16 Google easter eggs for, well, Easter [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / April 15, 2014Google is one of those rare breed of company that has managed to keep its sense of humor despite growing to monstrous, 1984 proportions. As a pun on the Easter holiday, Mental Floss points out these sixteen Google easter eggs. While you may already know the “do a barrel roll” easter egg––search that and Google will actually spin around, for those of you who didn’t know that––you probably didn’t know that you can search back in time!
Read MoreHow to build a brand of awesomeness [infographic]
Posted by staff / January 6, 2014An infographic on How to Build an Online Community by the team at Mack Web Solutions There are lots of benefits to building a community around your company, but here are a few: 1. It will help you weather Google’s algorithms Building an online community is one of the best ways to weather Google’s algorithms. …
Read MoreGoogle’s 200 ranking factors: The complete list [infographic]
Posted by staff / November 30, 2013Google’s stayed mum of the secret of their rankings, but Single Grain and Backlinko have compiled the most complete information they can find on the Internet to expose the secret of ranking success. Via Search Engine Journal. The infographic guide to Google.
Read More10 tools to protect yourself from content theft
Posted by staff / July 29, 2013If you’ve put the effort into writing a stellar blog post, the last thing you want to find out is that someone else is reaping the rewards of your content. Everyone who blogs will likely experience this frustration at one point or another, so Adam Connell of Bloggingwizard.com wrote a guest post at Problogger explaining …
Read MoreIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Google Internet balloon!
Posted by staff / June 16, 2013If there are two things in the world that make us happy, they’re balloons and a reliable Internet connection, and leave it to Google to combine the two. According to Geekosystem’s Glen Tickle: If you live in an area that’s under-served by modern Internet infrastructure, you’re kind of missing out. The Internet is great, but you’re …
Read MoreHoly kaw, even the figure skaters in Canada are tough!
Posted by staff / May 28, 2013This is Dorothy Skonieczka of Google Waterloo. More hockey.
Read MoreGuitars made of skateboards
Posted by staff / March 26, 2013What a great idea: combining rocking and skating. Ezequiel Galasso and Gianfranco de Gennaro started a company called Skate Guitars in Buenos Aires to do this. Full story at Makezine. Skateboarding and guitars.
Read MoreDid you know? March 20th is the International Day of Happiness?
Posted by staff / March 20, 2013The United Nations declared “March 20 the International Day of Happiness recognizing the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives.” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do …
Read MoreHow to make a wooden bathtub
Posted by staff / March 5, 2013There’s something so satisfying about making something out of wood. Check out these photos. Woodworking
Read MoreThere are supposed to be 52 differences between the right and left side of this building…
Posted by staff / February 24, 2013There are supposed to be 52 differences between the right and left side of this building at UCLA. Can you spot them all? (Actually, you probably can’t because of the way I took the picture, but you should see a bunch.)
Read MoreThe making of Mt. Rushmore
Posted by staff / February 19, 2013The project took fourteen years: 1927-1941. It is 60 feet tall and 185 feet wide. Most of the sculpturing was done with dynamite. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/02/pictures/130216-presidents-day-mount-rushmore-photography-pictures-south-dakota (Shared using )
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