ComponentOne has released of a kit of UI widgets for HTML5 and jQuery development. The centerpiece of the release – called Wijmo – is the data visualization widgets that include more HTML5 chart types and new HTML5 gauges
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Developers’ Toolkit Released for jQuery and HTML5
Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane talked baseball, metrics, and people calling him crazy, with an audience of search marketers and corporate executives in a keynote yesterday at Covario’s InflectionPoint 2012 conference in California.
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5 ‘Moneyball’ Tips for Search Marketers from Billy Beane
Global Internet usage through mobile devices – not including tablets – essentially doubled from 4.3 percent in January 2011 to 8.5 percent in January 2012, according to Web analytics company StatCounter. StatCounter also reports that the use of “mobile devices”, referring to smartphones and feature phones only in their…
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Mobile Web Usage is Doubling Every Year
Simple PPC split testing can provide market insights that allow you to connect deeply and powerfully with your prospects. All that’s required is a willingness to think, wonder, and ask
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2 Non-Obvious PPC Split Tests
Some metrics will be completely eliminated; others are being replaced by metrics added to the Graph API.
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Facebook Deprecating 50+ Page Insights Metrics – Are You Ready?
Apple is the king of mobile. With an expanding market share, Apple is poised to break records yet again in 2012; though they must improve their iAd inventory to compete with Google.
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How to Take Advantage of Apple’s Rise to Mobile Market Dominance
Google believes that we can solve some of the world’s greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be more focused on global problems, using them as opportunities to encourage “moonshot” thinking.
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Solve for X: Google’s Answer to All World Problems
A minor update to Google’s Panda update was released in January. This was just one of 14 other search changes Google announced
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Panda, Fresher Results, Spelling Top Google’s January 2012 Search Updates
Google said that since security system Bouncer has been operating, malware levels on the Android Market have gone down. The company noted that over the second half of 2011, malicious downloads had decreased by 40 percent.
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Google Bouncer Security Tool Fights Android Malware
A court in India has ordered 21 technology firms, including Google and Facebook, to remove content. The Indian branches of both firms have complied with the court’s request and removed pages which had been deemed religiously or socially offensive.
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Google, Facebook Agree to Censor Content in India