Category: Internet

Redesigning Mary Meeker’s Ugly Internet Slideshow

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Each year Mary Meeker delivers a signature State of the Internet speech with deep and comprehensive insights into the emerging shape of the digital world. It’s fascinating, penetrating, brilliant – and a crime against good design. If it weren’t for Meeker’s sharp analysis, eyes would glaze at the PowerPoint-style visual dross. So we asked the presentation designer Emiland De Cubber – who famously redesigned the NSA’s confoundingly ugly PRISM PowerPoint that was leaked by Edward Snowden last year – to rework Meeker’s slides and make them easier on the eyes. The Paris-based designer kept the serious look and feel and stuck with the shade of grayish green favored by Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins …

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How to Spot Your Competitor’s Most Engaging Content

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Content is a hot topic in the business world today. Indeed, content marketing, done correctly, can be a very effective way to attract and retain clients, but the problem is more and more companies produce more and more content. It’s highly important to understand how to produce content that will engage your target audience, but is also vital to know what your competitors’ most engaging content is. To figure this out you don’t have to spend ages collecting and analyzing all that content, you can do things way easier and efficiently if you use the proper tools. The Importance of Knowing Which Type of Content Works At the end of the day, your content needs to convert readers into buyers. In order to …

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How to Spot Your Competitor’s Most Engaging Content

Press Release Sites See Huge Drop In Google Ranking After Panda 4.0

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire, BusinessWire and PRLog all losing between 60% to 85% of their SEO visibility. This drop seems to have come right after the Google Panda 4.0 update. The controversy around press release sites were mostly about links flowing from those releases, not necessarily the issue with the duplicative nature of that content. But let’s be honest, many many press releases issued are content thin and spammy on the content end, not just on the link end. So maybe, just maybe, Panda 4.0 adjusted for it and the big sites felt it? Sean from SEER also documented the drop via SEM Rush data and screen shots of before …

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Press Release Sites See Huge Drop In Google Ranking After Panda 4.0

Crowdfunding: 3 incredibly tiny PC modules starting at just $15

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

There was a time when computers were enormous, expensive machines that filled entire rooms. Now you can pick up a tiny desktop computer like the Raspberry Pi for about $35. But there’s room to go even smaller – and cheaper. Three new projects hit crowdfunding campaign Indiegogo recently, with the developers hoping to raise funds to offer incredibly small computer modules for prices as low as $15. These aren’t necessarily systems that will replace your Core i7 desktop PC anytime soon. But they could be used to help set up a wireless media server, print station, home automation system, or other DIY projects. AsiaRF AWM002 mini kit The AWM002 mini kit is basically a little computer module with integrated 802.11n WiFi, 8MB of flash storage, 32MB …

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Crowdfunding: 3 incredibly tiny PC modules starting at just $15

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eBay Just Lost 80% of its Organic Rankings: Here’s Why

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Poor eBay – They’re having a pretty bad day. Thanks to Google’s roll-out of Panda 4.0 and the Payday Loan 2.0 update, eBay is suffering a massive loss in organic traffic and rankings. Adding insult to injury, they had to ask all users to change their passwords after a database hack. Matt Cutts kicked off the SEO hysteria yesterday as he often does, with a tweet: First released in 2011, Panda is a component of the organic search ranking algorithm designed to weed out low-quality sites, or those with “thin content.” In its initial release, Panda affected approximately 12% of all search queries by March 2013, Google had refreshed Panda 25 times, making it a constant source of aggravation in SEO circles. This update is particularly worrisome …

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eBay Just Lost 80% of its Organic Rankings: Here’s Why