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Internet Marketing Firm Exults Announces Expansion into Portland, Oregon

Exults, one of the nations leading Internet marketing companies, has recently announced plans to open offices in Portland, Oregon. The Portland office will give local companies the opportunity to broaden and expand their online reach.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 14, 2013

Exults is a boutique agency that specializes in SEO, PPC, web design, email marketing and social media management, and they are eager to take their expertise outside of their home state of Florida. At Exults we are excited for our continued national expansion to service our clients growing needs and the strength of our ability to provide client fulfillment for Internet marketing needs, says Hoffman.

The expansion to Oregon will not only benefit their existing clients, but give local businesses in the Portland area an opportunity to work with a firm that understands and knows how to market a local business onlinesomething that not everyone does. Hoffman views the new office as only the beginning. We believe our grass roots presence will enhance our client relationships across the region and will enhance the digital community in the Northwest.

Clearly, in an age where a good Internet marketing strategy can make or break a business, a results-driven firm like Exults is in the right place at the right time. The firm doesnt just limit their services to local businesses, although they are experts at that. They also work closely with national and global brands to help develop marketing plans that will take their online presence to a new level.

To learn more about Exults, look for them at Exults.com or call them at 866.999.4736.

Zach Hoffman Exults 954-763-1130 Email Information

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7News – Conroy denies media censorship – Video


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The communications minister Stephen Conroy denies trying to censor the Australian media after being likened to a dictator over his proposed reforms.

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Iranian internet initiative slammed by censorship watchdog: online freedom report slams Iran – Video


Iranian internet initiative slammed by censorship watchdog: online freedom report slams Iran
Iranian internet initiative slammed by censorship watchdog online freedom report slams Iran. Uploaded by jewishnewsone on Mar 12 2013. Syria and Iran are some of the world #39;s worst offenders for online spying according to media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres The group also identified China Bahrain and Vietnam as states which are clamping down on web freedom and RSF urged controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to rogue regimes. Jewish News One.

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China’s Censorship Costs Western Businesses – Video


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China #39;s intense online surveillance doesn #39;t just affect Chinese Internet users and their ability to access information freely. As more and more western entit...

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Unintentional Interfaces: Google Reader’s Censorship -Busting Power Will Be Hard to Replicate

Googles brand name made Reader work in Iranians favor.

Journalists and other professional nerds are angry thatGoogle is snuffing out its moribund RSS software, Reader. But as Quartzs Zach Seward points out, plain old normal folks in Iran used Reader quite a bit to get around internet censorship. And those users wont be helped by the Reader clones popping up in its wake, because Google Readers unintended power as an anti-censorship interface flows from its Google pedigree, not its Reader functionality.

Google Readers use of HTTPS makes it more difficult for censors to block than normal web traffic, which helps (sort of). But the bigger foot that Reader keeps shoved in the censors door is the google.com domain itself. To cut off Reader, as Seward writes, Iran would probably have to block all of Google and its many popular services in order to keep its citizens from using Reader. [See update below.] Even the censors dont want to do that, at least not now. So Reader persisted, an obsolete product providing unintentionally vital value to Iranians by riding like a remora on the rest of the google.com shark. Until July 1 2013, when Google does what the censors couldnt, and scrapes the remora off.

Google is a business, not a public utility, and its decision to kill Reader makes business sense. But was maintaining Reader really so much of a drain on Googles vast resources that it couldnt have let the little remora keep hanging on as long as possible, as a kind of pro-bono, dont be evil brand-burnishing project? Google didnt design Reader to be used this way, and couldnt have predicted that it would be, but there it is. Why extinguish the benefit?

Reader came out of Google Labs, which spun out interesting (or random) applications and inventions at a semi-alarming clip until Larry Page took over as CEO and shut it down. Labs didnt make much sense as a revenue-generating division. But what it was good at, with its throw spaghetti at the wall non-strategy, was creating opportunities for unintentional interfaces to emerge and catch on ones that, like Reader in Iran, could potentially fulfill Googles dont be evil moral imperative more clearly and cleanly than their on-purpose products do. (Of course, Google has been badly burned by unintentional UIs as well.)

But Labs is gone, and so is Reader. That google.com domain, though, is still as huge a boot in the door of Irans censors as it ever was[not necessarily for technical reasons, see update below]. Politicians often attach controversial riders to popular legislation because they know that their opposition wont throw the baby out with the bathwater. Google has been passively exercising similar power in Iran with Reader for a very good cause, and its a shame that it will come to an end. But maybe its a moment of opportunity for some Googlers to seize with their 20% time: what new thing on the edges of google.com might ride on it to do some unplanned good?

Update: I spoke to The Electronic Frontier Foundations Director for International Freedom of ExpressionJillian C. York, who pointed out that its not technically difficult for Iran to block Reader without taking down other Google services. (They can screw up, of course, she added.) Google Translate offers similar access around censored content by acting as a proxy. Google Reader offered much more convenience, she said, and an alternative US-based RSS reader set up in the same way could offer that same convenience. The problem is, how would Iranians find out about it? Theyre resourceful, but its a huge inconvenience, she said. In other words, the Google brand name is a significant part of that unintentional interface effect that helped Reader be a popular tool for circumventing censorship in that country. Replacing Reader in that regard would take more than just cloning the functionality. Would you have to be Google, and deliver it from a google.com URL, to pull that off? Not necessarily. But if interfaces are culture, then being Google certainly helps. Its just like here: [Google] ispopular, its trusted, York said. Which is why its unfortunate that Google would cut off so many users who use [Reader] this way.

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