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Recently, AJ Kumar wrote an article in Entrepreneur entitled “How Apple’s Siri Could Destroy Local SEO.” It explains that Apple’s voice recognition app Siri will reduce the number of traditional local searches. Instead, queries will be directed to the app, which will then will display arbitrary search results. While Kumar’s article is thoughtful, its title [...]

Over the past year, web publishers across nearly all industries have been noticing visits from iPad ratchet up significantly. This is especially true if you’re in tech, fashion or another business that attracts an upmarket clientele. With good reason, you’ve been thinking about how to create an awesome experience for your iPad visitors. But according [...]

With over a billion smartphones in use, it’s hard not scoff and turn up my brow when I read the words “mobile is the future.” According to Socialnomics, half of all searches are conducted on mobile devices. Make no mistake: mobile is the present. Of course mobile technology will play an incremental role as the [...]

Web sites, you are still loved. A new study of mobile device usage appears to show that visiting web sites is still a slightly more popular activity than using apps, and substantially more popular than visiting blogs or social media sites. This comes despite a massive proliferation of hundreds of thousands of apps for iPhone, [...]

Tumblr is the online equivalent of a boom town. The platform saw 218% year-over-year growth, and every minute, approximately 38,000 tumblogs – short blogs that often contain multimedia – appear on the Tumblr network.  Tumblr doesn’t require self-hosting, and within minutes, you can have your own blog. Given all that, it seems that Tumblr would be an obvious [...]

Square, the mobile payments device that turns any iPhone or iPad into a mobile credit card processor, already had mogul Richard Branson as an investor. Until today, it was hard to imagine Square adding a bigger superstar endorsement to its roster. Enter President Obama’s re-election campaign, which will be using Square for mobile fundraising. During [...]

Why Call Tracking is Necessary Though more and more sales are occurring online, an AdInsight study predicted that more than half of conversions still occur offline—over the phone or through retail outlets. It would make our job as marketers easy if everyone felt completely comfortable making their purchases online. However, there are still plenty of [...]

Even though large streams of data are available to brands through social media, that information is worthless unless a business is agile enough to respond to leverage real-time social media dynamics. In order to become a social business, an organization needs to be able to convert social data into actionable insights through new analytics and [...]

In their song “Cut Your Hair”, the rock band Pavement acerbically mused on the ceaseless stream of bands starting up in their music scene. “I saw another one, just the other day … a special new band,” they sang. Nearly two decades later, Pavement could easily rewrite those lyrics to lampoon the tech scene, since [...]