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StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing

By affaholic on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | No Comments

On Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012, we published an article discussing some changes StumbleUpon made during their recent redesign which removed source links from their content pages and forced all users to view content from the site through an iframed toolbar, which they could not close if they were logged… Please visit Search Engine Land for the [...]

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What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers

By affaholic on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments

What can a well-run shoe store teach you about your own online business? Well, everything. If you’ve ever bought anything from the mega online shoe store Zappos, or if you’ve so much as heard them mentioned, the word that comes to mind is probably service. But there’s more to the Zappo’s secret sauce than free [...]

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What Say You About Scheduled Tweets

By affaholic on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | No Comments

What Say You About Scheduled TweetsThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Yesterday’s post about using a tool called Buffer to schedule Tweets throughout the day had some folks cheering and some folks suggesting that scheduled Tweets ruined the conversation on Twitter and were kind of bot like. What’s your thinking on this. Take the quick [...]

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Apple, Foxconn and Chinese Workers – It’s All About Context

By affaholic on Monday, January 30th, 2012 | No Comments

The New York Time recently ran a fascinating article on why Apple builds all its stuff in China. This has brought renewed calls about low wages, child labour, working conditions, employee suicides, buy American, boycott Apple, etc. My question is, why are they focusing on Apple and Foxconn? Apple is not the only company building [...]

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

By affaholic on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 | No Comments

It’s time to pay attention to Google+. Back in July, I Blogged about Google‘s foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whether or not it would be able to compete in a Facebook world. Back in [...]

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Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search

By affaholic on Friday, January 27th, 2012 | 2 Comments

The debate about what should — and shouldn’t — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I’d like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else: how it appears Google is taking its eye off the ball of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the [...]

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