Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

Now this is something I’ve been waiting for my whole life. Do you have a situation where protocol requires placing a phone call, but you really would prefer not having to talk to the person on the other end? For instance, perhaps you caught something “social” during a trip to Vegas a few weeks back and need to alert an ex-girlfriend?

This is where Slydial comes in: even if the person on the other end is present and willing to answer the phone, Slydial sends you straight to voicemail. So the other person thinks they dropped the call and you get off scot-free without having to confront a potentially awkward phone conversation.
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Microsoft’s new ad push is called the “Mojave Experiment,” and the point is this: due to bad word of mouth, people have poor thoughts about Windows Vista, but when they actually use it (under a different name, Mojave) they think it’s God’s gift to operating systems.

It is true that Vista (which I admit I also have a limited, but largely positive, experience with) gets railed on by a lot of people who aren’t sure why it’s so terrible. But there is a reason for this: when Vista was released and people upgraded their computers from XP, stuff quit working. Hardware, games, everything: kaput.
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Multiply is one of those social networks you don’t hear much about, drowned out by the loud buzz of MySpace and Facebook. But Multiply has slowly built a loyal and active user base, and is attempting to monetize by offering high-volume media storage that never expires and ad-free usage for $20 a year.

Attempting to be the “adult” alternative to the mega-sites out there, Multiply is drawing in a good number of users in their upper-20’s to mid-30’s. Assuming users of this age group are more likely to shell out for a premium service, Multiply’s answer to the monetization question is built on the back of this perceived loyalty and maturity.
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The countdown begins: TomCruise.com is launching on Monday morning.

Certainly, this is the biggest moment in the history of the Web. Forget Web 2.0, we now have Web Tom.0.

The page currently has a countdown clock on it, and nothing else, that glows strangely whenever the number ‘25′ ticks by on the seconds clock. Perhaps this represents the number of people left in the world who don’t think Tom is nuts.
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You heard it right: the potentially lucrative domain name “pizza.com” was sold in an auction for $2.6 million.

The man who owned the domain, Chris Clark of Maryland, paid $20 for it in 1994 and has maintained the site for the last 14 years at a price of $20 per year. Not a bad return on his investment.

His main regret is not registering more domain names when the web was just starting up in 1994.

Clark, the former owner of a consulting firm, hoped the site would get him deals with a big pizza maker, but he was unable to get any takers. He had been using the site for advertising over the last several years, but his interest was piqued when he saw that vodka.com sold for $3 million. So he put it up for auction on Sedo last month.
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