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Last April, Facebook presented to the world its new Open Graphic protocol. This feature would give web developer and Gurus a couple of things to work with. The “Like” Button to install on the website. Which would allow Facebook users to acceptance of the page. The second feature would be a set of tags (source [...]

Promoting your business in Google, Google Maps, and in other major services that utilize geo-targeted advertising is a smart strategy for locally owned and operated small businesses today. It is essential that small businesses today get on board with local marketing and advertising techniques in order to ensure that consumers can find them when they [...]

So what’s like, this like, Facebook LIKE stuff about really?  Like seriously, gag me with a spoon!  Are we flashing back to like, the 80′s here? No, it’s the new millennial brainchild of Facebook in their quest to maintain their bigger than Google status.  Yes, people spend more time on Facebook pages today than they do in [...]

Twitter launched their first ad service today called Promoted Tweets.  Twitter is starting with a few ad partners; Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users.  Visitors to Twitter.com will see Tweets promoted by [...]

Apple knows that we hate commercials.  Yes, while Apple has some of the best commercials in the industry with their “Get a Mac” campaign, ultimately at the end of the day the know that we all hate commercials. So when it came time to debut the iPad, Apple turned to a popular half hour sitcom on ABC. [...]

$6.3 billion was spent in the 4th quarter of 2009. This is the largest amount ever spent in online advertising in a single quarter, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). Despite the economy, Internet advertising, and especially Local Internet Marketing are breaking all the records. As consumers spend more and more time on sites like YouTube, [...]

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You would think that CNN would be worried about Fox News.  According to a recent question-and-answer session with BusinessWeek, Klein specifically states, “We want to be the most trusted source,” and, “I’m more worried about the 500 million or so people on Facebook versus the 2 million on Fox.” This comes just a few weeks after [...]

A couple of months ago, we were likely the very first to tell you about the Google “Live Search.”  This would display real time twitter tweets and facebook messages about popular search terms on Google.  This came on the heals of Bing being the first to bring real-time search to web search results. Yahoo was [...]

The FCC has released a new study that confirms the significant growth of Internet usage amoung adults in the United States who are using the Internet. 78 percent of adults are Internet users, whether that means broadband, dial-up, access from home or access from someplace other than home. 74 percent of adults have access at home. 67 [...]