April 1, 2014No Comments

GOOGLE calculates being mobile.

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Understanding the full value of Mobile for your business, by GOOGLE.

Constant connectivity through mobile has created 5 new paths to purchase that start on your customers’ smartphones. Learn how to measure the value they drive for your business.

1] In Store: Many people use their smartphones while they are on the go. Searching for store locations and getting directions to purchase in stores are common activities that drive significant value for businesses.

2] Calls: This may sound obvious but let's not forget:smartphones facilitate an action that is native to the device itself: phone calls. Customers sometimes prefer to purchase by phone.

3] Apps: Apps are a great way to enrich your relationship with your customers. App downloads and transactions that happen within your apps are 2 important sources of value from mobile.

4] Cross-Device: Consumers often use multiple devices to make a purchase, starting by researching on mobile and then waiting until they are on another screen to complete the transaction.

5] Responsive Mobile: Your customers expect a seamless experienceacross their devices and will purchase directly froma mobile optimized site. This is also known as"m-commerce."

Sources: Mobile by GOOGLE | GOOGLE Multi-Screen Resources | Inbound Marketing, HubSpot

March 25, 2014No Comments

GOOGLE scored 9 out of 10?

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Here is a list of websites with a PageRank of 10 out of 10. You guessed it! PageRank was named after one of the founders Larry Page. PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

This is an honor because Google themselves, along with Adobe, Apple, Facebook have only received a 9. Microsoft only got an 8...What is it about this list that gives them a 10?

Title
PageRank
URL
US Goverment Website
10
United States Department of Health and Human Services
10
Social Bookmarking Sharing Button Widget
10
EUA - European University Association
10
Universitas 21
10
Twitter
10
The White House
10

Source: SearchEngineGenie.com

March 13, 2014Comments are off for this post.

GOOGLE Fiber and Beyond

 

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With the talk of Google fiber coming to Charlotte, the BUZZ seems to be all about speed. I wanted to touch on the topic of current internet speeds and the future of internet connection speeds. The current speeds we have now are based on megabytes. Google Fiber is positioning themselves to bring gigabytes to Charlotte, that is just the beginning. The record for speed over a fiber line is a petabyte.

NEC and Corning, in January 2013, using a multi-core fiber, transmitted 1.05 petabits (FULL Story) ...WOW!!  The NEC team said at the time that its achievement indicated that transmission of one petabit per second – capacity equivalent to sending 5,000 HDTV videos of two hours in a single second.

Source: Wikipedia

 

March 5, 2014Comments are off for this post.

Our future with AR

Augmented Reality is definitely the future. Here is a company Layar.com. They seem to be pioneering the MAR space (Mobile Augmented Reality). Also check out this tech comapany, INNOVEGA. Amazing!!

February 24, 2014Comments are off for this post.

Oil Painting in Photoshop CC

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Here are some photos taken in Downtown Charlotte, smoothies and bowling at Strike City. This is a really nice and simple effect. Imagine getting favorite photos printed on canvass... Here is a tutorial on using the Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CC.