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Live Webcam – America’s Cup World Series Naples

francesco — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:46:45 +0000

Tune in to the AC World Series – Naples webcam to get a bird’s eye view of all the action, live from Italy. We have three webcams covering the team bases and Race Village area. See if you can spot your favorite team as they prepare each day. Championship Racing runs from April 11-15, with teams training in the days leading up to the racing.

Tutorial for Your New Google+ Stream

francesco — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:39 +0000

The following guidelines and tips are based on the image attached.

01. Both the Google Logo and the Home button directs you to your Main Stream.
02. Go to your Profile.
03. Circles - Manage them into Circles of your wish.
04. Photos
–> Hover over the button to Add New Photos, To see the Photos from Your Phone OR View All your Photo Albums.
05. Pages button.
–> Hover over the Pages to button to switch between the Brand Pages you Admin or Manage.
06. More Extension, when extended shows the rest of the buttons
In may case; Explore, Hangouts, Games.
>> Explore : Shows what’s new on Google+ and the What’s Hot posts.
>> Hangouts : Displays LIVE hangouts to Join, and Hangouts on Air to Watch.
>> Games : Directs you to Your Game World! Shows Game Notifications, List of All Games, and what people in your Circles Played.
<<–>> Please Note that the Above mentioned Buttons can be rearranged in the Order You Prefer.
07. Share Box : Share what you feel, what you are interested in.
- > Feel free to Attach images, videos or links.
- > Format your posts with Bold, Italic, OR ~~Strikethrough~~
08. Displays the Trending Search & Post Topics.
09. Live Hangouts and Start Hangout button.
10. Your Name : Clicking here shows you Your Brand Pages and Other Google Accounts to Switch.
>> Clicking on Your Profile Pic on the Google Bar also gives the same.
11. Hangout & Chat : Your Chat list.
–> Select whom to be visible to from Chat Privacy Settings.
12. Shows the list of Your Circles to View their Streams.
>> Also shows your Saved Searches, and Your Sparks.

Hope you’ve Learnt the Basics of the New Google Plus Interface.

Good Luck, and Keep providing The Feedback to the Google+ Team.
Thank You.

G+ Whitespace Fix – Fix the width on the new G+. Also adds some small CSS tweaks.

francesco — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:52:25 +0000

Fix the width on the new G+. Also adds some small CSS tweaks.

This is a quick extension that helps fill the void in your life… You Google+ life, that is. This just adjusts the page styles a bit to make the content fill the screen better.

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The Tigers Lair

francesco — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:03:47 +0000

Facebook page dedicated to the following disciplines Boxing - Taekwondo - Kickboxing- Wrestling - Judo - greek-Roman Wrestling - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Mixed Martial Arts etc…. Videos - Events - Gatherings.

BECOME A FAN!

Google Comparison Ads: 100 more pixels of fun

francesco — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:30:21 +0000

Gee thanks ~~Overture~~ Google. That Comparison Ad is very helpful and I didn’t need for my organic results to show up above the fold anyhow.

+ Google for business [Infographic]

francesco — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:50:06 +0000

Google Plus Traffic Control for WordPress

francesco — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:48:40 +0000

Google Plus Traffic Control is a complete Traffic Building solution for Google Plus that also allows you to track your +1 growth! More pluses = more traffic = more $$$$

Features

Built In TrafficPop™ – An advanced traffic pop allows you to lock down page functionality until the user clicks +1. Comes with 2 color themes (light and dark) and tons of other settings including: advanced close features, timer and opacity settings, set all popup text + urls right from the admin panel!
Selective Page Control For Popup – Choose what pages / posts the popup should appear on as well as independent settings for the homepage.
Built In Content Locker - The Content Lockers allows you to quickly and easily lock content behind a Google+ button. You can insert an unlimited number of lockers on a single page. There are 5 different color themes with great Google+ styling. Content can not be viewed in page source either! Insert any content you want” HTML , Videos, Audio, Flash, Download Links, etc.
Cookies Galor! - Cookies keep track of all visitors who use the popup or the content locker and will remember if it should just show the content, or enable / disable the popup.
Comes with tinyMCE Toolbar Plugin - Easily generate the shortcodes for your content lockers with an easy to use tinyMCE extensions that sits one click away in the WordPress post / page editor!
Google + Traffic Spy - Allows you to view all Google+ activity on your site done through the plugin. Logs info any time a visitor uses TrafficPop, Content Locker, or the trackable sidebar widget. Logs the URL the button is set to +1, the current page the user is on, the users IP address, and the current time / date.
Includes Two Widgets - Also included is a fully trackable Google+ widget that you can use to insert fully customized Google+ buttons into and widget area, an unlimited number of times. The second widget is a Dashboard Widget for Google+ Traffic Spy that allows you to view at a glance information for google plus data and counts for the current day, month, and previous month.
AJAX Admin Panel - Includes a full AJAX admin panel for all the popup settings, and API settings. Google + Traffic Control allows you to specify ANY og the locales for use with the Google+ API !
Includes full documentation / instructions only takes seconds to install!

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Facebook Traffic Pop

francesco — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:15:35 +0000

Tap into Facebook’s 600 million plus users now with the hottest Facebook traffic plugin. Facebook traffic pop is a new breed of ‘popups’ that will allow you to have your users like your pages, instead of trying to get them to click ads. More likes = more exposure = more traffic = more money!

Features

Optional close and advanced close features like clicking outside of the popup and using the escape key.
Delay timer to wait a certain amount of time before the popup shows.
LOCKS out ALL page functionality behind the popup!
Popup stays fixed in middle of screen as user scrolls!
Cookies remember users who already ‘Liked’ the page
Specify any URL or use the current page address automatically.
Works on all sites and big and small
Fully customizable CSS .
Viral, Facebook styled pop-up is proven to induce more ‘Like’ clicks!
Make Facebook your slave with one line of code!
jQuery style plugin with full documentation!
Can disable timer completely requiring user to like or close (if enabled)
Set background shadow opacity via options

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Pinterest – The Social Media Darling Of 2012: Infographic

francesco — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:01:06 +0000

Why Google Plus is a failure?

francesco — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:11:33 +0000

(Moneywatch) COMMENTARY There comes a time in every company’s life span when it stops being small and start acting big. Or more precisely, “too big.” This milestone is not measured in dollars or forms of corporate governance. It is when it thinks it can spin the truth and get away with it. The operative word is “think.” A company of any size will try to spin facts to its own favor, but only a behemoth believes in its own mythology. Let us all welcome Google (GOOG) to this list. In response to an article in The Wall Street Journal about Google Plus being a “ghost town,” Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president for engineering, fired back in the The New York Times by saying, “Not only is Google Plus not a ghost town, we have never seen anything grow this fast. Ever.” According to market research firm comScore, users of Google Pus, the new social media site, average 3 minutes per month on its site. (By comparison Facebook users average 405 minutes a month.) Google also claims that monthly traffic number is 100 million, chiefly because it is including visitors to other Google Plus enhanced sites such as YouTube. Nick Bilton, who wrote the Times story put it best. “Realistically, the debate over how many people use Google Plus, how many real users it has… seems almost irrelevant. Google is determined to make Google Plus work at all costs, even in the face of naysayers.” Therein lies the problem. Executives at Google, among the very brightest in the cyber-sphere, may be guilty of something that many managers fall prey to periodically. Hubris! But more than arrogance, Google is a victim of myopia. Google is choosing to view the company through its executive suite in Mountain View, Calif., not through the thousands of pairs of eyes of men and women who are paid to observe, analyze and comment on its corporate performance. Ignoring them is hubristic certainly, but it is short sighted because Google executives are acting as if people actually believe them. It reminds me of a quote I have often used in my leadership seminars: “A desk,” wrote David Cornwell (aka John LeCarre), “is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” Things are neat and simple if you do not venture from your home turf.

Not too long ago the nation witnessed the spectacle of one company’s implosion because for too long it failed to see beyond its own myopia. General Motors (GM) went into bankruptcy in 2009 ostensibly because of the financial meltdown. Truthfully, the decay had long set in due to is management’s myopic failure to address the hard questions about excessive costs related to an oversized marketing system, bloated capacity and outsized labor force.

Looking at Google today I do not see General Motors but I do sense a similarity in Google’s desire to spin the world to its own axis. The irony is that GM was poorly run; Google is very well run. Google made search popular and pay per click viable. Let Google continue to do what it does well without the spin.

Respect for customers rests on respect for the truth. And that’s true for companies big and small.