Apple Will Crush Amazon.com's Kindle and Complete Their Electronic Ecosystem With New Device In 2009
If you've been following Apple's patents over the past few years, you would have noticed a trend in tablet-like devices and innovative ways to interact with electronic devices (like gestures on...
There Is No Rex Davis, But He Does Want Your Money
We recently received an automated message in our voicemail from someone identifying themselves as Rex Davis. The voice said:This is Rex Davis this is not a sales call, have a "responsible"...
Presidential Election Results Via Widget
Get real-time election results on Nov. 4! Watch the electoral vote count and the congressional balance of power with the national U.S. map or choose a state and see how individual counties are voting...
Kate O'Neill Featured In Tennessean's "What Tennesseans Say About America"
Kate O'Neill, Managing Director of services at Sitening, was featured on the home page of the Tennessean earlier today. From now until Election Day, Tennessean.com will be asking local residents...
Concept for Competitor Review Website
This year at BarCamp Nashville, I presented on how to make Google your prison slave. One of the concepts I talked about was the idea of capturing a competitor's traffic through the use of product...
Apple's Marketing Spanks Microsoft's Marketing
It's hard to sell something you don't really believe in. That's the assumption I've been making with Microsoft's new ad campaign, created by Crispin Porter & Bogusky. Microsoft has thrown some...
How to Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites With One Database and One Code Base
Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and...
Email Spam Imitates Fake Life With ASCII Art
Straight off the heels of Pam's Dwight Shrute's ASCII portrait (from The Office in case you're too good to watch TV), comes ASCII spam. I'm not suggesting that email spam has never used ASCII, but...
Facebook's "Social Ads" Mess With Your Head
So I kept seeing Rex Hammock's picture associated with an ad in the right column of Facebook. I couldn't make sense out of it until I finally stumbled upon Social Ads in my Facebook privacy...
Example of Good Link Bait
I just found this linkbait mentioned in my RSS reader. It's a site called How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor?. To search marketers, this is an obvious attempt at...
Proof That Linking Out Actually Engages Readers
There are many reasons to link out from your website. Sometimes it's to link to a trusted partner or to a sister website. If you're a search engine optimizer, you link out because it helps your...
How To Protect Your Lunch
This sandwich looks pretty disgusting doesn't it? Who in there right mind would eat a sandwich with blotches of green mold? Not me, for sure.But alas, this is just a visual trick. I'm not sure how...
Hooray! No Black Holes! Go Science!
CERN flipped on the Large Hadron Collider today and we're all still alive (yay!). Neatorama is helping everyone celebrate with their clever t-shirt idea. Their t-shirt says:Hooray! No Black Holes...
How To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook (Screencast)
If you're like me, you've been experiencing an influx of new friend requests on Facebook. Some of them are old friends from school or from places you used to live, while others are from people you...
AMC Hates (Then Hearts) Twitter for Rogue Mad Men Promotion
It still amazes me how old school thinking (mainly about copyright) still interferes with the ability to allow fans to advertise for you. The most powerful and cost-effective form of advertising on...
