5 for Friday - Links, Stories & Posts for Your Weekend

• Twitter Inching Closer To Giving You All Your Tweets, But Search Has A Long Way To Go – Search Engine Land
Twitter’s finally giving the people what they want: a way for users to search through their own history of tweets. While it seems like a pretty basic function for any blogging platform to implement, Search Engine Land’s list of current Twitter search engines shows how the company has been bafflingly negligent thus far.
• The USA Basketball Team’s Instagram Shots Are Ridiculously Awesome – Mashable
[Read more]Posted on Friday, July 27th, 2012
Design Theory: Upgrading Your Site With a Font Facelift
SEO tactics work behind the scenes, pulling the Google puppet strings with keywords and coding wizardry. Congratulations! Your website traffic has doubled, and your site has more hits than a barroom brawl! However, while getting visitors is great, keeping visitors is better — and a pleasing, non-eye-searing website design can be crucial when you’re trying to win a potential customer’s trust.
With each installment of SI Design Theory, we’ll talk about a few simple styling tricks that you can implement in order to make your website more inviting. This week, we’ll be talking about fonts: the most basic element of any web design.
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By Kate Voisin
Posted on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
With each installment of SI Design Theory, we’ll talk about a few simple styling tricks that you can implement in order to make your website more inviting. This week, we’ll be talking about fonts: the most basic element of any web design.
Posted on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Infographic: New Orleans Hotels on the Parade Route

The Mardi Gras Survival Guide and New Orleans Hotels on the Parade Route, Courtesy of NewOrleans.com
It’s your first time in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, you say? Oh, dear. It’s likely that you’ll be overwhelmed by the spectacle, even if you’ve seen many celebrations in many other countries before. After all, everywhere you look there are parades, costumes, beads being hurled, and all other manner of unfamiliar customs. You know, like women taking their shirts off at a moment’s notice in exchange for small trinkets. Yes, hide the children (or at least be prepared to shield their eyes at the speed of light!)
[Read more]Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
INFOGRAPHIC: We Come From The Future
For people born of a certain generation, “The Kids Are Alright,” is mainly a reference to a seminal work by The Who, which they originally heard on vinyl. For a later generation, this phrase was likely linked to The Offspring’s “The Kids Aren’t Alright,” passed around via mix CD. And in five years, “The Kids Are All Right,” will probably be remembered as a groundbreaking film most people will see after they’ve downloaded or streamed it online.
Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Courtroom & Boardroom - Google Acquisitions 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
References
- List of acquisitions by Google
- German Govt. Says Google Analytics Now Verboten
- Europe Inquiry Focuses on Google Business Practice
- Google Says “Ciao” To Antitrust Claim In Italy
- Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation
- Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court
- Microsoft Comes Out Of Shadows With EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google
- Gov’t To Okay Google-ITA Deal After Google Agrees To Burdensome Conditions
- Google Admeld Deal To Get DOJ Review
- Google Antitrust Case – Google+ Defiant in the Shadow of Harvey Birdman
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By Kate Voisin
Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2011
References
- List of acquisitions by Google
- German Govt. Says Google Analytics Now Verboten
- Europe Inquiry Focuses on Google Business Practice
- Google Says “Ciao” To Antitrust Claim In Italy
- Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation
- Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court
- Microsoft Comes Out Of Shadows With EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google
- Gov’t To Okay Google-ITA Deal After Google Agrees To Burdensome Conditions
- Google Admeld Deal To Get DOJ Review
- Google Antitrust Case – Google+ Defiant in the Shadow of Harvey Birdman
Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2011








