Posts tagged Opens
Top Maryland SEO Company Opens New Office in North Carolina – PR Web (press release)
Feb 3rd
 PR Web (press release) |
Top Maryland SEO Company Opens New Office in North Carolina
PR Web (press release) Blue Corona, one of the fastest growing online marketing and SEO companies in the country, opened a new office in Charlotte, NC. The move, part of a regional expansion program, is intended to provide the company with increased visibility and access to … |
View full post on SEO – Google News
Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 27th
 ReelSEO Online Video News |
Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up
ReelSEO Online Video News He is also founder of The Viral Orchard (http://www.viralorchard.com), an Internet marketing firm offering content writing and development services, viral marketing consulting, and SEO services. Jeremy writes constantly, loves online video, … Internet marketing news roundup, January 27 How Google+ Could Threaten Google's Core Search Business |
View full post on SEO – Google News
TechData Opens An App Store for VARs
Jan 23rd
Giant distributor TechData announced today the opening of its StreamOne Solutions Store. Think of it as an app store for VARs. No, your local VAR isn’t going to start selling iPad apps, but the “bigger apps” for their clients to download cloud services or download commercial applications software products and their licenses. It is a great idea.
“The Tech Data StreamOne platform is unlike anything currently offered within the channel,” says Gertrud Pillay, Vice President, Category Marketing and Licensing Operations at PCMall, a leading computer retailer. “With its intuitive interface, we’re able to quickly and easily bring greater value and efficiency to our customers by identifying which software solutions and cloud services will help our customers reach their goals.”
Sponsor
The StreamOne Solutions Store will also be made available as a rebranded white-labeled offering later this year, enabling VARs to establish a customized solutions store on their own website. The store has wizards to step VARs through the setup process to customize options for particular end-user clients, as you can see below.
StreamOne is the second phase of Tech Data’s online software storefronts: the first was the Software Licensor Selector that helped guide resellers through a few easy steps to ensure that the right product and SKU were picked.
View full post on ReadWriteWeb
Google’s 5th “Doodle 4 Google” Contest Opens For K-12 Students
Jan 18th
Google has launched its fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest, and this year’s version appears to be bigger than ever and easier to enter. This year’s contest theme is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…”. Students in grades K-12 have until March 20th…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
View full post on Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing
LinkedIn Opens DataFu: A Library for Working with Hadoop and Pig
Jan 12th
LinkedIn has been making heavy use of Apache Hadoop and Pig with its People You May Know and skills features (among others), and has pulled together a lot of User Defined Functions (UDFs) for Pig in the process.
On January 10th, LinkedIn’s Matthew Hays announced the release of DataFu on the LinkedIn engineering blog. DataFu is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. DataFu is a collection of UDFs that LinkedIn has developed for data mining and statistics.
Sponsor
The DataFu library has been tested against Pig 0.9. The library provides a number of functions for running PageRank, performing operations on Pig data bags, filtering input data and more.
Hays’ post walks through using DataFu to work through an example scenario computing quantiles from a fake data set, so interested developers can jump in and try the DataFu library out immediately. The project also includes a set of unit tests for each UDF.
It’s impressive to see just how much work is coming out of the Hadoop community these days. Any projects that you’re keeping an eye on?
View full post on ReadWriteWeb
Yobongo Opens Global Chat & Private Rooms, “iPhone Is Just The Start”
Jan 3rd
Friday night, New-Year’s-Eve Eve, I had just stepped away from my blogging station when Yobongo CEO Caleb Elston recommended I open the app. That’s interesting, I thought to myself. I never had to download an update. I’ve been watching Yobongo since it launched. It has only been open in Austin, New York and San Francisco since its debut, but I’ve kept my version updated, anyway. When it launched in my area, I didn’t want to miss it.
So when I opened Yobongo on Friday, my first thought was, There must be a Web app in here somewhere. My second thought was, Oh, wow! Global Yobongo chat and private rooms are open to everyone! So that’s the news. You can now use Yobongo no matter where you are, although the location-specific rooms are still only in select cities. But there’s more. As Caleb told me coyly, “iPhone is just the start” for Yobongo. “We want to help people communicate more efficiently,” Elston says, and that means everybody.
Sponsor
I was wrong about the Web app part. Elston explained to me that they simply put some switches to enable the new functionality later. But I was barking up the right tree. Yobongo uses links sent via email and SMS to connect users. That makes it easy for Yobongans – a word I just made up – to communicate across different device platforms. For now, it’s still iPhone only, but Elston has given me the distinct impression that this won’t be the case for long.
The Transition From Texting
I’m home in Atlanta for the holidays, and, fortunately, so are tons of my friends. Now that I finally could, I decided to beta test Yobongo with them. When Elston contacted me, I was on my way to see those friends at the time, and a great many of them have iPhones. So I created a private chat room for us, invited them all via a Web link in an SMS message, and told them what Yobongo does.
“It’s a live, persistent chat room,” I told them. “There are public rooms and private rooms.” I was improvising based on the new version. “There’s a global room now, and soon, there will be local, neighborhood-based rooms, so you can meet people around you. We can use this private room I made, and it also has direct messages.” They got the idea.
We already used Apple’s native iMessage for this, but group texting is annoying. It’s hard to tell who sent the message, some people don’t have group messaging turned on, et cetera. The new Yobongo features made the transition easy. It just used the contacts on my phone. I could send them invitations via SMS or email, and when they clicked on the link and downloaded the free app, they were in.
A Sense of Place
My friends are geeks in that they are the kind of people who have smartphones. But they aren’t geek geeks. They consider my obsession with the details and minute improvements of applications to be somewhat embarrassing. For my part, I think that makes them perfect beta testers.
I brought in a Web designer, a pro photographer, a third-year medical student, a senior congressional staffer and an Interscope-signed rock drummer. That’s a pretty good range of the geek spectrum, and only one is as OCD about apps as I am.
To my delight, the adoption was instantaneous. Everyone remarked on how the faces and simple bios, as well as the graceful, in-line photos, created a feeling of being together. When I explained that the goal Yobongo declared at launch was to bring new people together based on location, they understood. You could meet people here and then keep in touch with them, as well as bring your outside friends into the conversation.
Some Compromises
I won’t overlook the negatives. Some of the less native-feeling functionality had downsides that put a few bumps in the road. All my guinea pigs friends were frustrated by the app’s tendency to refresh when launching instead of bringing you back to your last screen. This morning, I noticed that the performance was a bit faster, and I could leave the app briefly and get right back to where I was. It doesn’t feel all the way native yet – though Elston assures me it is – but it’s getting there.
Another feature we want is access to the address book on the front screen, so we can invite our friends straight into private messages. As it is, you have to invite them through a private room first, and then you can message them. Presumably, when the beta period is over, the prominent ‘Feedback’ button can be replaced with this. In the meantime, Yobongo feels like exactly what it is: a work in progress by creative people who are open to suggestions.
Beta, But Beautiful
The global Yobongo room is clearly labeled as a beta, and the local rooms for your location are still in the menu, even if they aren’t open yet. So Yobongo currently feels like a sandbox. That is to say, it’s childlike, a little messy, playful and fun. Meet people, mess around, take pictures of your burritos, who cares? Talking to strangers in IM is good practice for real life.
I met Elston for coffee in San Francisco last October, and we discussed awkwardness. That’s the problem he was talking about solving with Yobongo. Awkwardness is in the mind, we agreed, and communication is the cure. Text messaging is awkward. It’s hard to type with thumbs, auto-correct can be hilarious and embarrassing, and, with groups, it’s hard to tell who said what. The little touches of Yobongo warm up the medium.
My friends and I planned our whole New Year’s Eve in our Yobongo room. And now that we’re starting to fly back to our respective new homes, we’re still using it, sharing little updates and hanging out live with one another for a few minutes at a time. It’s almost like we never left.
iPhone Is Just The Start
Thanks to Yobongo, Twitter, Instagram and a little bit of real life, I’ve gotten to know some of this team. The Yobongo people care about quality. They meditate in the office. They wouldn’t make compromises without a reason. So I know there’s something behind this functionality, the reconnecting on launch, the email and SMS invitations, things that the iPhone can do more natively, but Yobongo doesn’t.
“I’m just going to ask this straight up,” I said to Elston. “Is all this Web and email and SMS stuff setting the stage for a cross-platform adventure?”
“iPhone is just the start,” he replied. He followed with the Yobongo mantra, “We want to help people communicate more efficiently,” and then he changed the subject. “Standing in line for a burrito,” he said, and he sent me a picture.
If you have an iPhone, visit the App Store and try out Yobongo with your iPhone-wielding friends. See if it’s as natural for you as it was for me and mine. And non-iPhone folks should stay tuned, because that burrito pic was some serious sleight of hand.
How do you communicate with groups of friends at once?
View full post on ReadWriteWeb
SEOPartner Opens Business in the Big Apple through SEO New York – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 2nd
|
SEOPartner Opens Business in the Big Apple through SEO New York
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Sydney-based SEO company SEOPartner has directed its global expansion campaign toward US shores. The search engine placement company has been targeting all the most important English-speaking cities, of which the USA clearly has more than its fair … |
View full post on SEO – Google News
Quick SEO Results Opens Doors to Agencies and Resellers – PR Web (press release)
Dec 19th
|
Quick SEO Results Opens Doors to Agencies and Resellers
PR Web (press release) Quick SEO Results, a well known Canadian based SEO service provider is now accepting agencies and resellers for their search engine optimization services. Canadian based SEO service provider, Quick SEO Results announces today their latest update to the … |
View full post on SEO – Google News
SEO NZ Opens For New Zealand Business Owners – PR Web (press release)
Dec 19th
 PR Web (press release) |
SEO NZ Opens For New Zealand Business Owners
PR Web (press release) SEO Partner now offers localized search engine optimization to New Zealand, CEO James Schramko proceeds with company expansion plans. Page one rankings is now within the reach of business owners in the area, with our brand new SEO NZ done-for-you … |
View full post on SEO – Google News
SEO Services Firm MarketTarget Opens Madison Avenue Sales Office – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Dec 18th
|
SEO Services Firm MarketTarget Opens Madison Avenue Sales Office
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) MarketTarget, a leading SEO Services and Internet Marketing Agency announced the opening of an additional office location on Madison Avenue in New York. MarketTarget, a leading provider of Search Engine Optimization Services announced today the opening … |
View full post on SEO – Google News
