Web

If I had a dollar for every time a potential client told me how easy web development is, or asked me to estimate the re-development of a Facebook-like website after a ten minute phone call I could travel around the world for a couple months. It it was easy to estimate and develop web applications (or any IT project for that matter) over 60% of projects wouldn't fail.

Hopefully, if you’re making a decision on re-designing or building a new website for your company at least one of the criteria for selecting an agency is; 1. “Doe's the agency’s own web site reflect the same kind of results that are being proposed for your new website?" In other words, doe's the website design company or agency practice what they preach?

From the true inventor of the WWW, Tim Berners Lee talks at the 2009 TED conference about the importance of sharing linked data for the new horizons of the semantic Web. He challenges all individuals, enterprises and government entities to open their raw data sources to the Web. Tim believes that the next generation of the Web will be the linking of information from open data sources to correlate connections and relationships with objects and even concepts.

If you work in search engine optimization, or Internet marketing and you haven't been exposed to Drupal yet, it's a wonderful CMS for a variety of applications. Specific to this blog post, however, Drupal is a phenomenal platform for search engine optimization and Internet marketing. With the right modules installed and configured, Drupal can be a complete joy to work with for an SEO. Use the following as a guide for the best SEO and SEM modules to install for your Drupal website.

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Is traditional e-mail on it's way out? John C. Dvorak at PCMAG.com gives us 9 Reasons why E-mail is Dead. In some regards I do agree. It seems that social networking sites have already taken over traditional e-mail on a personal level but what about in the workplace? As John explains between all of the spam, junk and ever-changing email addresses "there is no real way of confirming receipt of an e-mail other than the annoying receipt request." But does social networking have enough credibility to really take over traditional e-mail in the workplace? Is e-mail really dead?

For now:

Friends: "I FaceBook'ed you."
Work: "I emailed you."

9 Reasons E-Mail is Dead

Way back in the day of Twitter (circa 2008, that is) a direct message was a good way to start a conversation and connect with a new follower. At the time, I thought they were an invaluable tool for driving traffic to a website and starting a flow of communication.

Then it all changed.

As a new (or even experienced) Twitter user, it can be hard at first to know who exactly you should be following. You can start with the Twitter Elite, those users who are deemed to be the elite of Twitter due to extravagant follower counts. The problem with following just the Twitter Elite, however, is that you’ll rarely be able to start a good conversation.

Came across all of these in my blog reading last night, there's some very interesting information here. I highly recommend you read and watch these. Your brain will thank me.

Advertising on the Edge

Why you should increase your marketing budget in a recession.

Snuggie Sightings - An Unlikely Marketing and Viral Success Story

By now you must have heard of them - the blankets with sleeves that keep you warm no matter what you're doing. Buy a Snuggie, and you can talk on the phone, eat a snack, read a book, or even cast spells, according to one YouTube parody video.