http://gwilliam.com/nathan Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:32:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Years ago I heard a story about a person who was driving down the freeway and approaching an interchange with two possible directions the driver could choose.  One person in the car was telling the driver to go right and another person was telling the driver to go left.  The ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/the-parable-of-the-cement-pylon/ Despite a declining economy, industry experts are projecting an increase in online advertising spending.  eMarketer’s projection, benchmarked against the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) data, puts online ad spending at $25.7 billion in 2009. That is 8.9% over the $23.6 billion that will be spent in 2008, and pretty good considering ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/projected-increase-in-online-advertising/ The following blog entry is a review of a movie I recently watched, titled Forever Strong.  Warning: The movies I like the best generally get poor reviews with movie critics.  “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of my all-time favorite movies.  I love the epic battle between good and evil and ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/forever-strong/ One of my favorite scriptures describes a holy man named Moroni who lived during the year 72 B.C.: If all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/finding-peace-while-at-war/ As many of you know, I am passionate about online missionary work.  This is a topic that Elder M. Russell Ballard has been discussing lately as well.  Earlier this year I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life when David Neeleman and I were able to site ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/elder-ballard-article-about-sharing-the-gospel-online/ Lee Falin has released a free scriptures application for the iPhone named "The Scriptures".  This version contains all of the standard works for the LDS Church and the ability to search for a word or phrase across all of the scriptures. It does NOT yet contain foot notes, Topical Guide, ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/free-scriptures-app-for-iphone/ This year I started an Internet consulting practice, which has gravitated towards Internet strategy, monetization and marketing.  Recently, much of my consulting work has focused on helping businesses to better monetize their websites, social media applications, and mobile device applications. Monetization through virtual currencies and virtual goods is a topic that ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/making-money-with-virtual-goods/ Today ReadScriptures.com released its long awaited application which ads scriptures to the iPhone. The Scriptures app has all the LDS standard works, some General Conference proceedings, the Book of Mormon Study Guide, and the Teachings of Joseph Smith manual. They say that more content will be coming soon.  The application ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/scriptures-for-the-iphone/ A little over a year ago Facebook empowered web developers to create applications that could run on the Facebook platform.  This simple decision has propelled Facebook to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet.  Now, Facebook is expanding that vision and hopes to allow web developers to ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/facebook-and-the-next-generation-of-the-internet/ For years the Adoption.com website tried to provide its own site search, yet we always struggled with the quality of search results and keeping the search index current.  Then, Google launched its SiteSearch technology allowing website owners to leverage the powerful, industry-leading Google search quality and add premium features to ... http://gwilliam.com/nathan/google-sitesearch-finally-adds-the-features-website-owners-need/