AndyBeal / Upcoming
A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house.The resident decided that simply submitting a removal request was too easy–and lacked any kind of chance for a settlement from Google–so the case is now [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Today I wish I were a political blogger. I supposedly had a ticket to the Democratic Convention, which fell through. Then I had the misfortune (in this situation) to live in a state that didn’t get a lot of tickets. Some lucky bloggers - one from each state - were also part of the State [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Today’s Picks are just too good, so let’s jump right in.Researchers used Google Earth to study the alignment of 8510 cows around the world and discovered they tend to align themselves with Earth’s north-south magnetic fields. Sounds udderly ridiculous to me! Maybe a better use of Google Earth from Olympic gold medallist Kristin Armstrong. [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Don’t mess with the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority! Pedantic is its middle name and it’s well versed in the ancient art of filament-slicing.According to the Guardian, it took just two complaints about an Apple iPhone TV advertisement (watch it here) for the watchdog to take action and ban the ad.The Advertising Standards Authority received two [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Yesterday, we talked about the importance of A/B and multivariate testing. Google offers Website Optimizer (for free) and now we learn just how much the search engine eats its own dog food.Here’s an A/B experiment that Google has conducted. See if you can spot the difference.Page 1:Page 2:Yeah, I didn’t spot it either, but apparently [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
In case you’ve not yet bought a copy of Radically Transparent, or perhaps you just need a reputation management refresher, you can check out an interview I did recently with MarketingSherpa.Consider it a mini-guide to managing an online reputation crisis. In it, I discuss the following seven steps in detail:Tip #1: Perform an honest self-analysisTip [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Usability guru and best-selling author Bryan Eisenberg is back with another great book. Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer sees Eisenberg team up with John Quarto-vonTivadar, and Lisa T. Davis to deliver the definitive guide to Google’s web page multivariate testing tool.I’ve just finished reading Always Be Testing which finally opened [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
If you’re following me on Twitter, you’d have read my reaction to news that Google Suggest had finally made its way to Google’s homepage search box.Turns out, that’s probably the biggest news of the day. Today really is a slow news day. I’ll keep digging for something worthy of your brilliant mind, but in the [...]
read more »
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
Discuss Add this link to... Bury
A+ Computer Professionals is a group of Certified technicians and webmasters, working out of the Berkshires of Massachusetts, since 1996.
