Grandcentral.com becomes Google.com/Voice

by Brandon Wirtz

www.Google.com/Voice has gone live as replacement for Grandcentral.com.  while many of the features are staying the same, the ability to forward your calls to multiple phones, ability to make outgoing calls from your Virtual Number. What’s new in Google.com/voice is that you can now get your voicemails converted to text, and sent as e-mail or [...]

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How to Get a Good Job with Out the College Degree: Industry Certifications

by Brandon Wirtz

The impact of technology in our lives has grown exponentially over recent years. The demand for better, faster, more productive software and hardware equipment has increased the need for more experienced and better qualified IT (Information Technology) specialists. These IT professionals must possess a degree of knowledge and expertise that sets them apart from others [...]

Filed under : Money

Google Adsense Hacks: Tips to Improve your eCPM with Google Adsense

by Brandon Wirtz

Getting the most out of Google Adsense doesn’t involve anything dirty or deceptive.  It involves implementing Adsense the way Google intended.  These “hacks” will help you get the most money out of your content, and will do so with in the TOS of Adsense. Google Adsense Hack #1:  Write Good Content This would seem like [...]

Filed under : Money, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Friend Connect

by Brandon Wirtz

Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site that wants to use the tool. That’s right, now when I Google your name instead of getting your Linked in Page I’m going to see that your secretary bought [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Rants and Tangents, Technical

www.Zannel.com/Developers Zannel Open API adds Twitter, Flickr and Facebook Feeds

www.Zannel.com/Developers Zannel Open API adds Twitter, Flickr and Facebook Feeds by Brandon Wirtz

SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 3, 2008 — Today Zannel (zannel.com) announced that it is launching an open API (www.zannel.com/developers) that will allow developers to leverage the power and functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging™ (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups. With access to the IMM™ platform, developers can [...]

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CarmenHasACrushOnYou.com Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You! But it's my name on her Ass

CarmenHasACrushOnYou.com Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You! But it's my name on her Ass by Brandon Wirtz

Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You!   To promote the upcoming Hollywood spoof film “Meet the Spartans“, a parody of the hit action movie “300” and a sequel to 2007’s Epic Movie, 20th Century Fox has launched an innovative personalized viral marketing campaign called “Carmen has a crush on you” starring Tara Leigh Patrick, professionally [...]

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CarmenHasACrushOnYou.com Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You! But it’s my name on her Ass

CarmenHasACrushOnYou.com Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You! But it’s my name on her Ass by Brandon Wirtz

Carmen Electra Has A Crush On You!   To promote the upcoming Hollywood spoof film “Meet the Spartans“, a parody of the hit action movie “300” and a sequel to 2007’s Epic Movie, 20th Century Fox has launched an innovative personalized viral marketing campaign called “Carmen has a crush on you” starring Tara Leigh Patrick, professionally [...]

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Man555.com Sexy Singles Text Message Dating Service Engineers a Google Trend

Man555.com Sexy Singles Text Message Dating Service Engineers a Google Trend by Brandon Wirtz

My core readers may have noticed that I have been doing a lot of work with Google Trends lately.  But Man555.com has done something reasonably impressive.  They “hacked” their way on to Google Trends using SMS Messages.  Sending 100′s of thousands of text messages to cell phone users, and using a trojan to access e-mail [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Review of Walmart Launching Black Friday Early with $99 HD-DVD Player,

Review of Walmart Launching Black Friday Early with $99 HD-DVD Player, by Brandon Wirtz

Wal-Mart tells us that it will be selling Toshiba’s HD-A2 for $99 ($98.87) over the weekend only, starting Friday. Yes, at long last, the HD DVD player that was hovering in the mid $200s will break the (definitely profit-free) $100 barrier, at least temporarily. While the Sub one-hundred dollar price tag is not the only [...]

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7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games

7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games by

Solitaire? Sudoku? Word Spell? Oh please. With touch screens and Wi-Fi, surely we can expect more in the games department – not just ports of popular casual games, but new versions of solid market-tested titles that can take advantage of the iPhone’s sexy new features. Apple (AAPL) has surely got something interesting up its sleeves, [...]

Filed under : Industry News

7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games

7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games by

Solitaire? Sudoku? Word Spell? Oh please. With touch screens and Wi-Fi, surely we can expect more in the games department – not just ports of popular casual games, but new versions of solid market-tested titles that can take advantage of the iPhone’s sexy new features. Apple (AAPL) has surely got something interesting up its sleeves, [...]

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7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games

7 Deadly Time-Wasting Sins: iPhone’s Most Wanted Games by

Solitaire? Sudoku? Word Spell? Oh please. With touch screens and Wi-Fi, surely we can expect more in the games department – not just ports of popular casual games, but new versions of solid market-tested titles that can take advantage of the iPhone’s sexy new features. Apple (AAPL) has surely got something interesting up its sleeves, [...]

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Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel

Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel by

How did a small Finnish company create an online world which now boasts the largest current active user base in Europe and North America (about 6.5 million)*, far larger than World of Warcraft (around 4.5 million, not counting its Chinese audience)? Last week, Sulka Haro of Sulake Labs flew all the way to the Game [...]

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