In a direct response to Vice and PCMag’s article on Avast Antivirus, Avast’s Corporate Board and CEO Ondrej Vlcek ceased operation of their data subsidiary Jumpshot. It seems that core mission of Avast cannot be uncorrupted by the sale of their user’s data.
“I realize the recent news about Jumpshot has hurt the feelings of many of you, and rightfully raised a number of questions – including…
In a move that confused many in the SEO community, Google expanded upon the rel=”nofollow” attribute to include: sponsored content, user generated content, and good old fashioned nofollow.
Danny Sullivan, Search Liaison at Google, has stated that this will help Google better identify paid content across the web. Presumably, the more sites that identify sponsored content the easier it will be…
A recent graduate from Mercer Island HS, and currently enrolled at Bellevue College, Kellan Thai has done digital marketing for a local dentist managing their AdWords account, and a few other digital marketing tasks as assigned.
Kellan has been with us for about a month helping out with WordPress development and developing campaigns for Google Ads.
In a move that seemed to catch everyone by surprise, Automattic/WordPress acquired WordPress yesterday. A merger that was quite the opposite of an incredibly hyped acquisition by Yahoo.
It was only 2014 when Tumblr was acquired by Yahoo and newly hired CEO Marissa Mayer at a valuation of $1.1B. At the time the deal looked very positive, Yahoo was trying not to look old in Silicon Valley, and…
Thanks to everyone who could attend our event last Wednesday at Google Partners Connect. One of the best presentations we have hosted in two years of Partners Connect events. Mobile is becoming so pervasive that the average person checks their phone over a 150 times a day now.
That’s about every six minutes. Getting food, ordering rides, checking in on the kids, shopping, and just about…
A few weeks ago we did an SEO Audit for our new client, buddingSTEM. We are going to share some of our findings and demonstrate the opportunities that an SEO Audit can find on your website.
buddingSTEM is a clothing line for girls with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. When these moms couldn’t find clothes for their girls they decided to get into business to fill this demand.…
We are seeking a savvy wordsmith and inbound marketer to join our blogging team. Candidates must have a knack and love for writing, a comprehensive understanding of the industry, and experience in blogging to achieve business goals. The blogger will be expected to sustain and develop the company’s voice across all blog content.
Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
Unless you count basic awareness of search engines keyword research is the first step in SEO. Before you can optimize your pages for search you need to know what people are searching for. Keyword research can be simple or complex. Starting with simplest keyword research:
Google Search Page – This is the most basic of all but there is a wealth of information by looking at the type of search result…
So a story in Businessweek caught my eye the other day. It discussed NYC taxi rider tipping habits and concluded that riders usually tip between 20% and 25% using the histogram below:
Their plot showed bumps at 20%, 25% and 30%, the default tip options on the credit card readers in cabs,…
This actually has to do with price floors and some tricky maths used to calculate cab fares and additional tolls. It’s complicated.
Nature effortlessly pairs colors together that work. So darn well. The different shades of green on a leaf. The browns in wood grain.
As designers, nature, then, is a powerful tool. We can “borrow” its color combinations to inspire our own designs.
Adobe just put out a new free tool to help you do that: Color. It’s a mobile app as well as website app that generates color schemes automatically from images you upload.
Here are some color schemes generated from a few of the pictures we took in our recent travels. Hope you enjoy :-)
There’s another lunar eclipse this year and it’s happening tomorrow night! (That’s Tuesday night — in other words the wee hours of Wednesday morning). Europe and Africa will be left out this time around, but viewers in North America and Asia will get the chance to see the moon pass through the earth’s shadow. Details from NASA here.
This eclipse is extra special because it might be a rare selenelion.
Don’t ask me how to pronounce that word, but here’s what it means: the refraction of light through Earth’s atmosphere makes both sun and moon appear higher in the sky then they really are. So at moonset/sunrise on Wednesday morning, a few lucky observers east of the Mississippi might glimpse the sun and the eclipsed moon AT THE SAME TIME! Geometrically impossible, and well worth setting your alarms for.
I put approximate moonset times in this GIF, but you should look up the specific schedule for your location here.
Send your photos of the ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse to our science desk Tumblr editors at nprskunkbear@gmail.com.
