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Groupon’s IPO Filing and Google Offers

June 4, 2011

On Wednesday, I wrote about the new Google Offers beta test in Portland. Today on TechCrunch, Rocky Agrawal writes “Why Daily Deals Are Becoming A Raw Deal,” expertly analyzing the cost of a deal to a merchant and why it isn’t all that for a consumer either. Good stuff. An excerpt:

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Google Offers Takes on Groupon – Why It Will Work for Google

June 1, 2011

Google today announced a beta test of Google Offers, which is taking on Groupon and other coupon/offering startups head-on. Now, not every Google roll-out is a wild success (see Buzz and Wave), but Google has a few things going for it that give Offers a leg up.

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On Testing Plugins

April 7, 2011

WordPress has a fantastic developer community that creates all sorts of amazing add-on’s and functionality for websites. One plugin I’ve used very successfully is Redirection, which is particularly helpful when you relaunch a new site where the page and post URLs change. For instance we used it to redirect over 2,000 posts on The Ojai [...]

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Google Broadband Project Lands In… Kansas City

March 30, 2011

Last year, Google announced an initiative to bring an ultra high-speed broadband network to a chosen city in the United States, and the response was off the hook. Over 1,100 cities applied and many went the extra, ahem, last mile, bringing together politicians, celebrities, business leaders and more. Take for instance this Google rally in [...]

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Google Instant A-Z: Single Letter Searches & Big Brands

September 10, 2010

Google Instant arrived this week – if you haven’t seen it in action, log in to your google account or gmail, and go to google.com. Search results change and shift with every keystroke of your search, and Google starts delivering results with the very first keystroke. So I compiled a list of results for single [...]

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Arcade Fire, HTML5 and Google

August 30, 2010

HTML5 is a structure for coding websites. One of the exciting possibilities it presents is support for a lot of functionality that has previously required third-party browser plug-ins, such as video and drag-and-drop. It appears to have gotten a kickstart when Apple locked out Flash from the iPhone and iPad. So Google worked with the [...]

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Firefox Tab Candy – Truly Exciting Software

July 27, 2010

Holy cow, this looks fantastic – view the next-generation browser from the Firefox team, incorporating a feature set they call Tab Candy.   Organization into groups, multiple profiles, searchable notes, sharing of tabs and groups of tabs, concurrent browsing – some absolutely incredible features.

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New Search Engine Optimization Client Video

July 10, 2010

What sometimes happens… I heard about search engine optimization. Can you make me number one on the google by putting the keywords on my site?

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How Does Google Work?

June 30, 2010

…and what else does Google have its fingers into? Aaron Wall and PPCBlog put together a fantastic flowchart showing how Google works.  As Aaron prefaces it, this probably won’t be accurate in the years to come, because Google is on such a rapid development path.  It might not even be accurate by the end of [...]

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Free AT&T Wifi at Starbucks

June 14, 2010

Finally. Starbucks Corp. will make wireless Internet service free at all U.S. stores starting July 1, eliminating a $3.99 fee for two hours of access. The move comes several months after McDonald’s Corp. also dropped all access fees on wireless Internet service, as the fast-food chain sought to make its restaurants a more suitable place [...]

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