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		<title>Making Me Hungry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt By embracing social media, this site unites the customers of this popular yogurt shop with the ability to create profiles, submit photos and share stories. http://www.pinkberry.com/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=1215&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Helps Explain Adwords Budgeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New AdWords bidding tutorial Last month Google launched a new feature to their AdWords called Bid Simulator&#8230; The below video explains why and how to use it. In general, when you increase your maximum CPC bid for keywords on search you are able to generate more clicks to your site. This may be because your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=1208&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Land Rover Defender is Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But only in the UK. Land Rover is the world&#8217;s leading 4&#215;4 specialist — and Defender is our most capable off-roader. Admired for its legendary simplicity, strength and ability, it&#8217;s an unbeatable combination of  tradition, experience, and modern technology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=1201&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surfline iPhone App</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 150 live-streaming cameras positioned at key surf spots around the globe and a sophisticated software system designed to predict wave conditions even a week in advance, Surfline.com is a surfer’s paradise. That’s why 1.5 million unique web users—and 500,000 more on mobile—use the site every month. More...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=215&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Your Site&#039;s Usablility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible.

The more usable a site is, the more satisfying it will be to interact with it — and happy visitors translate into happy customers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=212&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games1 and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=198&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#039;s New Search Engine Bing</title>
		<link>http://costadesigns.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/microsofts-new-search-engine-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft’s new search engine Bing excels at finding a good restaurant.

Unlike Google, which generally returns links to mere web sites, Bing crawls listings at review services like Yelp.com and CitySearch. It then summarizes the results and displays a scorecard for each, rating things like service, drinks, food, wait time, lunch offerings, and so on, all laid out in a neat comparative table.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=187&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#039;s 411 for Your Phone</title>
		<link>http://costadesigns.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/googles-411-for-your-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you can find businesses for free from any phone – no internet access required, and with no 411 charges. Just call GOOG-411 and say where you are and what you&#8217;re looking for. No need to memorize or write down phone numbers. Call and connect directly to businesses. Get the businesses&#8217; info sent to your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=184&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakes Many Small Business Make When Creating Their Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They hire the cheapest Designers. The old saying, “You get what you pay for” comes to mind.  Cheap websites are often cheap because the designers take shortcuts to develope them in order to save time.  The less time spent on a site, the less it costs…usually.  Many of these time saving techniques can have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=1267&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps &gt; MapQuest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 16th, 2009 by Loren Baker, Editor Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in the world of local or mapping, until now. Last week, for the first time according to Hitwise, Google Maps edged past MapQuest to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=costadesigns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4622811&amp;post=1266&amp;subd=costadesigns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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