OK, so I had this ad show up on my facebook page (which I was totally checking for work related purposes) and was a little confused at the message that it was trying to convey, was it suggesting that I get my “6-pack” by going to their totally generic site? Or perhaps the message they [...]
Google AdWords is going through some major changes currently. There is a new version of the interface due to be released very soon, and now they are planning to make quite a substantial change to how they track conversions to make it much more granular. Please see the below explanation from Google for details on [...]
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Sorry for yet another post about Twitter, however, this is highly relevant to the last post. This week a company called Carson Systems, who do a number of things but primarily run some pretty amazing conferences in the Web 2.0 space, decided to run a competition on Twitter to win some free tickets to one [...]
Reading past posts on the Marker blog one would come to believe that we are truly obsessed with Twitter – and the truth is that a few of us here are. I have always seen Twitter as a rather clean web experience, free from the days of MySpace bands constantly trying to spam you with [...]
It’s that time of the year again when the Mountain Dew Road Tour hits all the great summer hot spots for fun, games and give aways. The Dew Trailer is cruising your favorite holiday hang out with a wicked prize pack up for grabs, including an Xbox360 console and heaps of games, a Samsung 37” [...]
While doing a search for results on the American election this evening, I came across this… lets call it “decent” ad for the Labour party. Being the advertising nerd that I am sometimes, I was rather amused by this idea and decided to see what other party’s had going in terms of their Google Adwords. [...]
The eyes of the world will be on the US elections on Tuesday, however there is another election happening this week here in New Zealand, if you live here you might have heard about it. I decided to put my geek hat on, and look at how the three main parties (based on current polling), [...]
Over the last few years there have been 3 things worrying me in the back of my mind: Will I stop being cool when I get old? Will I lose my hair when I get old? Will I lose touch with new technologies when I get old? I think its a safe bet to say [...]