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Below are the most recent postings.

Google Street View Comes to Canada

Posted By Ezra Silverton in What's Buzzing on 2009-10-07

After much speculation, Google’s street view has come to Canada. Alas it’s finally live. Full Article

Diminishing brand recognition with online feeds

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-09-23

When interviewing new candidates for web related positions in our company, I often ask them how they keep up-to-date with what’s going on in the industry. Of those who do read regular news publications, blogs, websites, etc., most can’t name the publisher. Full Article

Canada’s Privacy Act – the World’s standard for social networking sites?

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, What's Buzzing on 2009-09-15

Over the last 14 months much discussion has stirred up about Facebook’s privacy policy and its non-compliance with Canada’s privacy act, PIPEDA. Full Article

Internet Marketing ramp up in August

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-08-24

If the holiday season is important to your business, than it’s important that Internet marketing initiatives like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) get started in August. Full Article

Domain Convergence 2009 Toronto Conference Day 2

Posted By Max in Domain Names, What's Buzzing on 2009-08-18

Day two of the Domain Convergence Conference was much less structured than the first day. The sessions were more casual and often became open forum discussions. There were only two sessions that were handled by an assigned presenter and delivered within the assigned time limits. These two presentations are outlined below: Full Article

Domain Convergence 2009 Toronto Conference Day 1

Posted By Max in Domain Names, What's Buzzing on 2009-08-14

The annual Domain Convergence conference was held in Toronto on 13th and 14th of August 2009. The main objective of this event was to bring together domain name owners, investors, entrepreneurs and developers throughout Canada in order to share ideas and experiences. Full Article

Toronto’s First Conference dedicated to Domain Names

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Domain Names, What's Buzzing on 2009-08-10

This year we have seen a lot more conferences being hosted in Canada on specific topics concerning the web, many thus far about Internet Marketing. Needless to say, we were excited to hear about a new conference coming up on August 13-14 in Toronto that’s solely dedicated to domain names. Full Article

No room for small talk in web copy

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-07-28

Writing content for a website is very different than writing for any other medium. There are many factors to keep in mind; most importantly that content is the primary reason for the website. This is why all other aspects of a website’s design should be based around it. After all websites are browsed and visited expressly for their content. Full Article

6 Business Models of the Internet

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Efficient Web on 2009-06-30

Unlike traditional models of running a business in the bricks-and-mortar world, techniques to generating revenue online continue to evolve and be defined. After over 15 years of witnessing, working with and corroborating on various methods of online business effectiveness, I have categorized the approaches into six basic business models of the Internet. Full Article

Getting on Google’s “pages from Canada”- is your website worthy?

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing on 2009-06-03

There are two ways of conducting a web search on Google.ca. You have a choice between searching “the web” or searching “pages from Canada”. The options are located directly under the search bar. You will notice an immediate difference in the search results between searching the web and searching pages from Canada. But what determines this difference and why could this matter to you? Full Article

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