Consumer online shopping to go up 24%

Online merchants can expect to see an increase in sales compared to the previous quarter, according to a survey by Javelin Strategy & Research releases by eBillme. Online shoppers are predicting that they will spend and average of $281 during the fourth quarter of 2009, a 24 percent increase over the last quarter. This is the first increase of online spending since last year, but also a 18 percent... [Read more]

Google’s Social Search Makes It’s Debut Today!

Google announced last week at the Web 2.0 summit that it was working on a social search feature, but also stated that it will be weeks before it went public. Social search taps into your social networks profiles and then displays relevant links and status updates from all your friends across your social profiles have shared and then displays them at the bottom of the search page. Google states that,... [Read more]

Client Testimonial Campersmusthaves.com

I just wanted to say that Anthony Orlando has been great. He’s helped me in many ways. I want you to know how valuable he’s been to me and my company.   Things are starting to turn around with my company. Traffic is increasing and I’m getting a lot of exposure to my web store. www. Campersmusthaves.com. He has also helped me get onto the first page on the search engine results. Thank you... [Read more]

Client testimonial thesilkeffect.com

Hi: 38SearchMedia Customer Service is a word everyone banters around these days but not too many are really interested in providing. I’d like to thank Anthony Orlando on not only the excellent customer service he’s provided to us but I’d also like to thank him for his talent and his expertise which is clearly displayed in the design of our blog. We love it. It looks outstanding and... [Read more]

Skittles social media make over.

More and more companies are starting to realize that the content they offer on their site will not match up to the social media sites out there, where the community contributes to the content. Several, on the other hand, have gone to great lengths like candy company Skittles, which redesigned their entire homepage with Twitter’s search stream. The only thing remaining on the homepage is a little... [Read more]

Twello adds new Twitter features.

Twellow is expanding into different areas of Twitters functions. Today a new feature was announced/launched, which makes it easier to search among your followers and friends. With the launch of Twellow’s new followers and friends features, now you can look at your current social graph of tweeple that you are tracking via the familiar Twellow profile lists. Being able to search within your followers... [Read more]

Every one on Twitter welcomes Google.

Google has finally decided to open a Twitter account. It is attached to a random googler and the bio states “news and updates form Google”. The first tweet was created around 7pm EST last night, and Google already has 24,149 followers. They are following 58 other people mostly fellow Googlers, and Googles products. Biz stone, Evan Williams, Pete Cashmore. The Google Twitter account was long... [Read more]

Ning Launches new chat features.

Tonight: Ning will be introducing some new chat functions, giving Ning administrators the ability to integrate a rich chat environment for their users. Ning’s new chat system is flash-based, allowing users to have a chat bar along the bottom of the screen. Users have the ability to chat through an interface at the bottom of the screen, or can pop-out their chats into a new windows. Although... [Read more]

Google Maps makes a minor tweak.

Last Tuesday Google Maps made a small tweak, finally. Now, instead of showing just the top ten results for local search on the map, now it shows all of them. It’s still going to show you the top ten with the map markers, but now little circles will also show up, showing all the other places that may be closer but did not show up before. This will be good for smaller businesses and smaller restaurants... [Read more]

The creator of ShareThis widget that allows you to easily share content via the major social networks, has just announced newer version with more features!

The new version is available in limited Beta, but will come out to the general public in the next several weeks. Once it comes out, expect a lot more sharing going on. CEO Tim Schigel says “we see that sharing frequency increases 5 times when users leverage tools like ShareThis with access to their contacts and friends” ShareThis is featured in tens of thousand of sites including NFL, MTV, TechCrunch,... [Read more]

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