Mike Seidle ...notes from the road

I've been missing working with the Opera Browser since I went MS free a year ago. They've just released a new version for Linux which gives us yet another great web browser option. What makes Opera unique is it's usability combined with features like speed dial, widgets (HTML widgets for you desktop) and possibly the best password and RSS integration in any browser. Opera is also a bit of a throwback - it contains full email, IRC and usenet capabilities, much like browsers that trace their roots back to 1994-1997.

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t’s impossible to gaze into a crystal ball and see the future of Internet marketing. But it is possible to see the writing on the wall, and to be ready to change your marketing strategies.

Pay-per-click advertising continues to increase in cost, and its effectiveness is waning. It’s not dead, however; buyers are still searching – but competition has caused an inflation in the cost of clicks, and

SEO brings you traffic for free. I’ve already extolled the virtues of a properly optimized site. As far as traffic goes, you can’t beat it for the price.

Here's a great tool I've found for distributing press releases for free : Free Press Release.

It reminds me of PR Web back in the old days when they were free, too.

Wonder what people on the internet are really thinking about right now?  Ask Google and Yahoo.  Both search engines report daily on the hottest search terms daily.

Yahoo Buzz
Google Trends: May 28, 2007

For anyone even a little confused here is the best explanation yet:
The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding | Ads of the World

It's been about ten years since Micro­soft bundled Internet Explorer 3 into Windows 98 and monopolized the web browser.  Now Firefox is quickly eating into Microsoft's market share.