Have you ever been to one of those gas stations along the highway– the one that can charge $7 a gallon because the nearest gas is 40 miles away? They can charge whatever they want. Until recently, there was no other place in Boulder for stringing tennis racquets. 22-year-old CU grad, Matt Prater, has a […]
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My hat is off to Kara and Walt for warning readers of All Things Digital about tracking cookies on their site. Today, it seems that surfing the web is akin to wading naked into a mosquito-infested swamp. You can’t avoid getting stung, but you have no choice– your home is in the middle of this
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I was at Reebok headquarters the other day meeting with their social team, when I noticed a shoe drop box. Donate your old shoes in any condition, to help the half a billion kids worldwide that don’t have any shoes. It was from Soles4Souls and one of the many outlets that have helped the organization
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I met this fellow Jason Stephens on fiverr.com. He did a killer impersonation of Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken, which you can listen to here. Yes, I got this for only $5. And, no, this is not a paid endorsement. I was so thrilled working with him that I wrote this blog post in gratitude.
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Our client ran a Groupon campaign last Friday for his laser hair removal practice and here is what he has to say: Like most business owners who supply an elective service, we have had to work twice as hard for half the margin over the last several months. We have been working with Groupon
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Just over 2 years ago we began promoting our business Deep Roots LLC using the internet. Our business focuses on creating custom outdoor living spaces and landscaping in the Birmingham, Alabama area. Not knowing what kind of results to expect, we wanted to keep our cost down … so we decided to do the work
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Did you know that if you paste your Facebook fan page url into your status bar, it not only allows you to choose what thumbnail picture to include but also shows how many fans the page has? While we don’t have concrete evidence here, I’d have to think that a page with 2,000 fans will
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Many folks speculate why Google has overtaken Yahoo! in search or why Facebook has dominated in social networking, versus Friendster. I believe there’s one key factor— if you’re running a technology company, you need a technologist at the helm. Larry and Sergey of Google were Ph Ds (or about to be) in Computer Science. The
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Apple iAd Steve Jobs demo Did you see the above video? In it, Steve Jobs is showing off the new Apple iAds, a direct competitor to Google AdSense and other ads that “just suck” on mobile devices. For the desktop, “search is where it’s at,” asserts Jobs– but mobile devices are about apps, not search.
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Whoa, I just logged into my Google Analytics and see it in Korean. I hadn’t changed my browser’s language settings, logged in as another user, or had dinner at my favorite Korean restaurant. I have seen this kind of unexpected personalization from Facebook before, where sometimes they change your language settings based on where you’re
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