tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17601484122948788782024-03-13T03:42:29.773-07:00Matalasco--A Sharper IdeaA Sharper Idea for Your Online PresencePeter Schulte, Seattlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06806235565011876228noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760148412294878878.post-1555597940701226162011-06-06T11:30:00.000-07:002011-06-06T11:30:06.539-07:00Like Button in Chrome for Twitter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Louis Gray writes one of my favorite blogs. <a href="http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/06/new-chrome-extension-lets-you-1-tweets.html">Here</a> is his latest post -- for Chrome users to Like Tweets and have them posted on their Google Profiles. Thanks Louis!</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Get started! Send a chat invitation to <b>guru@googlelabs.com</b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support <b>Google Talk</b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To start using <b>Google Talk Guru</b>:</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Sign into a chat client that supports Google Talk<br />
2. Send a chat invitation to <b>guru@googlelabs.com</b> or click the link "Sign in and invite myself to chat with Guru" at the bottom of this page.<br />
3. Find <b>guru</b> in your contact list and send chat queries to <b>guru</b> using the examples below:</span></div><table style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweet!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just entered my wife's place of work and saw the red lines where the traffic is slow.</span><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">Mashable is my first source for tech news, where I found the following.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Google will be holding a press event next Wednesday, February 2, at its Mountain View headquarters to show off Android <a href="http://mashable.com/tag/honeycomb" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1e598e; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Honeycomb</a>, the company’s tablet-optimized OS -- "an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos.” The stage presentations will begin at 10:00 a.m. PT. Google is calling it the event “A Taste of What’s New from Android.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Google is also sharing the Android love with the rest of world; the event will be live streamed at<a href="http://youtube.com/android" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1e598e; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">YouTube.com/Android</a>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">"Honeycomb, Android 3.0, is the first Google OS built specifically for the tablet form factor. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MatalasCo -- <i>Web development with a sharper idea for your online presence<span id="goog_540060634"></span><span id="goog_540060635"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a></i></span>Peter Schulte, Seattlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06806235565011876228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760148412294878878.post-82762584720731564822010-12-13T10:25:00.000-08:002010-12-13T10:25:33.362-08:00Fun, Free Help and Happiness Starting Google AdWords<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Launching my AdWords campaign has been an easy and satisfying experience, starting with a coupon for $75.00, which was boosted to $100.00 when used by a certain date. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the paid advertisements above and to the right of results in Google Search.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best thing is that a Google staff member built a half-dozen ads for me at no charge. He advised me on content for the landing page. We have had a few phone calls where my questions were answered. Now I have two campaigns and can easily create or revise ad groups in them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a picture of my keywords at the start. The quality score on the right reflects the web spiders' ability to find relevant content on the landing page. Note that the performance graph is a flat blue line as we start. It will be fun to see which of the ads Sam created rotate to the top.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first Google search for <i>web development</i> found my ad <u>in second place <b>on the first page</b></u>. Success!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search for <i>web design</i> showed my ad above the fold <u>on the first page</u> as in the lower right here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happiness! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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