Entries from October 2006 ↓

CBS has been loading YouTube with classic sports moments, including the greatest bowl comeback ever in sports? (They say it’s the BYU/SMU game where BYU was down 20 points with minutes to go). I think the Red Sox 2004 ALCS win is the greatest comeback ever.

Watch Cougartown great Jim McMahon (Chicago Bears) come back to beat NFL legend Eric Dickerson.

Must have skills:
HTML, PHP, CSS, Photoshop and Flash. The more, the better. And as a joke, Chris on our Web team says you must be a ninja at Word and Excel.

Contact me.

Best place you’ll ever work. Period.

I hear a lot of talk about how great PRWeb is for online PR, but I have seen better SEO results from other (but similar) services. I think PRWeb is generally a better solution because they offer so much more in terms of additional services, but as for SEO results . . . you decide.

I am going to post the names of other online press release services, but I’m doing this with the expectation that the sites don’t get abused because when they get abused they start to have little use. And the winners are . . .

- PRLeap and PRZoom. These sites are strict on what they allow to be published (like PRWeb), and you generally have a two-day wait for your news release to go live unless you want to sponsor or pay for quicker approval. These aren’t the only ones out there, but if you do a little searching you will find them.

I’ve heard rumor of this before, but it’s for real now. BYU is suing Pfizer over claims that it and a professor were responsible for research that lead to what has become a $20 billion drug.

via KSL

In connection to Chris Knudsen’s post about how “We all work in sales,” Seth Godin says everybody is a marketer, and I couldn’t agree more.

“Every person is a marketer, and anyone crazy enough and passionate enough to start something is definitely a marketer.

Here’s to some amazing Utah marketers like Ryan Money of HireVue, Josh Steimle of MWI, Blake Snow of Griffio, Brock Blake of FundingUniverse and a host of other Utah Entrepreneurs that may not categorize theselves as marketers but do that very thing by virtue of being passionate about their business.

“… labels hope Microsoft’s Zune or another entity will eventually mount a successful enough challenge to Apple that it will force Steve Jobs to open the iPod to competing services.”

Not going to happen. iTunes is the Microsoft Windows for digital music. That’s why this isn’t going to happen. Don’t forget that iTunes isn’t just a store; it’s the most widely used music mangement software around.

via [ Reuters ]

Sometimes I get really curious on the search terms people use online. Some words like viagra obviously get a lot of attention based on the amount of spam for such things, but what about the off-the-wall phrases like funki web design (mispelled) or gogle instead of google?

This post is merely a test. I’ve done it before, but I am curious what will happen. Nothing will happen with gogle I am sure, but funki web design? A few web firms out there are targeting this term for those that lack spelling ability.

Update: I know some of you are probably resisting the urge to blog about how Google bought YouTube, but why? Figure out a way to tell a different angle of the story and add your two cents to the discussion. We all learn from it . . . In the words of Kris Beldin, here’s my two cents on the New York Times’ take on the buyout.

Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube
“A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990’s dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday.”

I’m tired of all the profitless claims about YouTube. Where do people get their info? YouTube has been running ads for months, they have coveted eyeball traffic, and they just made more than $100 million per month in arrears. Congrats to Steven Chen and Chad Hurley for creating something that millions of people use worldwide.

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