The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo. I’ve never posted a video before, but this one hit the funny bone just right. It’s not search or design related, but anyone who has worked in an office before will appreciate this. We’ve had a few ‘almost-5pm-on-Friday’ office wars at iCrossing.com.  Usually only a few people [...]

Microsoft, desperate to secure real estate for their paid search ads, strikes a new deal with Facebook, the industries quickest growing social platform. Under the new arrangement, Microsoft will trade it’s exclusive global advertising placement on Facebook for having Windows Live Search integrated into the Facebook environment. Facebook user search queries will generate search results [...]

Microsoft struggles to convince analysts and investors it still has a plan – a solid strategy for building search market share. Most remain unconvinced. I noted earlier this month that Microsoft, despite it’s varied and familiar tactics, has failed to gain market traction. Rather, Microsoft has gradually lost credibility and usage in the search marketplace [...]

From smoke pellets to grappling hooks, from night vision goggles to batarangs – is there anything the caped crusader can’t pull out of that utility belt? But what sort of a superhero would Batman be with-out the contents of his trusty gadget girdle? Every trade has it’s essential tools and Search Engine Optimization/ Search Engine [...]

From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar – Ask)  Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an arsenal that would grant them superiority. Like the real life cold-war, smaller web [...]

Apparently a little creative math + Photoshop + a Blogspot account goes a long way. The guys over at the Logologos blog have some interesting ideas about the origins of some pretty recognizable logos.  I found this through a post from logo designer David Airey over at the LogoDesignLove.com blog recently. Some of my favorites include the Apple logo [...]

I just love typography and the depth to which one can obsess about the nuances of type face, kerning and stroke weight. I’ve always been envious of the clever way that designers incorporate typography into their design. Due to the small number of cross-platform web friendly fonts we see less typography creativity online than in [...]

It’s no secret – Google is the most widely used search engine in the marketplace. Hitwise has tracked  search engine usage over the years (amongst other things) and their data shows a steady increase in Google usage. [ 2007 hitwise report with 2006 data ] Who is Losing? So with Google’s increase in popularity who [...]

As SEOers we’re constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there which have helped us in our quest to find the best phrases – in fact we’ve probably all used the now defunct Overture Tool, or Word [...]

While I love my PhotoShop CS3, there are times when I need to edit images when I’m away from my house where I have it installed. Often I want to edit an image for a PowerPoint presentation at work, or a forum/blog posting – so I got to looking around and found 10 online image [...]