If you were around during the early days of the Internet, you might remember search engines like Archie and Veronica, MUDS, and the writer Sherry Turkle. As our generation grappled with our lives being dramatically altered by new ways of interacting with machines, communications, and wasting time, Turkle was putting in real brain power to the issues. Read the rest of this entry »
I usually highlight some noteworthy topics, posts, and other industry information within the PPC Buzz every week. So I decided to push these ideas to the back burner for one week and focus on something a little more upbeat and creative: how an internet marketer knows they’ve been in PPC way too long. I must admit that I got this idea from several Tweets I’ve seen lately, so I’ll try to give as much as credit as possible to any that I saw come through my Twitter feed. That said, below are just some of the many ways in which PPC consumes our lives as PPC specialists….
It must be in the air with Valentine’s Day right around the corner. Danielle Hearts Wordpress and I am infatuated with Foursquare. Maybe we are just freely admitting ou true Geekiness, but I will confess too.
Foursquare has gotten under my skin. Even if I don’t quite “get” him yet. I think that is a part of the intrigue. Foursquare and I are just at the beginning of our relationship and I am not sure where it will go. It’s kind of nerve racking really. Foursquare is playing hard to get, making me wonder and keeping me on my toes.
Like so many of my internet infatuations, Foursquare gave me that special tingle right from the get go. I can’t even recall when I first heard about him whether it was some blog, or at the office. I t doesn’t matter anymore. I know I sought him out to see what the buzz was about. While I was curious, once I did meet him, I wasn’t sure what to do next.
He was on my desk top, out of his element, looking like little more than some cute Twitter like directory. I joined anyway. I had to know. And before I knew it, he had my profile.
I never thought it would happen but it has, I have officially fallen in love with WordPress. Yes, those of you around me that have been talking about how great it is, can now sit back and revel in fact that I am finally admitting it. I wave my little white flag as I type. My obsession has gotten so bad that, perhaps I need to start a WP Anonymous group. I know there are others of you are out there, enthusiastically popping into the back-end of your admin panel, seeing what other exciting plugins and new widgets you can add to your site.
Think hard for a second about what could possibly bring Google to its knees and reshape the paid search landscape. First thought that came to my mind… an act of God. In all seriousness though, I couldn’t really answer this question prior to reading this post by Laurie Sullivan. If Apple would exhibit the same technological savvy with a paid search platform that it is conducting with the iPhone and iPad, the possibilities for paid search could be endless. Would it bring Google down though? Probably not right away but it would be one heck of a battle and not some 3 round fight. I’m talking Ali – Frazier, Tyson – Holyfield (minus an ear of course), and other great bouts in history. But this is all speculation at this point.
