Dog Collars and Water Bowls

Posting articles I read from newsletter subscriptions.

Subjects:
--ecommerce
--mobile tech
--media
--online business
--content data
--total junk from sports and pop-culture
--a few bits about dogs, kayaking, snowboarding, and Utah/Maine
Recent Tweets @Damon_Peters

Econsultancy (@Econsultancy) tweeted at 10:00 PM on Mon, Nov 19, 2012: 11 gorgeous examples of responsive design : http://t.co/NGiQ92zB

The new ‘Premium Ad’ system will let advertisers buy premium ad inventory — on the home page and within News Feed — through the ‘Ads API’ and ‘Power Editor’ tool, rather than working directly with a Facebook ad representative

The investigation outlined four areas where Google’s practices “may be considered as abuses of dominance”, Almunia said.

quick site analytics reminders about KPIs.

Ouch:  the majority of companies (56%) and a significant proportion of agencies (39%) state that they (or their clients) have done nothing to adapt their search campaigns since the launch of Google+.

the importance of ‘hover’ correlation to conversion:  “ads appearing above the fold were 6.7x more effective at generating conversions than those appearing below the fold.”

blaming the Interweb for the death of the daily newspaper and asking the government to step in and regulate.  this is the Canadian way?  there is opportunity in newspaper publishing—old guard doesn’t get it, but the folks actually want news and perspective.