Americans Use Social Networking More than Other Countries

Americans are most likely to use online social networks, according to a new study from the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Among the 22 publics surveyed, Americans most often say they use websites like Facebook and MySpace: 46% use such sites, 36% use the Internet, but do not access these sites, and 18% say they never…

Mobile Websites Increase Reach & Instantly Informs Onsite Buyers

In a slow consumer market companies must find ways to reach buyers outside of traditional methods.  Real Estate buyers have come to expect instant information 24/7 from the Internet with the natural progression of this being the ‘mobile website’.  Internet Builder Consulting built a content management mobile website for Greater Missouri Builders, a leading St…

Google is Buying Twitter – Blogger.com Has Twitter Favicon

There has been quite a bit of speculation and talk about Google buying Twitter although I have not seen anything solid until last week when all of the Google Blogger.com accounts had Twitter Favicon icons on them for two days.  I verified this for customer and internal Blogger accounts from multiple computers then searched online…

The Internet’s Top Sources of Referral Traffic are Social Networks

Social Networking is about MORE than just connecting with others online.  As Internet Builder Consulting has said for years (NAHB IBS 2006, 2007 and Bob Schultz Training 2007, 2008 & 2009) an important key to online marketing is link weight and referral traffic.  A recent study we found posted on ReadWriteWeb.com showed the importance of…

Marketers Are Watching Social Networks & Reading Your Posts!

Tech Savvy marketers are using Social Networking for targeted advertising.  With Facebook you can target ads for Facebook users based on job, income, location, hobbies and a wide range of other criteria for the Pay Per Click ad campaigns.  Another unique ‘feature’ we found some marketing companies use is a ‘sniffer’ that automatically browses facebook…

Dotcom Gifts for the Holidays – HD Cameras & Video, Laptops for the Kids

With more than 500 million active facebook users I believe it is time to change what we give to kids over the holidays.  I know some kids want toys, bikes, dolls or games but for about the same price why not buy them a laptop of their own?  Kids are tough on electronics so I…

How to Save your Open Windows (Browser Sessions) When Closing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)

One of the reasons I have liked Firefox for so long was the simple option it asks when you close the browser “Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts?” which is great when you have 10 windows open for research.  Internet Explorer has not caught on to this…