At the end of each week, I clean up my desktop as usually there’s no more room for any icons. I take a slash and burn approach - and sometimes good stuff gets deleted.
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Naming your PDFs
Search engine use survey
The number of people using search engines daily has increased from around one-third in 2002, to just under 50% this year.
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Shady SEO services
If you have engaged the services of an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) professional and have no idea what they are up to - watch out!
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Computing in the cloud
It seems we’ve come full circle. Before the PC, computers were usually dumb terminals hooked into a networked mainframe. Sound familiar?
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New payment processing service
Amazon launched it’s PayPal competitor last week, called Checkout by Amazon. Like PayPal, it’s a complete third party payment processing service that leverages the company’s well known and trusted name.
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Chinglish in the online world
I love visiting Chinese ecommerce sites; just to read the copy of their English pages. There’s something wonderfully refreshing, child-like and innocent about Chinese marketing translated to English - an effervescence, even if “Chinglish” does tend to murder our language.
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Small biz owners ignoring security
A recent survey by McAffee found that many small business owners felt their operations were too small to worry about cybercrime, yet a third of small and medium businesses in Northern America have been the target of cybercrims repeatedly over the past three years.
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India’s online population growth
Recent figures from ComScore show that more than 28 million people in the country went online during May - a 27 percent increase over just a year ago.
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PPC fraud statistics
The click fraud rate was 16.2 percent for Q2 2008, down a smidgen from the first quarter of this year, but still higher than the same period last year.
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Lulu now in Australia!
If you’re based in Australia, Southeast Asia or New Zealand and have considered self publishing, no doubt the cost made your head spin.
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