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 I can hardly wait to pass the word around and see what our friends and family think. When you add that he’s given us instructions on how to complete each step with patience and professionalism then that spells “Customer Service”.
Thank you Anthony.
BJ Williamson
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www.thesilkeffect.com
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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 overdue, but well liked as the number of followers shows you. First of all, this enables Google to have yet another outlet for distributing updates about the company.
The list of follower is a good way to find other Googlers to follow like Matt Cutts @mattcutts. The Google product accounts like Google Reader are not just throwing links to their blog posts either. For every one that want to keep up with every Google detail, this is the account to follow.
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 the interface will remain consistant through out each netowork, users are not able to chat with users out side of the current network they are on.
Putting Ning’s growth in chat aside, Ning has been posting really impressive stats recently, they have grown to 4.8 million uniques in january ( 368% growth year over year) even though they recenty banned pornography networks, and we all know porn used to be the most sought out thing online, until recently when social networks passed it up!
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 to gain visibility. But it currently does not work on mobile devises or other websites, Google says that other domains that use Google maps will not be supported yet but in the future. For now, the only way to see these new results are by going to Google Maps search page.
