Refuge Design

something that motivates me is ideas and visions. I love the idea of starting something, I'm not a finisher but I love getting things rolling. I'm not sure if you'd call this a visionary, pioneer, or whatever. But I love hearing ideas and concepts, even better, I love creating them. Vision casting for clients excites me. Continue reading

I overheard on Twitter from NewEdgeMedia(& Twitter Account) about an affiliate program. They said: Want to earn 18% Commission on sales? Sign up for the PrintPlace.com Affiliate Program: http://xr.com/printplaceaffiliates So I decided to check them out, as a company (which any smart affiliate would do). I wanted to know how big this company is, do they have a great site, is it easy to sell...you know asking… Continue reading

Rob Snell sent a message on Twitter (he tweeted this): robsnell: Just got my #pubcon transcript. Email me or DM for a copy. It's rednecktastic! I went CRAZY giving away secrets. Was I on crack? I was intrigued by his comment, so I emailed him and he sent me a rough copy of his Pubcon Transcript (If you want a copy, email rob [at] ystore [dot] com)… Continue reading

Someone tweeted this and I had to make a post on this, it's just hilarious. The Simpsons and their play on Steve Jobs and Apple called Steve Mobs and Mapple. Take 7 minutes and have a laugh! Postscript: The Simpsons pulled DMCA on Youtube and took the video off. So, here is hulu's counter part. Just watch the first few minutes and the last few and you'll get the ghist ;)… Continue reading

These 5 videos are amazingly funny. Take the time to watch them all, it only takes about half an hour. It covers G Maps, Google Moon, My Maps, Google SMS, and Google Mobile. Just some quality funny stuff done by the Vacationeers. Google Maps staulks you. Google Moon, Hoax, FBI comes after you Google My Maps, Caught girl cheat, double homicide, google knew the future Google SMS, texting google for a movie. Google Mobile… Continue reading

Since latest August of this year, over 56,000 layoffs have occurred according to TechCrunch but I think it's much more than what they've listed in this chart below. Continue reading

That was a great message on third world statistics. It's something I've heard about vaguely but never that eloquently presented before. He even made fun of previous statisticians by saying "how do they try to motivate us? bullet points, lol". It's very true but not just for statisticians, I think it's true for almost any industry and many non-profits (being one who tried starting up one). I think, there are two things we can draw from phenomenal presentation: Continue reading

I came across a half-way decent blog post and would like to share some gems I drew out of it. Continue reading

This is huge news, a professional organization of Search Marketers, will be ringing the bell at NASDAQ on December 1st, 2008. The organization is called SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, started around 2002. From their site they say their mission is: SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry and marketing professionals engaged in it. Continue reading

Dave Snyder, of Snydey Sense, created this great video called "Manly Man's SEO in a Box". This video breaks down how to do SEO. All the tools you need are in this box, I already bought 5,000 boxes for my clients. The results we saw so far have been amazing, over 20 billion page views. :) Continue reading

Microsoft is doing pretty good for itself, even in search. Although they are stuck back in the 1990's of search technology, they are innovating and trying out new things. Currently based on a mix of studies, MSN + Live, Microsoft has 10% of the search market and are currently, the 3rd most used search engine, behind Yahoo and some un-known company named Oogle or something. :) They have also been gaining influences and reach, in the search market, over the years. Yahoo is on a steady decline and Oogle :) is still increasing twice the rate of Microsoft. Continue reading

On Nov. 22nd, 2008 at 8pm EST till 10pm, YouTube hosted it's first real-life event. When I popped in, to check things out. I was asking myself, 'Will YouTube need a bailout after this performance?' Lol. No seriously, when I watched about 20 minutes of the event, I must've got the short end of the stick because I thought it was horrible and a huge waste of money. I held this belief for about 5 hours and then decided to see what they called 'highlights' of the night. Wow! After watching some of the highlights, I immediately changed my opinion from negativity to neutral. YouTube Live had some great moments, some were funny, others were just very entertaining, and of course it had it's boring and 'why is that on the air' moments. Continue reading