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2011 Year in Review in Internet Marketing & Website Properties

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, Web Development, What's Buzzing on 2012-01-03

2011 saw continued growth in the web. Reflecting on 2011, industry press was focused on social media and the mobile web. Search engines ramped up efforts to clean their search results of spam. We also had many patent issues, IPOs …

Canada’s Election 2011 Web Popularity Poll

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, What's Buzzing on 2011-04-13

The Canadian federal election is now underway. Similar to the Toronto’s mayor web popularity poll conducted last December, we wanted to evaluate web popularity vs. a correlation to the leading candidate. This effort is to answer the question: If positive …

2010's Biggest Flops: Website & Internet Marketing Madness

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, What's Buzzing on 2010-12-21

In the midst of the web’s continual innovations, advancements and growth, there have been some major blunders along the way. 2010 has had its fair share of blunders; mostly around the social media and privacy realm. We keep a close …

Voting With Your Eyes: Social Media & Web Popularity in Politics

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, What's Buzzing on 2010-11-01

While measuring a heated political race in Toronto, all social media factors pointed to a particular candidate to win – except one. Is YouTube an indicator of political influence more powerful than other social media outlets, or is there something …

Winning the Toronto mayoral race, if it was based on Internet popularity

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Internet Marketing, What's Buzzing on 2010-10-21

President Obama broke new ground with the use of the web and social media tools to connect to the voters. Toronto is currently undergoing its own elections for mayor and we wanted to see if the new candidates are utilizing …

Social Commerce – A new online business model gaining momentum

Posted By Ezra Silverton in eCommerce, What's Buzzing on 2010-08-20

With the help of social networking tools, there’s a new business ecommerce model being utilized by many entrepreneurs and companies that want to test new products.…

Don't Let HST Catch You by Surprise

Posted By admin in eCommerce, What's Buzzing on 2010-03-08

HST Checklist for Your Business.

As an Ontario or British Columbia business owner you may already be considering the effects of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on your company come this summer. In the broadest of terms, many businesses with …

New Facebook Application Lets Members Pay for Events

Posted By Ezra Silverton in What's Buzzing on 2009-10-21

Canadian Facebook members who want to sell tickets or share the costs of an event, gift, or group vacation now have a web application solution that takes care of it.…

Guest Writers Wanted for Canadian Web Design, Development & Internet Marketing Blog

Posted By Ezra Silverton in What's Buzzing on 2009-10-19

9th sphere’s blog is a destination for website best practices and Canadian related news for website owners and web specialties. We have focused on providing valuable content about the business of web, with supported case studies, news stories, and examples.…