Converse Dominates Search

Sports shoe brand Converse bought AdWords against popular searches from teen­agers that aren’t cur­rently being competed for, com­piling the list using Google Zeitgeist. Things like ‘how to kiss’, ‘summer solstice’ and ‘spelling bee’. Then they created single-​​​​page websites against this whole series of terms — some­times just funny one-​​​​liners, some­times useful.

Converse Domaination

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Anti-​​Social Bookmarking

It’s been a little while since I wrote on this topic, but social (and not-​​​​so-​​​​social) book­marking is on the rise again.

Remember Diigo, Blinklist and Magnolia from all of two years ago? No? And at least 122 others who wanted to become the social book­marking standard. They all lost to deli­cious and

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