The $500,000 Google Picture Frame

Ever wonder what kind of Google Love you get when you spend over half a million dollars on Google AdWords in a given year? We manage some pretty sizable adWords accounts here, so it is always nice to see what Google is sending their big advertisers. Well, this year’s Google gift of choice is a digital picture frame with a Google logo on the bottom right. It is a pretty neat little device, about 5 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide. The whole thing is maybe a half inch thick not-including the stand in the back. It runs on either batteries or the AC adapter it comes with. It has quite a few features including: Rewind / Fast Forward / Stop / Play / Pause Record with internal mic Sound (small speaker in back) USB connection to computer SD Card Slot MMC Card Slot...

Ruby on Rails Used to Create 1999 Script!

Awesome! Ruby on Rails has been used to write another incredibly innovative script orginally programmed in 1999! Thats right, Ruby on Rails is Awesome. Unlike other platforms and languages for the web that have been used to seamlessly run web services for the last 10 years, Ruby on Rails allows you to create those same programs using Ruby on Rails! It is no wonder that programmers have been flocking to Ruby on Rails, kind of like lemmings! Lemmings are so cute! I bet that means that Ruby on Rails programmers are cute too! Check it Out! Facts about Ruby on Rails! 1. People who use Ruby on Rails are totally sweet. 2. Linux is secretely coded in Ruby on Rails and ported. 3. Ruby on Rails was used in the discovery of penicillin and in every Star Wars film except...

Is Your Site “On Theme”

After years of hearing clients, SEO talking-heads, and bloggers say the phrase “is your site on theme”, I decided that it was about time someone created a programmatic solution to this problem. To date, there has been a huge amount of discussion and disagreement about the role of “themes” (what does that mean anyway) in ranking web...

Google Changes HTML Output for Results Pages…

In a minor but still ever annoying change, Google decided to switch the “p class=g” tag with a “div class=g”. Apparently someone at google decided that yesterday would be a good day to break everyone’s scraper tools. No tags for this post.

Expiring Domain Tool…

With the advent of domain aging, often buying a used domain is better than starting from scratch. But here come the problems… 1. How do you find a domain that is about to expire? 2. Domain expiring lists are available to everyone, how do i find the ones that no one else has found? 3. How do I know that a domain is worth buying? 4. How long can it remain expired before it loses its value? Well, there is an easy solution to all three of these. You need to create a web application that finds domains before they expire and before they make it to the big expired domain names lists and then target them for backordering! So how do you do this? Create a web application that searches Google for your targeted keywords and checks every domain which pops up to...