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Al Jazeera’s Acquires USA TV Channel

In an attempt to reach a larger American audience, Al Jazeera English announced plans to purchase cable channel Current TV, first started by former Vice President Al Gore. Ray Suarez talks to Al Jazeera executive producer Robert Wheelock about the Qatar government-owned news organization’s move and challenges going forward.

What Al Jazeera’s Current TV Acquisition Means – YouTube

 

71 news Beuros around the world. News you just can’t get anywhere else.

Can a new News Channel grow and thrive in an internet information age??
I wonder if they approched Hulu yet? Or Hulu them?

FEARLESS FELIX : Jump from Sapce

Just watching this makes my somach a little quizzee .

That moment of Truth when the door opens and the world’s horizon is looking at you fom 360 degrees, “Can I do this”

Careful Felix, that first step is a dozy

Leap Touch? Minority Report is here!

Take 5 mins and see what NOT TOUCHING your computer or screen or keyboard can do!

I am blown away at how fast new tech is coming out AND being offered to the mainstream.
As a Designer and developer this kind of tool has me fascinated.

Feedback?

Three deals, $1 billion investment, and social networks

If you have been following social media marketing, then August 1st when the announcement was made that Google has Bought Wildfire Interactive.

The article below gives you the details.

I am currious how long it will take Google to integrate its + network into Wildfire.

Google now has a tool that operates inside of Facebook. Moreover, it has the data that powers the tool.
Getting deeper into facebook is all the better for Google…. and at $250,000,000 I’m sure they felt it was a great deal.

Ok Check out the article. Any comments of your own?

How Social Media Startup Wildfire Was Bought By Google for $250 Million

 The market for social media marketing is heating up, and among the first big winners are two entrepreneurs whose four-year old softwarecompany, Wildfire, was just bought by Google for a reported $250 million. Instead of placing ads triggered by keywords in search queries, Wildfirecampaigns are targeted based on the personal and behavioral data contained within social media user profiles.

The Silicon Valley startup is the third business built by the entrepreneurial team of Victoria Ransom and her co-founder and fiancé, Alain Chuard. Founded in 2008, Wildfire became one of the leading makers of software used to run contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In the last two-and-a-half years, the company has grown from five employees to 400. It now serves 16,000 businesses and counts 30 of the top Fortune 50 brands among its customers.

So how do you build a business that gets acquired by the world’s largest search advertising company for a reported nine-figure sum? For Wildfire’s founders, one part is having complementary skill sets, with Ransom leading the business and operations efforts and Chuard driving Wildfire’s product development.

 

Read More at the Source 

The Value of Your Own Hosting Account

I am always amazed at webmaster who provide hosting to their clients in a shared hosting account from a 3rd party.
What this means is, when another other person/techi/webmaster asks for access to their clients hosting account the webmaster is reluctent to hand over the key.
Reason: becuase it accesses EVERYONE’s account from the main hosting account.
I have run into this at least 5 times in the last 18 months.
 
 
This is problematic on many levels.
a) Security (Once in all accounts are in there)
b) Ease of access
c) Fear of letting client or client hired contrators into the account
d) Ease of access (yes very important so listed twice)
e) Access to custom email set-up you@yoursite.com and forwards  
f) Many techinal items, some SEO based, some information and functionality based….etc.
 
 
 
 
 
When you are shopping around for a host be sure they allow you access to your Control Panel and you have FTP access.
You don’t need to know the details, but you need to ask if you have access to your account from the SERVER side and not just through FTP.
If you are not offered your private account where you have your own access with an independent control panel, do not take that offer for hosting.
 
 
Oregon Publishing offers each client their own Hosting Account indepent of any other clients. Each client has total control of their account.
You are given your username and passwords and may share your hosting account with whomever you hire to work on your site.
You can create custom emails, set up forward, create new FTP accounts, access valuable SEO files such as .htaccess, install-update-repair and check databases, and much more
 
 
GREEN INSIDE: Did I mention Oregon Publishing Leases Hosting servers are powered by Wind Farms and actually produce more energy than used and sell 30% of this clean energy produced back to the power grid.

 

If you are not using Oregon Publishing or another local company that provide you your own hosting account independent of the Owner’s I suggest using HostGator and getting a shared account. They offer full access to your Hosting Control Panel, FTP Access, databases, etc. All the same options offered by OregonPublishing.com

Ask questions and understand the answers before deciding on a Host 

What’s new in Google Analytics?? Content Experiments & Page Value

Optimize your content with Content Experiments
Content Experiments is now in 100% of Google Analytics accounts. Plus, we’ve made some exciting improvements: you can now copy experiments, use relative URLs, and see Site Usage, Goal Set, and Ecommerce tabs in the Experiments report. Learn how well different versions of your pages work in getting visitors to complete your goals, and use this insight to make your site more effective. Look for the Experiments report in the Content section of your account. Learn more
What is the Value of your pages
 Use the Page Value metric (formerly $Index) to learn how much revenue has been contributed by a page or set of pages in comparison to the rest of your website. If you have goals set up, go to any Content report, and you’ll see Page Value in the last column. Learn more
Thank you Google

Pinterest No Blocking Stockers? Really

Hey I thought Pinterest was interesting, until I find out you cannot choose who follows you!

The general lack of control I’m turned off by And I am NOW TURNING OFFF MY PINTEREST ACCOUNT until they fix it.

Sorry, just don’t have the choice to be private…anyone can follow you…whether you invited them or not…

So NOT for ME!   Guess I should have noticed that before I started my account…oh well.

https://support.pinterest.com/entries/21033721-how-do-i-block-users-from-following-me