{"id":919,"date":"2012-12-22T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samjwatkins.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:10:45","slug":"seasons-greetings-making-a-difference-to-whats-being-surfed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samjwatkins.com\/blog\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Seasons greetings making a difference to what&#8217;s being surfed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" style=\"border: 1px solid white;\" title=\"rank\" src=\"http:\/\/samjwatkins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rank.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"350\" usemap=\"#links\" \/><\/p>\n<map name=\"links\">\n<area title=\"Google - search engine and services shape=\" coords=\"0,0,94,35\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" alt=\"Google - search engine and services shape\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Facebook - social networking site\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,40,94,60\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook\" alt=\"Facebook - social networking site\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"YouTube - Web 2 content provider\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,65,94,102\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" alt=\"YouTube - Web 2 content provider\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Yahoo - search engine\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,105,94,140\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\" alt=\"Yahoo - search engine\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Baidu - search engine\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,145,94,175\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baidu.com\" alt=\"Baidu - search engine\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Wikipedia - online collaborative encyclopedia\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,180,94,215\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" alt=\"Wikipedia - online collaborative encyclopedia\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Windows Live - search engine\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,220,94,250\" href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\" alt=\"Windows Live - search engine\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Amazon - online merchant\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,255,94,280\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\" alt=\"Amazon - online merchant\" \/>\n<area title=\"qq - chinese search engine\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,285,94,310\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qq.com\" alt=\"qq - chinese search engine\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"twitter - micro blogging site\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"0,315,94,350\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" alt=\"twitter - micro blogging site\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <\/map>\n<p>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.\u00a0 Surfing habits are not significantly different since April this year, apart from the obvious swap between the positions of Twitter and Amazon. Good news for the on-line trader but is this a seasonal blip?\u00a0 Would you expect surfing habits to move from the twits to the shops?<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is interesting at the moment for a verity of reasons not least its changes to its virtual desktop offerings.\u00a0 Amazon, like Google, allows registered users in the USA to get a desktop, storage and services at a moments notice by a pay as you go model.\u00a0 In late November it upgraded this offering in terms of bangs per buck, with a desktop with much more punch (ready to run a Windows 8 desktop?).<\/p>\n<p>So is it just shopping increasing Amazon&#8217;s surfing draw or will this trend continue into the new year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.\u00a0 Surfing habits are not significantly different since April this year, apart from the obvious swap between the positions of Twitter and Amazon. Good news for the on-line trader but is this a seasonal blip?\u00a0 Would you expect surfing habits to move from the twits to the shops? Amazon is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","category-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seasons greetings making a difference to what&#039;s being surfed? - Finding the chase and cutting to it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/samjwatkins.com\/blog\/?p=919\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seasons greetings making a difference to what&#039;s being surfed? - Finding the chase and cutting to it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.\u00a0 Surfing habits are not significantly different since April this year, apart from the obvious swap between the positions of Twitter and Amazon. 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