South Florida Web Marketing Blog

I had a conversation with a client today CaddyForACure.com and during the discussion I stumbled across  a rather discriminatory practice by Google with their Pay Per Click marketing.

It appears that the problem is based on browsers.

I conducted a search for a famous PGA Golfer – Sergio Garcia with Firefox Version 3.6.2. The Natural Result came up but no PPC ads – my client has an PPC ad with the keyword Sergio Garcia. Even after refreshing the Firefox browser 10 times – still no PPC ad.

Then I tested the Microsoft Browser version 8 and ran the same query for Sergio Garcia. The PPC ad for Sergio Garcia came up on the first try and every try there after.

Firefox:

Microsoft:

Try it yourself. Why does the Firefox Browser not see the same results as the Microsoft Browser? Is it some sort of discriminatory practice, or a software glitch?

Pano2VR is a nice product capable of creating an incredible illusion.

Pano2VR for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux is an application to convert spherical or cylindrical panoramic images into QuickTime VR (QTVR) or Adobe Flash 8 and Flash 9 & 10 formats with features such as customizable skins, hotspots and directional sound.

http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php

Beautiful Sample
http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/paris.htm

Input Formats

Pano2VR supports cylindrical, spherical (equirectangular), cube faces, cross, T, strip and QuickTime VR as input formats with the added ability to convert between these formats for retouching the cube faces. Supported file formats are JPEG, PNG, TIFF (8, 16 or 32 bits per channel), OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, and QuickTime VR files encoded with JPEG.

If you got nothing to do – this is a fresh way to watch Social Networking in action:

http://spy.appspot.com/

Spy can listen in on the social media conversations you’re interested in.

It is powered by:

• Twitter via Twitter Search
• FriendFeed via FriendFeed
• Flickr via Flickr
• Blog Comments via BackType
• Yahoo News via Yahoo! Search BOSS™
• Blogs (RSS) via FriendFeed
• Google Reader via FriendFeed

spy.appspot.com was created by Ben Hedrington

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Technorati is one of the larger Social Networking sites on the Internet. Getting your Blog posts listed on it can really help your rankings and getting your blog posts found.

Guidelines for Florida Lawyer and Law Firm Websites

Approved by The Standing Committee on Advertising
(January 1, 2010)

Effective July 1, 2010, lawyer and law firm websites must comply with the general lawyer advertising requirements set forth in Rule 4-7.2, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. Although websites must comply with these requirements, they are not required to be filed with The Florida Bar for review. Rule 4-7.8(f), Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. The Florida Bar Board of Governors has adopted a policy that The Florida Bar will not accept voluntary filings of the entire contents of a lawyer or law firm website, although staff of the Ethics and Advertising Department will respond to specific questions involving a specific phrase or image to be included on a website. To make such an inquiry, please call the Ethics and Advertising Department at (800) 235-8619.

Click here for the Guidelines for Lawyer and Law Firm Websites

Additional information:

Lawyer Regulations

Lawyer advertising and business solicitation are strictly regulated by The Florida Bar. Lawyer advertising can provide crucial information about legal rights and increases access to lawyers for the public. Visit this link for more information:  Advertising Regulation

Guidelines for social networking sites

Guidelines for video sharing sites

Examples of complying and noncomplying ads

Quick Reference Checklist – Websites

Quick Reference Checklist – Direct E-mail Ads

Quick Reference Checklist – Other Internet Ads

The Handbook on Lawyer Advertising and SolicitationThe handbook has been updated to include the most recent amendments to the lawyer advertising rules, including changes to Rule 4-7.6 on computer accessed communications (effective January 1, 2010) and changes to other lawyer advertising rules from the 2008 Master Rules filing (effective February 1, 2010). The quick reference checklists have been updated to include these amendments as well. To obtain the full handbook, please download both the handbook
and the examples of complying and noncomplying ads.

The Florida Bar
651 E. Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2300
(850) 561-5600