Ideas and Concepts from Damian Davila
Unlike traditional temporary text link placement that charge a monthly fee for placement, static HTML links work in the best interest of online advertisers and webmasters. The main advantage of static HTML links over temporary links (e.g. month-to-month backlinks) is that static HTML links are followed by crawlers from all major search engines such as Google and Bing without raising any red flags.
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$5 billion
Initial funding sought by Facebook, in one of the largest IPOs ever filed by a technology company
$75 to $100 billion
Estimated overall value of the social network — which may command “a valuation more than five times higher than Google Inc.,” says Bloomberg Businessweek.
$3.71 billion
Facebook’s annual revenue
85
Percentage of annual revenue in 2011 accounted for by advertising
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Dear readers of idaconcpts.com,
With great pleasure I share with an awesome update on La Casa del Ritmo, A film about Los Amigos Invisibles. I first wrote about this project back in February 2011 and I was very happy to support this project. I just got news that the world premiere of this amazing documentary will happen this March 2012 at the Miami International Film Festival. The full press release is below.
Congratulations to “mis panas invisibles” and my fellow Ecuadorian, Juan Miguel Marin.
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The other day I encountered an interesting Venn diagram about graphic design:
This diagram reminded me about how difficult is to find a great logo design for a blogger on a tight budget.
Awesome infographic on the Internet browser market share for the period 2008-2011.
The emergence of social media as a powerful tool for networking cannot be denied. Ranging from Facebook to Instagram to Digg, people can meet peers with similar interests and grow their businesses. Three common challenges from organizations jumping into social are that they feel that they must be in every single possible social media channel available, that they need to keep them completely separate from their major online presence, and that they need to have absolute control on what happens within the social media channel.
Let’s take a look at these 3 issues.
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Daily coupon fatigue is settling in.
Throughout 2010, it has been estimated that about 700 companies emerged in the daily deal market and
With Facebook phasing out its daily deal offers, Yelp scaling back its own, and Groupon still working towards an IPO, there are a lot of questions regarding the daily deal industry.
Here are 3 important trends.
A new report by Margaret Lyons at New York puts today’s successes in perspective by comparing their ratings to numbers for (relatively ho-hum) series that aired not too long ago.
Here are some sobering stats to put today’s TV in perspective.
By Matthew Simmons, Snap Marketing
In the face of an economic slowdown such as the one we are experiencing (and I have now been through 4!), its very easy to become despondent and to believe that the only way to survive is to cut back, keep your head down and sweat it out. In a dim and distant past I was a biologist and to my thinking recessions are actually rather like the commercial version of the ice‐ages. The Ice Ages were massive step changes in evolution of life on earth, and we all know what happened to the dinosaurs – but we also know that life did continue after such cataclysmic events – but only life that was able to adapt to the new conditions at the time.
And guess what, when the sun shone again, the ice melted, to reveal a new environment these adaptable life forms thrived. Commercially, the same is true during recessions – only those companies with solid business models, great and well focused products built on a solid plan will thrive after the recession.
So let’s look at one quick strategy to ensure you don’t end up like the dinosaurs!
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As movie lovers react to Netflix plan adjustments and cost increases, a fair percentage are exploring other movie rental options. Some are trying Amazon’s Prime program in which the movie streaming is a benefit, not the main thrust. Yet others are falling back to “real world” rental businesses again.
While it’s yet unknown whether those users leaving Netflix will stay away or eventually return, both Blockbuster and Redbox are enjoying increases in rental numbers and income. Of these two major brick-and-mortar organizations, which will win the “real rental” wars?
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