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What happened to Evite?

September 26, 2009

Evite is great. Its great if you want a standalone invite system for your party that doesn't integrate with where everyone else is on the internet. Why haven't they built a Facebook app or integration? What is wrong with them. Facebook is the ultimate fit for someone like Evite. As my friend over at andrewmachado.com said in his post about how terrible the Facebook event app is, why haven't they built an integration or app on Facebook. Evite does things that Facebook Events doesn't do well. This post is more about an observation than any suggestions but come on get your act together Evite and innovate like the rest of the internet.

Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Social Media

SES San Jose Day 2

August 14, 2009

Day two of SES San Jose was a significant improvement over day one. The session I attended with Tim Ash, the leader in landing page optimization, was facinating. I loved his thoughts on ways to approach this amazingly important aspect of SEM. I could really see how powerful of a subject this was as the room was completely full with many people standing just to see him speak.

After his session, and the extremely lacking lunch, the keynote session began. This came with high hopes as the speaker...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Search Marketing

SES San Jose Day 1

August 12, 2009

If I had to explain SES San Jose's first day I would definitely describe it as underwhelming. Of the sessions that I attended there was very little actionable discussion going on. Much of what I heard was very high level explanation of what things are. There wasn't a whole lot of new best practices. I was hoping that maybe i just missed the good sessions but after speaking with a few colleagues here I learned that I wasn't alone. This can be expected however at such a large conference such a...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Search Marketing

God We're Fat!

August 6, 2009

There is no getting around it, America is fat, not just fat, morbidly obese. It's disgusting, and I feel like I can say that without prejudice because i was one of those useless fatties. A short 7 months ago I was tipping the scale at 310 and doing nothing about it except eating and drinking more. I finally have gotten my act together and am down 75 lbs to a more healthy manageable weight (thanks to Jumpstart Medicine). As an avid food lover I am constantly watching the Food Network learning ...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Rants

Last.fm is King of Internet Radio

August 5, 2009

When it comes to listening to music that I don't actually own in my library nothing beats podcasts in my eyes. However, those will often get old or sometimes I just want some variety. When this happens, and it happens often, I turn to Last.fm. I of course have tried Pandora, like so many others, but the features and breadth of library in Last.fm just make for a much more enjoyable experience. First, I feel their recommendation engine is much better, more often giving me songs that relate to t...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Internet tools

Cat + Mitten + Slippery Table = Hilarious

August 4, 2009

This is a little bit of a non sequitur for me, but I love things that are generally hilarious and this is it to the fullest extent. As I was calmly hanging out on my couch last night watching "Rescue Me" when I happened to catch a glimpse of what I thought was a cat falling off a table. Now being that I am a DVR aficionado I was fast forwarding. I immediately hit rewind to confirm my earlier suspicion. Sure enough it was correct. It was a commercial for the cult hit "It's Always Sunny in Phil...
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Bing seeks first loser position

July 29, 2009

It is an exciting day for us Search Marketers. Bing officially announced that they will be powering Yahoo paid ads. This is great news for me as a PPC advertiser because now I no longer have to worry about two minor players fighting against Google, but only one that looks to be on the serious rise. The social community is tweeting in full force about this and seems to be the topic of the day. I can't wait to find out more information about what this means to me as a day to day advertiser in t...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Search Marketing

Extend your Reach with Conduit

July 28, 2009

One of the many challenges that companies face is staying engaged with their customers on the vast nebula that is the Internet. With the rapid development of new browsers, plug-ins and toolbars were able to be created to help users as they browse. Even for someone like myself who is on the 'net all day long, I always thought building one of these would be impossible. That is until I found out about Conduit today.

Conduit has taken all the difficulty out of building a customized toolbar th...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Browser

Social Network Desktop Apps

March 25, 2009

Today I saw the release of a new social network feed desktop app, Skimmer. This got me thinking that I should offer my thoughts on the multitude of apps. I am a big fan of the recent influx of desktop apps trying to capitalize on the multitude of social networks that slowly taking over our lives. These apps work by accessing the API's of the networks and bringing you the feed to a desktop client. I have been using Twhirl to manage my twitter account for months now, and couldn't be happier. It...
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Posted by Garrett Scott. Posted In : Social Media

Biggest Barriers to Corporate Social Media

March 7, 2009

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About Me

Garrett Scott

San Francisco, Ca

My name is Garrett Scott and I have a tremendous passion for all things internet related. I am an online marketing guy who loves the worlds of Social Media and Social Media Marketing with a whole lot of SEM rolled in.