Archive for September, 2009

Google Search Box Supersized and Senior Friendly

September 10, 2009

Google recently made its search box larger which in turn displays larger text suggestions as searchers type in their queries.

Supersized Google Search Box

Supersized Google Search Box

From the Official Google blog:

The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements.

By enlarging the most important piece of real estate on its homepage, Google has taken one more step toward insuring it remains the preferred search engine of America’s aging population.

Google 09-09-09

September 9, 2009

Today is the first time I have seen a Google homepage logo with art that doesn’t link to an explanation for its appearance.

Google 09-09-09

Google 09-09-09

I guess 09-09-09 is self explanatory.

Successful Domain Transfer

September 8, 2009

…at least that’s what these screen shots have lead me to believe after accepting the terms of my domain’s

AnchorText.com Transfer

AnchorText.com Transfer

transfer to my primary registrar.

Domain Transfer Authorization

Domain Transfer Authorization

I’ll soon learn whether my domain transfer has gone as smoothly as promised or not.

Time Management

September 7, 2009

I thought after my children returned to school, I would instantly get back into my work rhythm.

Such is not the case.

Instead I am now faced with juggling their schedules plus mine and my wife’s.

To help better manage my time, I am going to give Peter Bregman’s 18 minute plan a try.

Twitter Backup

September 6, 2009

The following is the final installment of my first 1080 Twitter tweets.

Scraping and then posting Tweets in a WordPress blog makes your Tweets searchable.

@samdecker @CMO_Council: US Ad Spend Plunges 14.2%; Only Online Posts Growth: http://tinyurl.com/qkwz4q Doubt it comes back17 minutes ago

RT @mashable Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links – http://bit.ly/miUdu3:47 PM Jul 19th

The Market for Political Spin http://bit.ly/PoliticalSpin3:38 PM Jul 19th from bit.ly

RT @chr1sa via @steverubel Top five Kindle books are all free http://ff.im/-5pZpn Maybe those new Amazon patents will monetize content.11:21 AM Jul 19th

One of my favorite books? Thinkertoys.8:39 PM Jul 18th

Anybody able to search and locate more than their last 100 Tweets / updates in their Twitter account?1:44 PM Jul 18th

@Twitter If only a week’s worth of my Tweets are archived – what did Twitter do with my Tweets that are older than a week – discard them?1:43 PM Jul 18th

@Twitter Who’s responsible for archiving all of my Tweets – me or Twitter?1:41 PM Jul 18th

@Twitter If Tweets older than a week aren’t searchable or findable – hasn’t Twitter then destroyed them?1:39 PM Jul 18th

@Twitter Why can’t I retrieve more than the last several pages of updates from my Twitter account?1:37 PM Jul 18th

Steve Brill interview with the Atlantic about content monetization http://bit.ly/FreeContentNo…3:23 PM Jul 17th from bit.ly

100% of US Internet users surveyed in Q2 2009 went online to pass the time: http://bit.ly/WhyPeopleGoOn…2:35 PM Jul 17th from bit.ly

69% of all Americans have used the internet to cope with the recession http://bit.ly/5WO1L2:33 PM Jul 17th from bit.ly

New study from Ruder Finn describes why people go online http://bit.ly/IntentDemogra…2:30 PM Jul 17th from bit.ly

“Intent is the new demographic”? I thought it was always the case for marketers.2:27 PM Jul 17th

RT @JDeragon Berkman Buzz: Week of July 13, 2009: A look at the past week’s online Berkman conversations… http://bit.ly/a5ELU1:30 PM Jul 17th

Binghoo Again?1:06 PM Jul 17th

arbitrage news?1:03 PM Jul 17th

domains domaining news?1:03 PM Jul 17th

RT @zittrain Orwell’s 1984 retroactively removed from Kindle?! Fitting example of Cloud censorship. http://bit.ly/12BjsC12:50 PM Jul 17th

What markets are experiencing compound annual growth rates? CAGR11:56 AM Jul 17th

adsense news ?10:17 AM Jul 17th

RT @davewiner You’ll know we’re in the age of real-time when Google Maps are real-time. 24-by-7 global satellite coverage of the planet.10:14 AM Jul 17th

seo news?10:12 AM Jul 17th

ppc news?10:12 AM Jul 17th

geotargeting news?10:12 AM Jul 17th

RT @ekant 4 tools to see Twitter pictures in real time – quite interesting to watch what people post – http://bit.ly/twitterpicstools8:45 AM Jul 17th

Rt @nielsenwire Nielsen Social Media Stats: Myspace Music Growing, Twitter’s Big Move, Facebook top time spent. http://bit.ly/163YEJ8:09 AM Jul 17th

Adwords news?7:50 AM Jul 17th

What % of Twitter users are a business owner, President or CEO ie., Decision Makers? Guessing less than .001 Any data?4:40 PM Jul 16th

…highly likely that one significant driver in paid clicks is the fact a very large portion of Bing screen real estate goes to paid ads.3:49 PM Jul 16th

Didit says Microsoft search ads got a 170% better click-through in June 2009 than they did in June 2008. Bing3:47 PM Jul 16th

Speakers ?3:38 PM Jul 16th

Cool RT @googlemaps @tamamic Maps mashup combining circ & traffic data for newspapers in the top 200 US markets. http://tr.im/sGDP3:16 PM Jul 16th

RT @Andrew303 First look at the new HTC Hero phone (best Google Phone yet) http://bit.ly/4p7QT3:15 PM Jul 16th

Tech Conference? Tech Conferences?3:07 PM Jul 16th

What’s a mortgagee to do when their mortgage holder can’t locate their loan docs?2:53 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld What does a completely relevant product look like for a billion people? http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:09 PM Jul 16th

Twitter, the product? Twitter is an open, one-to-many network for the rapid exchng of bite-size info http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:07 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld We need to cover search http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:06 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld We always have to be open to Exits http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:06 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld Will we have the revenue to represent the value that we think we are worth http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:05 PM Jul 16th

RT RT @erickschonfeld @Twitter create interesting commercial use http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:04 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld We dont care about monetizing eyeballs, we care about the distribution of content http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:04 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld Twitter introduced a new form of communication to the world http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:03 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld Can we make $4 Mill by the end of the year? http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:03 PM Jul 16th

RT @erickschonfeld @Twitter is an index to my friends thoughts and I subscribe to that http://tcrn.ch/62z twitterconfidential2:02 PM Jul 16th

Google announces second quarter 2009 results http://bit.ly/GoogleQ22009E…1:44 PM Jul 16th from bit.ly

Hash Search news?11:05 AM Jul 16th

An economy based on oil & gas, agriculture & livestock is not insulated from the national or global economy: instead its exposed to them.10:15 AM Jul 16th

FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising: Blogger rules http://bit.ly/FTCBloggerEnd…8:57 AM Jul 16th from bit.ly

Wondering if @Twitter could become an open social extranet for connecting collaborators within large companies?8:39 AM Jul 16th

RT @common_squirrel dig dig dig dig8:31 AM Jul 16th

What no HashYahoo / Yahoo “Twitter news service”?8:24 AM Jul 16th

Reminder: The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed…8:22 AM Jul 16th

RT @YahooGuy @sengineland: Search Engine Land: Yahoo Dominates The Web, Just Not In Search http://bit.ly/5URr07:58 AM Jul 16th

Desktop or Cloud? that is the question…7:57 AM Jul 16th

Blue Source LLC7:40 AM Jul 16th

Green Growth Fund7:40 AM Jul 16th

Generation Investment Management7:39 AM Jul 16th

Forgot: Chicago Climate Exchange7:39 AM Jul 16th

Wondering how Free the book title will compete and be differentiated from Free the adjective. Google search results: 3,980,000,0007:12 PM Jul 15th

Wired’s Chris Anderson’s new book Free available for Free on Amazon’s Kindle http://bit.ly/FreeforFree7:07 PM Jul 15th from bit.ly

Google Bakes Location into The Mobile Web On The iPhone: http://bit.ly/GoogleMobileL…6:19 PM Jul 15th from bit.ly

Definition of Traffic Accident -just occurred outside my window: When two vehicles try to occupy the same space at the same time.5:50 PM Jul 15th

Google Books on Twitter http://bit.ly/GoogleBookson…5:35 PM Jul 15th from bit.ly

@Webvisible 80% of U.S. Internet users use web search to find restaurants, stores & other local businesses, about half LBs have a website5:31 PM Jul 15th

@WebVisible Guess that Official Google Blog love was more than you hoped for. Hope you get back up soon.5:27 PM Jul 15th

Wal-Mart to create eco-ratings for products http://bit.ly/WalmartEcoRating5:24 PM Jul 15th from bit.ly

Chief Search Officer: http://www.ChiefSearchOffic…2:29 PM Jul 15th

http://www.ChiefSearchOffic…2:27 PM Jul 15th

Don’t understand the branding and / or business model of Twitter quote and news gurus. How exactly does being a “requoter” / renewser pay?2:09 PM Jul 15th

Scrubbed location coordinates from Twitter profile to see if omitting location stops Tweets from being grabbed by Twitter Local / Air app2:07 PM Jul 15th

Arghhh… TwitterLocal is decoding Lat Long for locations of Tweets.1:51 PM Jul 15th

@mwherman2000 Twitpic.com1:46 PM Jul 15th

@mwherman2000 Ok – what do you do?1:44 PM Jul 15th

14,060,000,000+/- searches across Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and AOL in June 2009 via SEL.1:44 PM Jul 15th

“What do you want to be remembered for?” Peter Drucker12:16 PM Jul 15th

Chief Carbon Officer (CCo)8:34 PM Jul 14th

Cap and Trade…8:27 PM Jul 14th

mwherman2000 – How I did it? I search a lot.8:11 PM Jul 14th

mwherman2000 Use @Twitter/Name to see tweet post in stream.  is called a hashtag.8:10 PM Jul 14th

@mwherman2000 I attributed the compete quote correctly to you “about 11 hours ago ” via WPC098:03 PM Jul 14th

The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index: http://bit.ly/GoldmanSachsC…7:44 PM Jul 14th from bit.ly

The Bona Fide Hedging exemption…7:36 PM Jul 14th

x buyers + y sellers + z speculators = Perfect Storm7:34 PM Jul 14th

Have PC shipments peaked? PeakPC? If not now, when?6:33 PM Jul 14th

RT @jowyang Interesting. Socialtext is now offering a hardware appliance for enterprise microblogging http://bit.ly/Pt8Ab4:01 PM Jul 14th

Test: @hashgoogle @hashbing @hashsocial Google + Bing + Social / Facebook = ?3:57 PM Jul 14th

Have the Bruno pirates not gotten the memo?3:53 PM Jul 14th

RT @alleyinsider Why Yelp (And Every Retailer) Should Jump On The Foursquare Bandwagon http://bit.ly/H29Fh3:51 PM Jul 14th

@AaronGoldman Just made up a new Twitter acronym. MRT = Modified Retweet original tweet has been changed/shortened or Mr.T…3:43 PM Jul 14th

RT @saman325 Read Chris Anderson’s Book “Free” on Google Books. For Free. http://tischen.at/KP43:32 PM Jul 14th

Looks like Tuesday afternoon / evening is top for Tweet Stream fishing @Twitter.3:32 PM Jul 14th

“Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.” Matt Taibbi3:26 PM Jul 14th

RT @PhilipNowak Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. http://is.gd/1yUeo3:24 PM Jul 14th

@hashgoogle Is hashgoogle automated? Is app available for any subject? Looks promising3:22 PM Jul 14th

RT @Hitwise_US Are you a Search Marketer? Learn how to improve your search programs w/Hitwise tomorrow @1pmET Register: http://bit.ly/16PHd93:18 PM Jul 14th

RT @googlecalendar ‘Let the great experiment begin!’ Calendar Labs, available today: http://bit.ly/gLMju3:15 PM Jul 14th

Why GM is Bankrupt: RT @WSJ Ex-GM CEO to Get Lifetime Salary http://bit.ly/ru3yi3:13 PM Jul 14th

@SteveCase “In 1993 alone, it was estimated nine billion person-hours were spent playing MSFT Solitaire.” David Edery & Ethan Mollick3:11 PM Jul 14th

RT @Szetela Search Only Major Ad Medium To Rise This Year, ‘Direct’ Outpaces National, Local Online Markets: http://bit.ly/s4lgg3:06 PM Jul 14th

@shoemoney who’s searching for you ???????? Within Facebook or everywhere? http://bit.ly/62eL13:05 PM Jul 14th

RT @muppman @johnbattelle: Check out bing + twitter – bingtweets! A msft fm joint http://www.bingtweets.com3:03 PM Jul 14th

RT @terencedwards If the bank returns your cheque marked “insufficient funds,” you now have to call them and ask if they meant you or them?2:58 PM Jul 14th

J.P. Morgan searchers tasting not but dining on Bing. http://bit.ly/BingTasting2:56 PM Jul 14th from bit.ly

@KentHuffman Thanks for the RT.2:28 PM Jul 14th

Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney expects Google’s average cost per click to decline by more than 13 percent to $0.42.2:23 PM Jul 14th

@wpblogger WordPress I bought their domain mapping service six months ago and new domain has never been indexed by Google. In Y! & Bing.2:18 PM Jul 14th

@madvil I am wondering if recognizing and honoring value is a generational thing…2:16 PM Jul 14th

@wpblogger WordPress2:15 PM Jul 14th

@ignitedECD Thinking @Zappos measures everything but Zappos.2:14 PM Jul 14th

RT @McCann_NY Adweek.com runnning ad for “Google Money Master”–promises work-at-home $$$. search reveals 100’s of consumer complaints.2:04 PM Jul 14th

Trust Attributes?

September 5, 2009

Are there identifiable and measureable attributes of Trust?

If so, what are they and why are they integral to establishing and sustaining trust?

Media: Growing or Shrinking?

September 4, 2009

Which media are growing?

Which media are shrinking?

According to Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a leading private equity firm dedicated to the information, education and media industries and their Communications Industry Forecast (CIF) – 15 media industries will grow between 2009-2013 while 10 media industries will shrink.

Media Growth & Shrinkage

Media Growth & Shrinkage

From the VSS Forecast:

VSS predicts that total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to over $1 trillion making communications the third fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy over that period. Segments driven by end user spending and targeted marketing services are gaining even as traditional advertising is shrinking.

2008 and 2009 witnessed a major shift in the spending patterns in the communications industry as advertising became the smallest of the four major sectors in 2008 — a first for advertising since VSS began tracking the industry in 1986.  While this period culminated a decade-long trend away from traditional advertising vehicles and towards institutional and consumer end-user spending and marketing services, it also highlighted the emergence of institutional and consumer communications as the dominant sectors in U.S. communications spending. VSS forecasts that the institutional sectors and various alternative media segments will drive overall communications spending for the next five years.  More specifically, institutional end-user spending will remain the largest and fastest-growing communications sector, rising by 5.6% annually as a result of strong gains in business information services, particularly in the marketing and financial services sub-segments, and the for-profit higher education sub-segment of educational and training media and services.  Alternative marketing segments – including branded entertainment and word-of-mouth marketing – will grow at 12.6% annually from 2008-2013 and will contribute to overall marketing services spending growth of 3.4% annually in the period 2008-2013.

Top 50 US Web Properties

September 3, 2009

The following are the Top 50 US Web Properties in July 2009 according to comScore.

Top 50 US Web Properties July 2009

Top 50 US Web Properties July 2009

Twitter.com has moved to number 42 reaching over 21 million unique visitors.

Search Search Results

September 2, 2009

I know its a confusing title, but stick with me here a second.

Typically Google indexes pages from a site with their own specific url.

However, on this particular site tens of pages have been indexed after a visitor ran a search within the WordPress search box in the upper right hand corner of TimothyCohn.com.

Search Search Results

Search Search Results

Try it out and run an obscure keyword search within this site and then see if it turns up in Google’s site links within a week or two.

Scratch that.

I will run a test search myself for the phrase “Survivor Bias” after I have published this post.

Gmail Cloud # Fail

September 1, 2009

Gmail has been down now for what seems like an eternity at least in internet time.

Gmail Fail Error

Gmail Fail Error

Just when I was lulled into thinking I didn’t need a backup for my work in the clouds – Gmail fails – again.