying row.
I have again and again challenged Facebook on their childish approach to running their multi-billion dollar industry satisfactorily. One of my guests, a college friend of the Facebook founder, became quite animated and offended when I accused Facebook of being operated like a child’s game of checkers where the rules change daily in favor of the board owner.
Let’s face it, Facebook is a great tool but so very immature in so very many ways.
(Don’t shoot Ken, he’s only the messenger.) Or if you do shoot you can expect him to fire back.
Facebook Struggles to Explain Its Web-Tracking Practices
October 4th, 2011
Facebook’s business is built on trust, but that trust has been shaken over the past few weeks by criticism and speculation regarding how it uses browser cookies to get data about users.
Since the launch of social plugins and before, Facebook has left cookies on the browsers of people who sign up for accounts as well as anyone else who visits Facebook.com. These cookies are used to protect the site against hacking attempts and to show logged in users what their friends have Liked on third-party sites, the company has repeatedly said.
The fact that Facebook had to comment directly on three blog posts in an attempt to debunk speculation shows there is a lack of clear documentation explaining its use of cookies. By publishing its responses as governing documents and making them easy to find, Facebook could address users’ questions before they draw their own, sometimes-negative conclusions about the company’s intentions.
Yes! Now you’re getting it. With lower interest rates you can qualify for more home - especially with prices as low as they are today.
Take 3 minutes and read this very short article on how and why a higher interest rate can keep you from qualify for the same home you qualify for at lower rates.
For people who need to purchase a new home in the Atlanta area the numbers do line up well for the buying opportunity. The oversupply of available home listings, fixed 30 year interest rates at or near four percent, and underwriting guidelines trending toward “reasonable” it certainly is time to consider the move. Now here is some really good news: lowest interest rates results in lower monthly payments which changes the buyer’s debt-to-income ration resulting in the ability to buy more home for less money.
Debt To Income Ratio (DTI)
It becomes quickly obvious that as interest rates rise the buyer qualifies for less home. This is the primary reason today is a very good time to buy because rates are incredibly low (and will not stay that way) and home values are “in the tank” (and will not stay that way).
Read more at kennycook.com
In case you aren’t familiar with Alibaba they are the Hong Kong based company who made history in 2007 with the second largest internet based IPO of, I believe it was $1.7billion, only surpassed by Google’s IPO at the time.
That said, Jack Ma’s amazing vision is now, realistically, positioned well to consummate just such a purchase.
Alibaba’s Ma ‘Very Interested’ in Buying Yahoo
Ma said he’s had discussions with Yahoo, as well as other potential buyers, without identifying them. The executive, whose company is 40 percent owned by Yahoo, spoke at an event at Stanford University near Palo Alto, California.
Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Let me repeat myself at the risk of sounding crude, “I told you so.”
No Federal program is ever going to rescue the economy or people’s futures from their failed pasts. Never. It is inherently, sociologically impossible. This is just another failed social program created for one purpose only: to buy votes. Only this time it failed before the deal could be consummated.
U.S. Mortgage-Aid Program Is Shutting Down, With Up to $500 Million Unspent
“They dragged and dragged their feet,” Mr. Frank said in an interview. “I believe it was not one of their priorities.”
The combination of these rules, housing counselors said, disqualified a large number of people who had gone through their savings and fallen behind on mortgage payments. Nor have all of the applicants who met the qualifications been approved for the loan.
When called to “testify” in front of Congress it’s not like being asked, “Did you wash your hands? Did you use soap?” by your mommy. How does Google *not* “cook the search results” would be a more accurate question and elicit better honesty. Like my mom used to ask, “Which soap did you use when you washed your hands?” No getting around that one, if that bar of soap was not wet … you just got busted.
So, Google, which soap did you use?
Schmidt denies Google ‘cooks’ search results, says it serves the users
As Google’s Eric Schmidt testifies before a Senate committee inquiring into the company’s search practices, he is facing many questions about the way that its search product works.
To this, Schmidt replied:
First, we built search for users, not websites, and no matter what we do, there will always be some websites unhappy with where they rank. Search is subjective, and there‟s no “correct” set of search results. Our scientific process is designed to provide the answers that consumers will find most
useful.
To this end, Schmidt was saying that certain answers, like stock results and maps, would simply be delivered straight to the consumer instead of being delivered as a result that led to another site. Schmidt said that this was in order to serve the consumer faster with the information that they required.
