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October 2011

CultureDevelopment

Drupal & WordPress on the same couch?

Ninthlink buddy Matt Young was talking about a photo that Drupal-founder Dries showed him, of Dries and Wordpress-founder Matt Mullenweg sharing the same couch. After some quick googling, it looks like that stemmed from a rad event (SchipulCon 2011) that both spoke at. I really dug reading that write-up of their talk - especially when asked how each benefits from the other's existence. (more…)
October 27, 2011
Marketing

The Local Play: Strategy for Your Local Ad Campaigns

Local is the latest buzzword in Online Marketing and seems to be the very last mile of the Internet Marketing gold rush. Now, everyone from the major search engines to city specific business directories and publishers are vying for your local marketing dollar.  Having been in this space for over 12 years, the local play makes sense. Early on, the search engines focused completely on National rankings. So if you optimized your website, for example, for a keyword phrase such…
October 24, 2011
Culture

What Siri Does On Her Friday Afternoons

http://vimeo.com/30892539 Fresh from Mashable: after the word came out on how to get Siri to tweet for you, a couple people at Redpepper took it to that next level. What is that next level, you ask? Why, of course, it is hooking a radio-controlled truck up to a WiFi device which checks Twitter for specific tweets, and then takes a can of beer on a crash course in to a conveniently-waiting cup. We approve, and we think Rube Goldberg would,…
October 21, 2011
Marketing

Google Wallet. For Easy Purchasing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsaJMhcLm_A Not sure if I would ditch your wallet just yet. But this is a badass idea that I could see growing really fast and going far. Google Wallet  just launched so unfortunately it's not available for all card holders or all smartphone. Currently partnered with Citi Bank, Master Card, And Sprint phones, or you can load up a prepaid Google card. Hope they hurry up and expand to more carriers. (more…)
October 18, 2011