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May 13, 2011
GIT: A BEGINNER’S STORY
My Personal Story I hadn’t planned on applying for an internship this summer and instead was going to wait until Spring 2012, but I found an amazing opportunity through my university to join the team at Globe Runner SEO. The description of the job sounded exactly like what I wanted to do for my career path, so I updated my resume and sent in an application.
May 13, 2011
WELL PLAYED: LILLY PULITZER’S FACEBOOK FAN STAMPEDE
Popular amongst women of all ages, Lilly Pulitzer has been a long-standing symbol of fun, feminine fashion including their hallmark product- the brightly colored shift. One particular consumer segment received a big gift from the Lilly Pulitzer brand when the company developed a line of bags and accessories in custom-designed sorority prints.
May 9, 2011
MAY 2011 FACEBOOK PLATFORM UPDATES
If you’re trying to develop a Facebook application. Recently, Facebook has provided a new feature for developers: The ability to create test users.
April 29, 2011
REMOVING CONTENT FROM GOOGLE
One piece of online reputation management is removing defamatory content from Google. Kenton J.
April 25, 2011
ARE BLOGGERS MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN CELEBRITIES?
A new study developed by BlogHer and Ketchum PR suggests that blogs are more influential than celebrity ads when women make purchase decisions. The popular community for female bloggers has put out studies of online interaction for the past four years, but this one has profound significance and a provocative outcome.
March 2, 2011
PAKISTANI CITIZEN BECOMES ACCIDENTAL JOURNALIST
An IT Consultant in Pakistan tweeting about loud noises and a random helicopter unwittingly provided live coverage of the raid US Navy SEALs led on Osama Bin Laden’s that ended in Bin Laden’s death. Sohaib Althar has become an unlikely folk hero since his tweets about this event were discovered.
February 21, 2011
TWITTER REDESIGNS ITS INTERFACE
If you are like most Twitter users, you usually access Twitter through a third-party application. Some use browser-based services like Hootsuite, while many prefer desktop applications like Tweetdeck.
February 18, 2011
USER AGENT SWITCHER LIST
Optimizing for mobile devices requires you to be able to test your website against different user agents. A “User agent” is a piece of metadata that describes browser or device that it’s being rendered or viewed upon.
February 7, 2011
GOOGLE MAKES SEARCH MORE SOCIAL
As more and more players enter into the search engine market, the only way to win market share is to innovate; come out with new features, or make your search engine faster. Recently Google did this, when it unveiled Google Instant, showing results as you search, shaving on average 2-3 seconds off of a search.