Top 10 Toughest Jobs to Fill? The Top 3 Are In Search Engine Marketing
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
Top 10 Toughest Jobs to Fill? The Top 3 Are In Search Engine Marketing Here’s the best example of misleading statistics we’ve seen, outside of the ads skewering the mythical Cable Corp: “DirecTV - Cable Corp Inc. - Statistics” directed by Christopher Guest) “Whip up some numbers that make it look like we have, like, I don’t know, a thousand HD channels.” Today the WSJ blogged about the hardest jobs to fill based on an annual employment survey conducted by temp firm Manpower Inc. We all agree with the famous German ad shown here, “Life is too short to be in the wrong job.” Not surprisingly, the very temp-to-perm jobs Manpower specializes in ended up high on the Top 10 list of the 42,500 global companies surveyed. (Read the full post about ‘Top 10 Toughest Jobs to Fill? The Top 3 Are In Search Engine Marketing’…)
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Riding Out The Slowdown, Speeding Up Networks
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
With evidence mounting that the U.S. US economy is slowing down, you’d think it was a tough time to attract paying customers to a big IT conference.
Tough times are often the best time to invest in infrastructure.
Networks can provide competitive and productivity advantages that are even more important in lean times than in boom times. It’s those advantages that vendors of all sizes and shapes will be promoting at Interop in Las Vegas as it kicks off the week of April 28th.
Speed is a key theme this year with 10GbE networking gear offering the promise of greater bandwidth and help enterprise networks can do more.
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Is Microsoft Getting Stung by Slow Vista Sales?
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft announced another stellar quarter on Thursday — at least in terms of breaking its old record for revenues in the third fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended on March 31.
However, the quarterly tap dance that the company’s CFO typically performs for financial analysts didn’t impress many of them this time around. One of the reasons: lower sales of Windows clients.
In fact, revenues were indeed up, but not by much — the company brought in $14.45 billion for the quarter compared to $14.4 billion a year earlier. Earnings actually were down from a year earlier at $4.41 billion versus $6.89 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2007 — an unusual reversal of fortunes.
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Disaster Prep in The Age of Web 2.0
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
SAN FRANCISCO — When you do business on the Internet, redundancy is everything, according to Artur Bergman. But striving for “five-nines” uptime can be a waste of money.
Bergman, director of engineering for Wikia, shared some straight talk about operations at the Web 2.0 Expo, held this week in San Francisco. While his remarks reflected the Web 2.0 culture of good-enough applications and end-user debugging, he gave good advice for any company with a Web presence.
In July 2007, a surge on the power grid caused generators at 365 Main, a datacenter that serves many Web 2.0 startups in the area, to fail.
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Technical Analysis: S&P Pushes Resistance
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
Bulls continue to push higher in the wake of the recent Dow Theory bull signal, with the S&P (first chart below) trying to break out of a multi-month trading range here. Resistance on the S&P is 1406 and 1435, and support is 1370 and 1360. The Dow (second chart) has support at 12,743 and 12,530, and resistance is 13,000-13,100. The Nasdaq (third chart) faces resistance at 2475, 2500 and 2530-2540, and support is 2391-2400, 2350 and 2330. Finally, the dollar (fourth chart) is once again trying to bottom, but it hasn’t put much of a dent in commodity prices yet (fifth chart). Paul Shread is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and member of the Market Technicians Association. (Read the full post about ‘Technical Analysis: S&P Pushes Resistance’…)
Londoners faceoff online in support of their candidates for the Mayoral Election
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
Londoners faceoff online in support of their candidates for the Mayoral Election
If the popularity of Facebook fansites was an indicator of how Londoners will vote on May 1st then Boris would be a clear winner with 7466 supporters whilst Ken and Brian trail behind with 2152 and 2130 respectively. Thankfully it seems that Londoners will vote with their feet rather than faces but latest results from a social media study reveal that online PR strategies could count for something in the electoral race.
Nielsen Online revealed today that London Mayoral candidates Ken and Boris are top of the blogs, dominating 80% of the social media conversation.
Social Media Power: UC Berkeley Student Twitters Out of Egyptian Prison
Autor admin | 26.04.2008 | Category SEO
Social Media Power: UC Berkeley Student Twitters Out of Egyptian Prison
CNN is reporting that Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. The “twit” (messages) communicated to his “tweeple” (friends) on micro blogging platform "Twitter," resulted in pals hiring a lawyer. Buck twittered all during the experience, the transcript of which is visible here. This is yet another case study speaking to the societal power of modern networking tools.
There is a lot of passion regarding Twitter in the search marketing community, with top SEOs/social media pros like Lee Odden and DoshDosh having dozens or even hundreds of “followers.”
Respected link builder Jennifer Laycock has written extensively regarding applications of the platform.