How to protect your company’s branded search terms

 Your Brand  278 Responses »
Jul 132011
 

U.S. hotel industry loses approximately $1.9 billion annually in online bookings because channel partners and affiliates compete with the hotels’ direct channels by using branded search terms in paid search campaigns. Once a customer who is searching for a specific hotel brand has been attracted to the website of a hotel partner or affiliate, that customer often books a room at one of the competing properties displayed on these sites.

via How to protect your company’s branded search terms – iMediaConnection.com.

Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Responsive Design

 Web Design  131 Responses »
Jul 112011
 

 Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive design to describe the process of using liquid layouts and media queries to scale websites so that they fit any screen size.

via Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Responsive Design | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

Forget Photoshop, build your comps in the browser. It’s virtually impossible to mock up liquid layouts in Photoshop, start in the browser instead.

Scale images using img { max-width: 100%; }. For very large images, consider using something like Responsive Images to offer the very smallest screens smaller image downloads and then use JavaScript to swap in larger images for larger screen.

Judge rules “locker” site is not direct copyright infringer

 Internet News  539 Responses »
Jul 112011
 

On Friday, Judge Jordan threw out the direct infringement charge. The courts have long held that a finding of direct infringement requires a “volitional act” by the infringer. Jordan ruled that it was Hotfile’s users—not Hotfile itself—that decided which files to submit. And therefore, Hotfile cannot be guilty of direct copyright infringement.

On the other hand, the judge refused to throw out the secondary liability charge. The case will now proceed to determine whether Hotfile is, in fact, guilty of inducing its users to infringe copyright.

via Judge rules “locker” site is not direct copyright infringer.

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Google to open research institute

 Internet News  295 Responses »
Jul 112011
 

Berlin’s oldest university says it is partnering with Google and three German institutions to start a research institute.

Humboldt University announced Monday that the institute would open in the fall and examine the evolution of the Internet and its impact on society, science, politics and the economy.

 

Newsvine – Google to open research institute.

 

New Site, New Blog

 Uncategorized  293 Responses »
Jul 102011
 

We just updated our website, and our WordPress blog. Find latest information about our company and other things we find of interest. Fairly skimpy right now, but we will be updating once or twice a week.

Thanks for stopping by!

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