tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152497462009-04-29T10:08:13.955-07:00Things that make me go "Hmmmmmmm..." Leah Blogレイアhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17155942201055601457noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15249746.post-77198966013732513452009-04-29T10:04:00.003-07:002009-04-29T10:08:13.965-07:00

We've gotten around to adding more sections to our main Artisan Crew website;Database Driven Catalog Publishing and some screens and info about our Ecommerce Design services.Hibino finally got around to writing his article series and he'll be putting it up online here: The I.T. Samurai.Hope you enjoy reading them.We've got a new product / site launch planned for a near date in the future.Keep

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In a frenzy of productivity, you may have notice we've renewed our main Custom Software and Website Design site.If you have sharp eyes and have ever visited the site before, you'll probably also notice that the Custom Software (Systems) page and the Website Design / Internet Marketing pages still have copy that looks like it was written a long long time ago.We're still working on it :)The

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I have no idea why I have the "A Team" on my mind right now.I blame light sleeping habits and late-night infomercials.I rarely update either the English or Japanese sides of this blog anymore but I wanted to get a quick note in today.1. I've finished writing the web marketing series in Japanese at 55 articles for US Front line and will get the remainder of them up soon, on the Japanese site of

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Ironically enough, while I never update the English part of this blog, I add a new article that I write for USFL magazine in Japanese once ever couple of weeks.I write the article in Japanese so I'd have to translate that back into English to use the article here on the English blog as well.Time-wise it just doesn't make sense right now, but I may have someone translate my articles and post them

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Hey there.Been working on a number of really fascinating projects lately, and I wish I could talk about some but for now I'm just going to apologize as usual for not updating.I've been writing my article in US Frontline (You can read it online as well if you can read Japanese and really want to see what I've been talking about) and have been having fun giving my views of the we and the marketing

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Things have been busy lately and I haven't had much (read: any) time to share my great thoughts and not so great thoughts on this blog.Also, I've realized I'm not exactly the "blogger" type.However, I do get the urge now and then to write stuff down, so I've decided to make this more of a place to occasionally write a column rather than a "blog" when the muse moves me.First off, I'd like to plug

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There have been a lot of rumors about and changes with Google lately and it's what the blogosphere is talking about.Let's start with the recent announcement about AdWords landing pages.What does this mean to us?Nobody's quite sure right now, but here's the buzz on Webmaster World.I'm not the only one to see a difference in the ranking and position of pages that are landing pages for keyword

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Have you googled Christmas yet?Try it.;)

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Today is what they're calling "Cyber Monday", or the day that kicks off the online holiday shopping season, the net's answer to Black Friday.We are seeing an interesting increase in shoppers choosing to stay home and do their shopping online and on the online sites of major retailers. (An obvious choice perhaps, if you hate malls even 1/100th as much as I do.)Monday, December 12th, is predicted

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This isn't a real entry, I just wanted to share this.I'm sure you've probably seen it, but if you haven't, just type in a word and this site will word-ize the number one result for the corresponding g.i.s.Wheeee!

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Forgive the MS Paint, It's Friday night and I'm home sober.(Borrowed shamelessly from Wiki, which I will discuss in my next posting. Probably.)Now, All Your Base Are Belong to Google!Their beta Google Base "community" posting site has opened to the public.I think I've seen it referred to as craiglist on steroids, but I could be wrong because that would be an inaccurate description.For now at

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In March of this year, Google bought Urchin, one of the better web traffic analysis tools on the market and we've all been kind of wondering what exactly they were going to do with it. We got our answer today when Google launched their Google Analytics and now when you try to reach www.urchin.com you get forwarded directly to their Google Analytics top page.And it's free for all AdWords users!(If

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So there's a term floating around the Search Engine world called "GoogleBowling" and if you don't know what it means, and you're a site owner or webmaster with an e-commerce site, or even a large site selling advertising links, you probably should.While it looks like it actually started in with the algorithm change in March of this year when Google decided to "punish" site wide link-buy campaigns

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Have you seen eBay's latest television commercials with the whole "IT" theme?Chances are if you're a member of an online community you saw it on the internet first.(Or, say, saw it written about in a blog or, well, a blog, or perhaps a community that may be called a blog or something as well..)I have a membership to TotalFark, one of the best $5.00 a month a person who loves news and silly news

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A couple days ago I had a lovely birthday, and the internet played a big part in it.My partner researched places to go and have fun on it, made a reservation through it, I was given gift certificates purchased off it and that will be spent there, sent gifts ordered from it, and I got cards designed on and sent from it as well.A friend sent me an interesting "card" that I had fun with.You go to

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Yesterday, I had a most interesting discussion (to me) in the bathroom with a very handsome older lady.The fact that she was handsome and older is not relevant, but the fact that it was in the bathroom is.I was visiting the Getty Center, a wonderful architectural structure designed by Richard Meier, who by all accounts knows his stuff when it comes to architecture, and had to go "fix my face"

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I've mention the potential purchase of AOL by Google or maybe MSN recently and I found this article today rather interesting.I'm going to not be intellectually lazy and actually get around to finding the actual figures regarding what AOL is today for you (well, I'll probably do it Wednesday, so take that "today" to mean "in the Internet world at this time" please) and what it really means to the

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In 2002, I went to the annual 3 day Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose to see what the people from the engines were up to and to get a feel for what my Search Engine Optimizing peers were doing and how good they were.There were a good number of respectable SEO/SEM firm owners and employees, there were those that bragged and blustered and intimated they had "fool-proof" "top-secret"

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When I was a child, my family was given a set of encyclopedias.When we had a question that we didn't know the answer to, we'd look it up by letter going through the pages until we found the right entry and try to find the answer.If the answer wasn't easily found, a trip to the library might actually be called for.Researching a paper for school took hours of finding resources on the topic, taking

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Most of the ideas that seem to succeed on the internet come from very simple and yet amazingly clever ideas.Kind of like a Mondrian, you look at it and say "I could do that! Anyone could do that!" but while anyone can imitate a stunnigly simple and obvious idea, it's often not obvious until you've seen it somewhere first.Often even the most "obvious" ideas are genius when a person first comes up

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So many mergers and strange alliances going on right now it's hard to figure out what this really means to us, the end users...Or what exactly is in it for the parties involved..Not that the ultimate answer isn't always "MONEY. CASH MONEY.", but how exactly they plan to make the money off these deals, and why they're doing it now is what's confusing even the "Experts" lately.I've seen lots of

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I'm going to start adding interesting links and commenting on some of the little things I'm thinking about that I've found in my travels on the internet.As a child, my mother tried to get me to keep a diary, but I refused thinking "If a diary's for me, why write one? I'll remember the important things".As an adult, I still don't keep a diary to remember the private things I think or feel, but I

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