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MacBook Air Spoof – MacBook Faith

The MacBook Air is Apple’s thinnest notebook to date. Its so thin, it can easily slide into a Letter or A4 sized envelope. It makes me wonder what the next generation MacBook will look like. Check out this

Online Display Ads: Does CTR Matter?

So you have a $500,000 budget to distribute your online display ad campaign for www.XYZCompany.com. The website has some form of high level web analytics installed such as WebTrends or Omniture and the tracking codes have been setup and your campaign is all going through the eyeblaster system.

You’ve spent several hours creating a blocking chart and the client has approved it. You send out the PO’s and all you have to do after the contracts are signed is setup your campaign in Eyeblaster or DoubleClick, whatever :)

Add Custom Rules to WordPress .htaccess

WordPress uses a .htaccess file to rewrite all the URLs to look like “http://www.kingrosales.com/category/internet-marketing/” rather than “http://www.kingrosales.com/index.php?pageid=10”. By default, a WordPress .htaccess file looks like: # BEGIN wordpress <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c> rewriteEngine On rewriteBase / rewriteCond… 

$31 Billion Advertising Campaign

… Well at least according to Paul Thomasch of Reuters, New York who’s sources state that companies around the world will spend a record $31 billion this year to advertise everything from toothpaste to home loans on the Internet.

$31 Billion equates to 10% of the world’s $495 billion advertising industry’s. And according to ZenithOptimedia, they forecast it to rise by 21% next year and an additional 13% to $43 billion in 2009.

Twitter WordPress Plugin, Twitter API

Twitter is an online social networking and micro-blogging tool which basically allows users to post their facebook-like “status” on their twitter page using various devices such as your cell phone, pda, or computer. Their idea… 

CNN, YouTube and the US Presidential Debate

I normally don’t watch news… call me crazy, but there are a lot more important things in my life than what CNN has got to say.

But today (and I normally don’t watch tv for that matter), I scanned across CNN’s “CNN and YouTube” special show.

Basically CNN and YouTube.com have partnered up and co-sponsored the US Presidential Debates. Voters can submit videos about their top priorities on YouTube and they are discussed on CNN.

Twitter Popularity in Canada

Stuck on the Facebook bandwagon? Lost pizazz in your originality department? Well, look no further because Twitter is here!… at least its been here since March 2006. Founded by a San Francisco start-up company, Obvious Corp… obviously :P

I’ve been using Twitter for a month now, but noticed only one person I know in Canada uses it; my boss (bow to my sensei) – meaning my followers list is quite thin. But that’s okay, because its got me asking questions about how a less popularized social media tool like Twitter got me using it, and why other people I know dont.