Current Events, Internet Usage
More than half (53%) of online Americans say the recession is causing them to spend more time on the internet, where they are increasingly researching purchases to suppress impulse buying and shopping for deals that do not include shipping fees or sales tax, according...
Digital Marketing, Internet Usage
Despite a continued preference among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for receiving marketing information via direct mail and in other traditional ways, major marketers to SMBs are cutting back on these tactics and switching to lower-cost, online marketing to...
Digital Marketing, Internet Usage, Social Media
Social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and many others have become the online version of the coffee shop or barber shop of old. Because of this, many of them are effective tools for us to meet goals for our sites. Are you active on any social...
Internet Usage, Search, Technology
Google’s latest version of Chrome has claimed the lead in my JavaScript speed tests, but Apple’s new Safari 4 beta is the first browser to challenge it on Google’s own performance benchmark. JavaScript is a programming language that powers not just...
Internet Usage, Search, Technology
It’s no secret that when judged by several popular Web browser speed tests, Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t hold up well. Beta versions of IE 8 have been available to the general public for more than a year, and today’s release of the stable build...
Digital Marketing, Internet Usage
Mature consumers prefer single-image advertisements over ads with multi-image collages by a margin of 66% to 34%, and also gravitate to images that show products and lifestyles, according to a recent image-preference survey by Creating Results. Key findings about...
