In light of recent events I found myself inescapably absorbing the news of the Boston Bombing via the internet as I worked. I often wonder how much the way I deal with the outer-world has changed simply because my main consumption of media happens to be via the computer and mobile, rather than the Television. [...]
I’m often curious as a webmaster to learn where my audience is hiding out on the internet. Why is this important? Why not just say “Facebook” and be done with? Well, I often find it easier to write and create content if I truly understand my audience. Recently I’ve been curating content based on where [...]
Webmasters, where do you stay ahead of the curve with developing new content for your website? You may want to take a look at the resources I collected for you today. The first, by Scott Cowley is an invaluable resource of algorithm based websites that will find you the latest news, scoops and trends to [...]
A year ago, Twitter started clamping down on moving avatars for profile images. Facebook at around the same time in their usual round of updates, also removed the access-ability of moving GIFs in the newsfeed. For a quick explanation, even though this is old news, this might explain to those who notice that there are some moving [...]
In previous articles I examined optimizing your websites for the increasing mobile and tablet audience viewership. Today I found an impressive collation of interactive ads presented by Advertising Age that had achieved huge click-through rates of somewhere up to 70% Top Interactive Ads – Advertising Age From adage.com - Today, 6:31 PM Adage: See Magazine Tablet [...]
How many of you were sad to see the announcement from Posterous yesterday? The news is that Posterous will be turned off at the end of April. For those of you that didn’t know, Posterous was one of the original personal content curation platforms. You could selectively autopost content via email and distribute it to [...]
A zombie apocalypse and web hosting having something in common? “No way,” you say? Well, let me ask you this; if a zombie apocalypse were to happen, and we were all thrust into a George Romero-esque post-apocalyptic world, what would your most pressing concern be? Not getting your various body parts eaten by zombies? Perhaps. [...]
