Web musings

I have been collecting some tidbits (techie talk) of useful or useless info for your reading pleasure:

1) Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots (got spanked this weekend), is asking money from Yahoo – it seems Yahoo was using his likeness in some ads – just forgot to get his okay on it – oops – Yahoo getting desperate?

2) Baidu launches the new blog search engine in China – perhaps this blog thingy might catch on??

3) Google – Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opens a new ad sales office in September, seems it has 40 people working there already. They need to move – going from 7,000 square foot spot to an 80,000 square foot spot – guess they are expecting a little growth in the Ann Arbor area.

4) Have you checked out the use of RSS in your shopping experience – these sites will keep checking for better pricing for you and feed it to you – go see, offertrax, style feeder, or mpire.

Rick Simmons is a principal at Dinkum Interactive, a firm specializing in online marketing solutions for small and medium sized businesses around the globe. With more than 25 years of experience in advertising and marketing, Simmons has spent the last four years focused on search engine optimization, and other Internet marketing strategies. Reach him at 267-626-9094 or [email protected]