While it’s easy to talk about the realm of smartphone operating systems as if there were only two competitors (Google and Apple, with the Android and iPhone systems, respectively), it’s a fair deal more complicated. In the U.S. alone, Google is only the number two competitor, while Apple is in third place, with RIM (the [...]
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Google Hiring in 2011 to Break Company Records
Google has a lot of projects on the books. They are developing their various platforms with furious tenacity, with major projects — including Google Hotpot, Google Voice, Google Docs, and Gmail — all receiving frequent updates. More importantly, Google has a lot of projects coming down the line. Two of these are of special note: [...]
Google Provides On-Premise Message Backup with “Continuity”
When Google acquired Postini back in 2007, their objective was to both improve their internal messaging technologies and help develop new, value-oriented projects. One of the most noteworthy projects of that nature has now been completed and released to the market. Its objective is to create a backup system for companies who are using on-premise [...]
Keith Olbermann and Twitter: Can His Job Be Saved?
What does an outspoken, lively, but controversial political talk show figure do when his radio program is suspended because of his political choices? He tweets about it, of course! Keith Olbermann’s Twitter account may help save his job (not likely), and increase his popularity. The MSNBC talk show host was suspended from the station after [...]
Making your content Del.icio.us
[Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) is the most popular bookmarking service on the web. By getting on the Del.icio.us [popular](http://del.icio.us/popular/) or [hotlist](http://del.icio.us) page you could get thousands of visitors coming to your website within minutes. Here are some ways that I have found that can help your content get on these pages.
URLs Matter in Social Bookmarking
Although URLs play an important role for search engine optimization, they also play an important role in [social bookmarking](http://neothoughts.com/2006/08/15/urls-matter-in-social-bookmarking/). One of the most important factors to maximizing your exposure on [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) and other social bookmarking sites is the URL of a website.
Traffic comparison of StumbleUpon, digg and del.icio.us
During the second week of September I wrote a post called [My 50 favorite design resources](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/my-50-favorite-design-resources.html) that got traffic as a result of [StumbleUpon](http://www.stumbleupon.com), [digg](http://www.digg.com) and [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us). The article received 11350 visitors from StumbleUpon, 8879 from digg and 2715 from del.icio.us. As a result here are my observations regarding the visitors and overall traffic:
My experience with Dell’s homepage
Recently I was roaming around looking for computers and landed on [Dell's website](http://www.dell.com). I noticed that their homepage had been [realigned](http://alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign/) since the last time I saw it. Obviously, Dell.com gets a lot of traffic, so I started wondering why their homepage has gotten worse with this recent change.
