(From Google Street View) The year 2007, when Google first began driving those ridiculous camera-topped cars around U.S. cities, doesn’t feel so long ago. But seven years is a lifetime on the streets of a rapidly changing city like Washington. So much in the District has changed so quickly that it’s almost hard to remember...Read More
The website-making sector has seen a lot of activity lately, including Squarespace’s new $40 million round, Weebly’s $35 million in new funding, and Brandcast’s fresh $1.5 million on the same day. And we’ve even seen rumors of WordPress parent company Automattic raising new funding of about $100 million. And speaking of WordPress, it just acquired, for an...Read More
A common question that every small business owner has when it comes to driving visitors to his or her website is whether search engine optimization (SEO) or pay-per-click (PPC) marketing is the best option. These are the two most effective traffic sources and each has pro’s and con’s to consider. Pay-Per-Click (PPC): “(On the Internet)...Read More
Street View images from different periods can now be compared to see how places have changed over time. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Google Maps Street View gained a new feature on Wednesday: a way to travel through time. Street View has always offered time travel of a sort: Its images show the...Read More
If you’re a WordPress-using photo-blogger looking to save yourself some spadework, you might like this little tool developed by Automattic. Rather than manually scheduling posts for individual photos one at a time, Postbot lets you drag-and-drop your snaps to upload and schedule them automatically – you can edit the details for each image as they’re uploading...Read More
A couple weeks ago, I got a call from one of our portfolio company’s CEOs, who was frustrated by his confusion around SEO. He felt like he just couldn’t get a straight answer. Each “expert†claimed to know the secret sauce and recommended different strategies, most of which they (eventually) admitted could result in Google...Read More
Apple and Google are supposedly battling for exclusive games on their respective mobile platforms, but we haven’t seen many fireworks. A story by the Wall Street Journal claims that Apple and Google have staked out a new battleground over mobile games, as both companies try to grab exclusives for their own platforms. Citing unnamed sources,...Read More
SEO isn’t just about ranking for keywords. Many people fall into a keyword obsession rut and seem to forget that while keywords are important, SEO at its core is about indexation, crawlability, and creating a site that is effectively traversed by crawling search bots. Many people also often forget how, when done effectively, SEO supports...Read More
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