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Home    ¤    Digital Asset Management    ¤   Beam. What are feeds? I see "RSS", "XML", and "Atom" out there, but I don't know how I might use these links when I find them. Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere.

What Does This Mean? You may recognize the universal feed icon or these "chicklets" from your favorite websites, blogs, and podcasts. Why is This a Good Thing? Consumer Bottom Line: Subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review a large amount of online content in a very short time. Who publishes feeds? How do I read feeds? Show me what a typical feed reader looks like. Frequency. Website Strategy | Blast Advanced Media. Website Strategy & Consulting We'll work with both your company's key stakeholders and target audience to help you develop a clear web site strategy that will allow you to better: Identify your Key Goals & Objectives Understand your Target Audience's Needs & Wants Identify your Road Blocks Assess your Competition Assess your Marketing Campaigns Identify & Measure the Correct Web Site Success Metrics (i.e.

KPIs) Track & Improve your Lead and Sales Generation (i.e. Conversion Rate) Benchmark & Measure your Progress toward Meeting your Goals Web Site Analytics & Key Performance Indicators Assumptions are very dangerous and can lead to disasterous results on the web. Some common Key Performance Indicators based on web site type include: Usability Reviews Too often web sites are never properly tested before they launch.

Site Improvement Checklists As part of any strategic or consulting service we provide easy to follow checklists. Key Tactics. Clients / Case Study / Overland. Wireless Networking: The Gaping Maw of the Brave New Mobile-Everything World. "The change from voice-only to voice and data consumption has put a strain on mobile networks, and that is one of the big challenges going forward: how to satisfy the hunger for more and more bandwidth on mobile devices," said Neil Strother, practice director at ABI Research. ManageEngine OpManager, a powerful NMS for monitoring your network, physical & virtual (VMware/ HyperV) servers, apps & other IT devices. Deploy and start monitoring in less than an hour.

Trusted by over a million admins worldwide. Try it for free. Every year since 2001 has been hailed as the year of mobile. But after years of hype and over-revved anticipation, the year of mobile may never come to be. Instead, it looks as though this is the year mobile will morph into something else entirely. "Not only will mobile phones be smartphones -- consumer electronics will also be 'smart connected devices.' Snapshot of the Connected Generation Cellphone providers, however, will fall noticeably short. Disenchanted Consumers. E-Commerce: E-Commerce Growing at a Good Clip, but Many Consumers Still Don't Get It. Despite steady growth, e-commerce still accounts for a relatively small share of the overall retail market, and that's not likely to change significantly in the near term. "It needs time and education," said In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor. "Most people don't know that you can buy just about anything -- and I do -- from Amazon, including car parts, office supplies, food and household items.

This is the educational part. " Webinar: The New PCI 3.0 Standard Learn the steps to take to get your company ready for PCI DSS 3.0 changes coming January 2015. We cover all of the details you need to know as we head to the deadline to complete and pass your PCI DSS 3.0 audit. E-commerce is growing, but it's no longer on fire. U.S. e-commerce sales grew 12.6 percent in 2010, reaching $176 billion. Another boost to e-commerce is due to traditional brick-and-mortar stores creating a bigger and better online and social media presence. Can't You See the Savings? Habits Don't Change Easily. Forecast of eCommerce Sales in 2011 and Beyond.

As we look toward a better economic climate coming in to 2011, Forrester, a research company, is predicting that online sales will average a 10% growth over the next 5 years. While we saw an economic downturn in 2008, eCommerce has remained one of the only positives in the market and in the last quarter of 2010, particularly December 2010, eCommerce saw a great boost from the holidays. “…Forrester projects that online retail sales in the U.S. will increase 11.98% this year compared with 2010, to $197.3 billion from $176.2 billion.

The annual rate of increase will decline slightly each of the next several years, with online retail sales in 2015 rising 7.81% over 2014, to $278.9 billion from $258.7 billion, Forrester projects. That represents a 9.62% compound annual growth rate for the U.S. over the five-year forecast period. An increase in eCommerce is due to the growing global expansion of eCommerce and many internet retailers will keep expanding their business abroad. Spam: Microsoft Beheads Rustock. Microsoft took the lead in a joint effort with law enforcement officials to dismantle the notorious Rustock botnet, said to be responsible for roughly half the spam clogging email in-boxes in 2010. "Microsoft and its allies applied a combination of technical know-how, sophisticated investigation and analysis, and legal muscle to take down Rustock.

I expect we'll see them pursue similar efforts in the future," said Pund-IT analyst Charles King. Webinar: The New PCI 3.0 Standard Learn the steps to take to get your company ready for PCI DSS 3.0 changes coming January 2015. We cover all of the details you need to know as we head to the deadline to complete and pass your PCI DSS 3.0 audit.

View the PCI Webinar Series Now. Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents have taken down the Rustock botnet, which had about a million infected computers under its control. A botnet consists of an infrastructure of computers that have been hacked to send out large amounts of spam. Fall of a Top Spammer. What Consumers Want From Brands Online | Digital.