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Moodys Subprime Mortgage Rating Blamed on Software

Online BusinessBy patrick May 22, 2008 6 Comments

From the department of redundancy department and bureau of subprime management bureau, the largest debt ratings company blames 500 billion in losses to a programmer error. Nevermind the fact that Moody’s ratings were the same as the Standard and Poor’s debt ratings. Moodys wants you to believe that a computer was responsible for the subprime…

Ztail Social Product Pricing Network

Online Business, Web DevelopmentBy patrick May 20, 2008 2 Comments

Everyone talks about social networking, social marketing and online collaboration and these topics get lumped into the broad category web 2.0. Ztail is putting money where your social mouth is and has created a website to share pricing information for everything. Curious what your 1987 nintendo NES is worth? Wondering if you could actually sell…

Gmail Gets Sprited

Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick May 19, 2008 Leave a comment

Gmail has become my primary email application, and I have it open all day long. The Gmail blog recently announced speed improvements of 20% which will help me be 20% more productive! Google engineers reduced the weight of each server request itself by eliminating or narrowing the scope of some cookies. They changed all our…

Increase Ecommerce Site Visitor Conversions

Web DevelopmentBy patrick May 19, 2008 Leave a comment

Research shows that the highest performing site pages match exactly the motivation of a visitor, and that on retail websites most visitors fall into one of two categories: Hunters. They already know what they want and are looking for the quickest, easiest, and safest way to get it and go. Browsers. They may have ideas…

Title Tags Make or Break Your Business

Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick May 15, 2008 1 Comment

Here is a recent article from the Los Angeles times discussing title tags and the multi million dollar decisions that come from a properly worded title. The article is about the Hollywood film industry, but it could also be written about websites. It is not possible to overstate the importance of a good title. A…

Home Ownership Accelerator Mortgage

Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick May 15, 2008 Leave a comment

This is not a post about search engine optimization, I’m taking a slight detour to talk about a revolutionary new financial planning product from the home mortgage industry. This system combines all your checking, home loan and home equity line accounts into one master “loan sweep account” that automatically transfers all deposited cash against the…

Truly Funny Microsoft Search Ads

Search EnginesBy patrick May 13, 2008 Leave a comment

These MSN live search videos from Great Britain are 100x better than the MSN Live search Microsoft adcenter videos. These videos showcasing live.com search have real humor and are truly entertaining. I like the MSN search tagline: Search is changing… are you? Video: Live Search 1 – Plucky powered skates. British man’s eco-friendly scooter is…

Advanced Search in Gmail

Search EnginesBy patrick May 13, 2008 2 Comments

Right around the time I have advanced questions with a particular web service or product, I find a relevant blog post discussing this issue. This happened with Gmail.com this week, as I was trying to search through the mail archives. I knew Gmail must have slick search features, it was only a question of unlocking…

Adwords Triangulation Method

Search Engine Optimization, SpecialsBy patrick May 12, 2008 3 Comments

Dan Thies’ revolutionary “Adwords Triangulation Method” – and already MAKING MONEY using it. There’s still time to send folks to that video here Make sure users have commercial intent. Subject: 2x the clicks, 4.7x the sales (in just 3 days) Have you seen the comments on the new StomperNet “Going Natural 3.0” video? “Bloody fab!…

Danny SEO

Search Engine OptimizationBy patrick May 9, 2008 5 Comments

What do you get when you search for Danny the SEO – The logical answer would be Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand.com but this wouldn’t make an interesting blog post. Will the real Danny SEO please stand up.