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According to separate studies released by StrongMail and ShareThis, links placed in emails have a higher conversion rate than links placed in Facebook, Twitter, or web badges. Although emails tended to lead to a higher percentage of conversions (i.e. sales and subscriptions), email links also had the highest percentage of actual link ignores where users more often ignored email links. Read the full story »
Oh the Remnants
I’m excited to post my newest work. It’s a collection of pieced memories from Helena AR, Scotland, Warrenton VA, Melbourne FL, Los Angeles CA, Estes Park CO, London, Bay St Louis MS, and Arlington VA.
Most of us have used the standard music players. Winamp is relatively light weight and has some really cool features such as Winamp Remote (full streaming web access to your entire music library from anywhere…including your mobile phone). iTunes is crisp, well thought-out, and works great with your iPhone too, but is almost ridiculously slow when run in Windows. And then there is the standard-shipped Windows Media Player. Microsoft has been attempting to up-the-ante on it for years now, but it’s just not that great and shows slow growth and improvement. Are there any other options worth taking a look at? Read the full story »
The iPhone is a great phone…it has changed the way I access the digital world. However, many business features of the phone have been missing or janked since day 1. Revealing the complacency in the Apple’s business aspirations, Galen Gruman makes note of the most recent dropped ball- no email access via encrypted microsoft exchange server 2007:
Fixing a major but unacknowledged bug in the operating system, last week’s iPhone OS 3.1 update has rendered most iPhones and all iPod Touches incompatible with Exchange 2007 servers that require on-device data be encrypted, a standard safeguard used by businesses.
In other words, Apple has fundamentally betrayed its iPhone users and the businesses that have either explicitly or implicitly supported the device.
The Three Soliders Memorial in Washington, DC
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Although the only version of the moon landing viewed by the public is the live broadcast view, John Sarkissian, a CSIRO scientist, has been on the lookout for high quality back up tapes of the footage. No luck so far, but they have released enhanced video that cleans up details in the live broadcast. Read the full story »
