Feel the beep: This album is played entirely on a PC motherboard speaker

If you’re craving a truly different sound with which to slay the crew this weekend, look no further than System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit — though you may have to drag your old 486 out of storage to play it. Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music is produced entirely...
Posted On 09 Feb 2019
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Google Ads conversion rates by industry: How do you compare?

Google Ads is an expensive game if you get it wrong. So, we figure you’re doing what you can to measure the performance of your campaigns. But just how are you doing that? Our best guess is you’re using your own historical data to measure your success. Of course, the inbuilt...
Posted On 07 Feb 2019
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Why Is the Ocean Different Colors in Different Places?

The current patterns of the southwestern Indian Ocean as seen by the SeaWiFS satellite. Along with nutrients from the volcanic island soils and runoff of seabird and seal guano from rain, we see high chlorophyll and phytoplankton concentrations, which tint the water green in...
Posted On 06 Feb 2019
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Survey: Local SEO an ‘artisanal’ discipline dominated by small agencies

A new survey from BrightLocal offers a window into the state of agencies doing local SEO. The survey polled roughly 650 digital agencies, SEO freelancers and in-house marketers from small businesses and enterprises. The results overall describe a market segment that faces...
Posted On 05 Feb 2019
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Targeted SEO: Here’s how to grow a page from 200 visits per month to 30,000

Pages need to be optimized, linkable and have search opportunity to grow. Andrew Dennis on January 30, 2019 at 10:04 am MORE Spoiler alert: SEO works. Strategic, targeted SEO can drive huge results for the right pages. Of course, the catch here is that you need the “right” pages...
Posted On 05 Feb 2019
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Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality

Bird’s electric scooters were on full display at the Upfront Summit in Malibu last week, a two-day event that brings together the likes of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC’s elite. Not only were a dozen or so brand spanking new scooters available to ride throughout...
Posted On 04 Feb 2019
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Twilio closes acquisition of email specialist SendGrid in all-stock deal now worth $3B

  Twilio’s bid to become the go-to platform for all of a business’s external communication needs took a big step ahead today. The company said that it has closed its acquisition of email specialist SendGrid. First announced four months ago, Twilio today said the all-stock...
Posted On 01 Feb 2019
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