Marketing

WGHubris on June 22nd, 2011

I’m a professional freelance writer who makes money writing online in several ways, one of which is using Google AdSense on websites I own and publish content on. I don’t do much (Ok, none) buying of ads via Google’s AdWords platform. However, an AdSense publisher I find it very useful to stay up to date [...]

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WGHubris on July 23rd, 2010

I can’t help but wonder, considering the number of websites and web developers who insist on ensuring that their websites are still fully compliant with Internet Explorer 6, which was rendered obsolete long ago, should other non-standard browser configurations be considered as well? Has anyone ever tried to count how many users run Firefox with [...]

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WGHubris on June 29th, 2010

The website Smashing Magazine published a take on whether or not ad blocking software hurts good websites and by extension those who make their living working with good websites. This time the article comes from the point of view of web designers. My conclusions remain the same. I will turn off my AdBlock Plus, actually [...]

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WGHubris on June 18th, 2010

Facebook is not a publicly traded company. Although there are many people speculating that Facebook will go public in the near future. As a privately held company, Facebook is not required to release any financial information to the public. Furthermore, the company does not have to have its finances audited either. That doesn’t keep financial [...]

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WGHubris on May 3rd, 2010

Is Facebook’s new Like Button really a Google killer. Will the Likes of social networking prove more desirable and powerful than Google’s search engine rankings based upon number of links?

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Microsoft has released Office 2010 to manufacturers. I’ve been using 2010 exclusively for awhile now in my freelance writing business. In particular Office OneNote 2010 offers a great organization and clipping tool for freelance writers. For those of you who are not real familiar with how Microsoft releases software upgrades and new versions of products, [...]

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WGHubris on March 7th, 2010

An interesting post over at ARS Technica about how ad blocking hurts websites. The post is interesting for two reasons. First, the article, written by ARS Technica’s founder and owner, goes into more detail than is often the case regarding how ad supported websites work and how blocking those ads can hurt the website in [...]

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WGHubris on February 19th, 2010

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and [...]

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