Google Maps is Back on App Store
Afraid of the iOS 6 upgrade because you love Google Maps? Well the waiting is over…
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The Karaoke Web Standard
Well Microsoft has finally managed to get a leg up on all the current desktop web browsers available today with it’s new Karaoke Web Standard. To quote the KWS wiki entry: This specification defines a new API, focused on semantic language processing for two-way communication with a remote host. Eschewing typical binary protocols, this new […]
EMD Insanity and Coining Phrases
It’s clearly time for Beanstalk to officially list ourselves as a sitedefibrillation solution provider. Why? Because apparently the secret to SERP dominance with an EMD is to coin your own phrase! Do a search for ‘coinflation’ + ‘gold’ or really, almost any other keyword to see what Google considers an ‘improved’ result following the EMD […]
You don’t want the next Penguin update…
Is Matt Cutts just goofing around or is he really trying to scare us? The statement in the title of this article, from Matt Cutts, has the SEO world looking for further information as to just how bad the next Penguin update will be. During the SES in San Francisco this week Matt Cutts got […]
TECHNOlogy: What is AJAX? Baby Don’t Hurt Me!
Wikipedia defines AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) as: A group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. What a mind-numbing description! What you need to know is that AJAX is the combination of a several technologies to make better web pages. If you have no interest in making […]
Google Advisor: Where have you been all my life?
Admittedly, when I read the announcement that Google Advisor (Link removed – no longer available) was here to help me manage my money the first thoughts were about privacy and that last bastion of private information Google hasn’t touched yet: Banking. Being wrong never felt so good! Google Advisor is not (at the moment) a […]
First Self Driving Car is Licensed
It’s official, if you see a car drive by with nobody inside, the license plate has a red infinity logo, and you’re in Vegas, that really happened, you’re not just in bat country. Google can now legally send it’s self driving cars out solo, with nobody inside. I had to say that to myself […]
Google develops ARGs for Pirates
“Arrrgh! Shiver me timbers! Mizen the topsail! Be that land I see through my metal eye?!” Okay so Google’s new Augmented Reality Glasses aren’t just for one-eyed pirates, heck even a two eyed pirate can find a use for these ‘La Forge’ inspired techno goggles. Yesterday Google was showing off a working prototype of their […]
Don’t drink the link bait..
Thanks to the recent (April/March) Google updates, ‘tread lightly’ has never been better advice to anyone in the SEO industry. Between extra offers in my inbox to ‘exchange links’, ‘sell links’, ‘purchase links’, that all seem to be coming from GMail accounts, and reports of simple Java-script causing pages to drop from Google’s index, I’m […]