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Archive for March, 2009

Here’s a rather dry but informative video that tackles the oft subtle differences between White Hat, Grey Hat and Black Hat link building methods:

Obama just took the initiative to ask the general public to submit questions to him online, others members of the general public will read the questions and rate them. The President will ask some of the most popular and well rated.
This article resume’s after the video:

This online interaction between President and Citizens is a lot like the traditional means. I don’t why the guy in the interview seems obsessed with marijuana, but he has the point all wrong, in fact he’s proving my point.
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Dream Designs by Texx Smith has launched another Web Design special.
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You just never know where the next big fundraiser is going up on the internet next. One things is for sure, putting more resources into your internet presence is a must just to keep up.

To all local and state level Politicians. It’s time to play catch up or loose it all to new challengers.
Here’s some younger republicans driving home the point that they can and will put more effort into internet marketing so as not to be bested in the future.

One thing they seem to be aware of is that 12-6 months before an election is the time to begin internet marketing in earnest.

Read about the Last big google update in the months right before an election that set this practice as a tradition with google and other search engines. It’s called the Florida Update (ironic name).

Note they are also touting only a few of the successes their opponents have been having by using internet marketing and great web applications to raise funds and get their message to the people. I can’t blame them, I like to talk about the future myself.

If your a local or state level politician in any party here in Florida. You need to contact us today. Why today? It takes time to develop an internet presence using natural search engine results. If you wait until right before an election, you will have to much more money into paid advertising, which people trust less.

There is a growing business practice in my industry that I must reluctantly speak on. With the economy doing so poorly and this practice working so well, it’s becoming more prevalent. Underbidding. There are two types of underbids, Intentional and unintentional. Today I’ll speak on:

Intentionally Underbidding.
This is when a company makes a bid on a project that is less than what they can do it for and less than what they actually intend on charging you.
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Over in Europe they seem to care a little more about encouraging competition than they do here in the states. Even though the courts have ruled Microsoft has an illegal monopoly, the justice department dropped all legal action against them shortly after G. W. Bush took office.

The EU on the other hand saw one of their cases through to the end. At issue in this article is Microsoft’s illegal bundling of Internet Explorer 8 with all versions of Windows. This is unfair not because they are giving something away for free, but because they not made it possible for OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers) or computer owners to remove Internet Explorer. Plus other action designed to reduce or eliminate competitors. Like buying Netscape Navigator and then selling it to AOL on the condition that they never release a new version of it again and discontinue use and support of it after a period of time. Another trick they would do is to refuse to sell or sell at an inflated price Windows to OEM’s that installed a different browser before they sold it to a customer. Nice guys whuh?

A couple years ago the EU order Microsoft to (amongst other things they also haven’t complied with) to stop shipping Windows with IE included. Instead of doing it, they just paid millions upon millions in fines. Once the adoption of Vista slowed to the point where it looks like there won’t be a significant amount of sales, they complied, sort of.

Now Enter Windows 7, the next version of Windows. It is required legally to not have IE included it. Yet it does. Microsoft is now trying to say they are complying by having a check box buried deep in their control panel that lets you “Turn off”" the dreaded IE8 (which purposely displays web pages that are written specifically for IE8 improperly, and yes if you write it for IE8 it won’t work right in any other browser, most of the time). If you find this cleverly hidden check box (it will surely be moved and relabeled right before the official launch). You must re-boot the computer twice. After all that it still doesn’t remove IE! It’s still there, perhaps even running (that’s unknown at this point), just the .exe is gone.

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