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The Way of the Web

By Chris | November 11, 2008

Welcome back!The web has been in a state of transition since it began. Remember the first site that you saw, with Times New Roman text and recangular images? We’ve come a long way since then. Broadband and wifi brought a huge leap forward in web technology because sites loaded faster and we were no longer [...]

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Austin Ad Fed Luncheon

By Chris | September 11, 2008

I had an opportunity today to attend the Austin Advertising Federation luncheon. This is one of the first industry functions that I’ve been able to attend, and I am now looking forward to more. The speakers were Bill Leake and Brian Combs of Apogee Search. The topic was why so many agencies struggle with search [...]

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Shorter URLs

By Chris | September 4, 2008

The list of URL shortening tools is growing. The first one that I heard of was TinyURL, and I thought it was genious. All of a sudden sending Google Maps and books on Amazon was no sweat. Before this came along emailing long URL strings to less savvy surfers like my Mom or brother was [...]

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Google Suggest

By Chris | August 29, 2008

The web is all abuzz about one of Google’s recent releases, Google Suggest. Yahoo has been doing this for months with their search assistant. As a web user I am lazy, so of course I’d like to type as little as possible. If you show me what I’m looking for as I start typing it, [...]

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