http://blog.sageinternet.com Web Design, Programming, SEO, Social Media Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:48:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google launched its "instant" search today, touting its ability to speed up the search experience so much that it will save its users 111 years per day. But what is it? Google Instant predicts what you are searching for based on the partial search phrase you have typed in and instantly provides ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/seo/google-results-for-the-impatient/ [caption id="attachment_1533" align="alignright" width="168" caption="I'm on a boat!"][/caption] I’ve written lots about Foursquare for retailers, this post is focused on how you as a consumer or end user can use it. But first… What is it? Foursquare is a location-based social networking application for “smartphone” mobile devices (currently Blackberry, iPhone, and Android) and ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/foursquare/ It has been a few weeks since I did an update on using Klout to achieve a business goal so I thought I would take a few moments to spread some wisdom and findings. Since the last post we have successfully moved our Klout Classification from an Explorer to Activist, which ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/klout-reach-business-goals-part-2/ Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, is one of the most popular photo storage and sharing sites on the web. It's free, easy to use & offers a variety of methods for sorting, categorizing and tagging images. People can comment on and rate pictures, and photos can be made private or ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/flickr-marketing/ If you are still skeptical about how this social media "fad that the kids are doing" can have any business application whatsoever, a recent Gartner report should convince you otherwise. Gartner's survey found that most people's purchases are influenced by social networks, the inference being that companies not marketing using social ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/proof/ Many of the online marketing and social media campaigns I see these days focus on the big three networks; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Occasionally a smattering of Flickr, and some social bookmarking sites and of course YouTube, which is the one I want to talk about today. YouTube is the most popular ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/miscellaneous/youtube/ I've been on Linkedin since March 2005 and today I learned something new about one of the oldest networking sites on the web. In the 5 years that I've been using Linkedin I've never actually "disconnected" (the Twitter equivalent of "unfollow") from someone, until today. I have to admit I ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/learning/ Amazon has just taken the first step towards Borg-style consciousness that we knew was coming. You can now link your Amazon account with your Facebook account. If you click on the "recommendations" link when you are logged into your Amazon profile, you will now be greeted with an option to link ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/friends-buy-amazon/ ...it's so true. This video with Seth Godin is chalk full simple wisdom. You don't need thousands of friends or followers. What you do need is a "tribe". An authentic tribe of friends, colleagues and customers that you have something in common with, can converse with and share relevant, useful information and ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/social-media/size-matter-followers/ If you don't have Google Analytics (GA) set-up on your website yet you need to do that right away. I provided instructions about how to add Google Analytics to your site in a previous post. GA is a very powerful tool and the majority of websites aren't leveraging the full value ... http://blog.sageinternet.com/2010/analytics/google-analytics-setting-goals/