Archive for May, 2010
Google TV – What it means for Search
May 26th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

Recently Google came out with a direct competitor to TiVO called “Google TV.” Google TV is revolutionary in that it solves a big problem facing today’s internet users.

Facebook Heads to Washington for Privacy Briefing
May 25th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

In light of Facebook’s announcement of new privacy controls, Facebook bigs like Mark Zuckerberg are flying to Washington, DC to discuss issues like policy changes and try to influence legislators that what Facebook is doing is legal. They are specifically inviting House and Senate staff to the Capitol Visitors Center in order that they “learn [...]

New Google Chrome Internet Browser now comes out for Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems
May 25th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

Earlier today, Google announced on Chrome’s blog that it’s Chrome browser has now been released for Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems. This is great as it allows computer users of all kinds to enjoy the worlds fastest GUI browser. According to the blog article, the new browser supports HTML 5 features like “Geolocation APIs, App [...]

Facebook Starting to Shape Up – Privacy Settings, Conversion Tracking
May 25th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

Facebook, the world’s most popular hacked social networking website, has made a couple of changes that will make it not only more secure, but will allow for one to track ones return on investment (ROI) on Ad Spend. Last February, an article on “allFacebook” announced that a beta version of Ad Conversion Tracking was released [...]

World Cup 2010 Has Gone Social
May 23rd, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

Social Media has affected world events in that one can get a feel of how it affects many. A major recent news topic has been The World Cup of Soccer. This is a noteworthy topic in that not only does sports have a major impact on societal behaviour, but this is one of the events [...]

Social Media Optimization – The Newest Trend in Internet Advertising
May 21st, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

In an article from Pi Business Research, the writers mention that search engines are no longer the primary method of getting traffic to your site. Social bookmarking tools, blogs, and social networks are rapidly becoming more popular. For example, a story on a social website like Facebook or YouTube can bring more website traffic to [...]

Search Engine Marketing Rap with SEO Rapper
May 18th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

We finally found a surprisingly clever way to get people to listen about the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The below rap video sums up Search Engine Optimization in a nutshell. The rapper’s site is on http://theseorapper.com, and the site has some other intriguing SEO rap videos worth watching. Enjoy…

Plans for Firefox 4
May 12th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

An article on Mashable featured a slideshow that described in detail what certain plans for Firefox 4 were. Some of the features seemed to mimic Google Chrome’s layout and functionality, while some were newer and more innovative. Firefox has always been the one browser to appeal to both end-users and web/firefox developers alike. They were [...]

Google AdWords Launches New Broad Match Modifier
May 11th, 2010 by iRISEmedia Staff

Earlier today, Google Adwords on their blog announced that they will be adding a new feature on Adwords, available at this time only to Canadian and United Kingdom residents, called “Modified Broad Match.” The way traditional “broad match” has worked in the past is that, adding a keyword phrase without quotations allows for certain words [...]