Opinions, Reviews, & Musings of the ZooKeeper
This is Part 2 in the series. If you haven’t already, please read Part 1, Using Amazon Product Images Effectively. After seeing images with borders and drop shadows on a friend’s lens, I looked at the source code for her page, and ‘reverse-engineered’ the image commands. The thing was, there were other things I wanted to [...]
If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Shouldn’t your product images be enticing whether you’ve created a sales page for a specific niche, or added a few related products to an information page? Well, it can be with just a little effort, and the addition of Amazon’s own image commands. This series concentrates on [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “For Someone Special, Or For Yourself, 23 Unusual Gifts” I’m not quite sure how to categorize this video. It’s definitely funny, yet you may find something here that you decide you have to have. It’s not a particularly good video technically, and it uses photos and Camtasia-like screen captures [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “Google Features Lady Gaga In Chrome Browser Commercial” Speaking of Lady Gaga, have you seen the Google Chrome commercial that plays like a Lady Gaga music video? I’m not a Lady Gaga fan. I think her reliance on the costumes and props takes away from her significant talent. But [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “Google Goes Social With The +1 Button For Web Sites.” Before there was Facebook, Twitter, ‘Social Bookmarking” and other social media sites, Google pioneered ‘Social Proof’ in the form of Page Rank. By looking at a site’s incoming links, Google was able to provide the most relevant search results. [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “Google Chrome Commercial: Dear Sophie” This is one of those commercials where they get it right: the right blend of product and benefits, and the right blend of techno-savvy and sentimentality. I’ve seen this on TV several times, and it never fails to elicit an emotional response from me. [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “Store Your Music In The Cloud With Google Music Beta” Google announced the new service earlier today at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. The service, which actually launched on Tuesday, is by invitation only at this point, but you can request an invitation at Google. It [...]
Click Here to Watch The Video: “Add Google Toolbar Instant To Internet Explorer” Google Chrome has a cool optional feature that provides Google Instant results without having to be on the Google site. Now the Google Toolbar brings that same functionality to Internet Explorer browsers. And it’s optional, so you don’t have to use it. [...]