Twitter isn’t a bar. And it’s not a car. (I’ll stop rhyming now…) Twitter will cut you off though, alcohol and crazy driving jokes aside (though hopefully the two aren’t related…). If you don’t keep the character limit in mind, your messages can be just as obnoxious.
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You’ve heard people say it, particularly of political speeches: “It’s just rhetoric.” They mean, of course, that it’s B******T! – a bunch of grandiose, pretentious, self-serving, undoubtedly deceitful, and ultimately empty words meant to pull the wool over the eyes of all us rubes.
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If you’re on Facebook you’ve inevitably heard of Farmville, Mafia Wars, Bejeweled, etc. PopCap Games (who makes several popular social games) recently released a demographics snapshot of the social gaming community in its “2010 Social Gaming Report”. Surprisingly, over 50% of social gamers are women and the median age in the US is 48 yrs old.
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Though email still takes the top spot for online content sharing, new info by the social optimization platform Gigya suggests Facebook is king among the social media outlets at 44% with Twitter coming in second at 29%.
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I have been developing applications for the web for over 10 years, and I now primarily focus my efforts on the server-side of application development using.NET. Furthermore, I find myself devoting a considerable amount of effort towards making a sound architecture that can not only scale, but perform adequately under heavy load. This need has resulted in much research towards optimizing database transactions, connections, and queries.
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Good search engine position is crucial to your business’ online marketing strategy. Page 1 listings on Google are more critical than ever in today’s ultra-competitive search space and a recent study by iCrossing show just how little search traffic makes it past page 1. If less than 5% of non-branded search traffic won’t look past page 1, what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) steps are you taking to be found?
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Alright, alright, we get it! This text is more important than the other text around it. But if you put every other sentence in bold, you just “cried wolf.” I don’t believe you anymore. It can’t ALL be important enough to be bold, so I’m going to start ignoring your boldness (no pun intended). And when it’s time for me to really notice something, I’m going to miss it or ignore it because you cried wolf too many times.
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Have you ever caught yourself wondering where certain words come from? I’m a word lover. I love learning new words, big words, fancy words, and then of course using them as often as possible. Consider it just my way of being an intellectual. As any good wordsmith will tell you, the origins and history of words can be quite interesting. Today, I’d like to take you on a quick journey to understanding blurbs.
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Fort Wayne web design, like so many other places, has become quite ubiquitous. From the software and technology companies to the marketing and advertising agencies, who should you choose? Well, Fort Wayne web design is no different than anywhere else. You pick the web design firm with a solid strategy, a proven track record of success, and a firm grasp of the complexity of marketing your business online. So with so many presumed web design “experts”, what should look for and what should you be wary of when choosing a web design firm? Read the rest of this entry »
February 16th, 2010 in
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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
There’s music in that line. Read it aloud and you’ll hear it. Read it aloud and you may never forget it. That’s the beauty of a well-turned phrase. It takes hold of you and captures your imagination not only because of what it says but also because of how it says it. And it’s the “how” that makes it memorable.
If you’re a literature buff, you may recognize that line as the opening sentence of Rafael Sabatini’s classic tale of adventure, Scaramouche, set at the time of the French Revolution. The line was famous once for its indelibly apt, concise, and eloquent description of the book’s protagonist, André-Louis Moreau. Today, given how little people read anything of substance, let alone classic literature … ah, well … (If you could see me now, you’d see me shaking my head in dismay!)
But I digress. Getting back to my theme …
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