Two months ago we acquired Condo.Vegas, along with its plural, Condos.Vegas, we did this as a continued addition to our growing set of DotVegas online properties. This time though it was done with purpose, as we are looking to acquire non-virtual properties, a condo in Downtown Las Vegas at The Ogden, and what better way... Read More

For quite sometime I have had it in my mind to do a "reboot" of my blog at BruceMarler.com. I did my first initial post in April of 2009 and for several years focused primarily on domain names and directly related topics. Although that topic will still exist on the new blog, I did a... Read More

Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news! Then we'll go with that data file! Daylight and everything. If rubbin' frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey I don't wanna be right. Just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged. I am... Read More

Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news! Then we'll go with that data file! Daylight and everything. If rubbin' frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey I don't wanna be right. Just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged. I am... Read More

Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news! Then we'll go with that data file! Daylight and everything. If rubbin' frozen dirt in your crotch is wrong, hey I don't wanna be right. Just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged. I am... Read More

As an interesting side note, as a head without a body, I envy the dead. Son, as your lawyer, I declare y'all are in a 12-piece bucket o' trouble. But I done struck you a deal: Five hours of community service cleanin' up that ol' mess you caused. Check it out, y'all. Everyone who was... Read More

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I am having good time with my friends at Starbucks, classic!

Waitress : Hello, what would you like to drink? Me : milky coffee Waitress : How would you like it? Me : with milk

Smashing Magazine You should definetly visit this site, lots of useful stuff for web designers!

I am in Las Vegas this week for a multitude of business reasons, that makes twice this month and I have managed to not become a plot line for The Hangover 4 but more importantly I am happy to say that, although it was a lot of work, the goals for the week will be […]

I have had several requests as of late to post the slides and a recording of the presentation that Tiffany and I gave on the opening day at NamesCon on how to rapidly get moving with WordPress. Although we do not have an audio recording of the session I can post the slides here as […]

A couple weeks back I had tweeted that I felt inspired to start blogging again. Amazing all the various things that have occurred since then to inspire me even more to start streaming words on to the interwebs again. 4 years back (wow it has been that long) I would write 2 to 3 blog […]

This past week I attended the WebRTC Expo in Santa Clara, CA and enjoyed the opportunity to both learn from the various sessions as well as spoke in one of the sessions focused on enterprise readiness with WebRTC. Below is the presentation for those interested. WebRTC now has over 1.2 billion endpoints enabled and is

  BIG RIVER BROADBAND TO ENHANCE YOUTH TECHNOLOGY SKILL THROUGH DONATION OF COMPUTERS TO SUPPORT PARKLAND PROGRAMMERS FARMINGTON, MISSOURI (November 14, 2013) ? Big River Broadband donated 15 laptop computers Tuesday, Nov. 12, to the Farmington Regional Community Foundation to enhance technology skills among students ages 8-12 participating in...

WebRTC is here to stay. Yes I have been an early adopter of the buzz worthy tech, you can see more about my early thoughts on WebRTC here.?But with the buzz seemingly accelerating daily (specifically while shows like Mobile World Congress are going on) it makes it even better when I can see technology in

Over the past few years I have spent a considerable amount of time speaking to customers, colleagues, and anyone who would listen about both "tangible" and "intangible" results from online marketing including social media and search marketing. Unfortunately to most people that own businesses or those that are in upper?management?the web is one big ...

Next week I am headed to the WebRTC Conference and Expo in San Francisco, to say the least I am looking forward to attending this event. As it intersects my two professional focus areas, VoIP and unified communications plus web development and online marketing. Obviously based on my WebRTC tutorial?post I have an affinity for

As I sit here and flip through the 138 slides in the "State of the Internet" presentation on Business Insider I thought about posting all the cool stats and graphs that you will find through the slides. It is a great read if you take the time to flip through it, whether you be a

Today was a big day for the web, it will go un-noticed by many but is not an?exaggeration?to say its the start of a paradigm shift in the way we communicate in real time on the web. Yes, I am once again talking about WebRTC, I posted about this previously as well in my WebRTC

This past weekend we took the kids for a little mini-vacation to Branson, MO. Kids love indoor waterparks plain and simple so off we went for a quick trip for them to play and me to watch Branson Half-Ironman. Well, while driving through town we happened to drive by a store with the above sign.

It's tough love time. During the length of time we have been helping local businesses create a presence for their business online through either online advertising, websites, social media, or whatever service they required, our team has been educating the small business owner as they hear the common "But my brothers friend can build a...

Amazing how sometimes things just fall into place. Last night I was sitting with Tiffany working on the soon to be re-launched LocalTek website when a certain domain name popped in my head that I have been wanting for a couple years, it was not?necessarily?something I wanted for resell but more so for personal project

Over the past few years LocalTek has continued to gain more and more customers with a mix of different services from local ads to a new website to web hosting. But one service that has grown more and more is SEO maintenance on a monthly and quarterly basis. If you are in this industry that

Since my ankle is more than a little screwed up right now after to much running here lately I am laid up on the couch catching up on work and listening to TED videos in the background. If you have never taken the time to browse through and listen to some very intelligent people talk

I do not care where you stand politically, democrat or republican or whatever else you would like to call yourself. If you are an American citizen or someone that has came to America for WHAT WE STAND FOR, which is freedom and the ability for any individual to speak their mind or give their opinion

As Technical Director at Thrupoint?I spend my days presenting unified communication solutions to service providers across the country. For the past many years (1996 or so) I have focused my efforts towards VoIP implementations that involved protocols such as H.323 (ouch), H.248, SIP, IPDC, MGCP, and a bunch of other acronyms that make you forget...

Over the past couple years I have let my blog down, I have ignored it plain and simple. Infrequent posting to say the least and even worse, as the web evolved the look and functionality did not change. I had good intentions, I would take a look at the traffic I was still getting to

As I sit here in the Newark airport tonight exhausted from a busy week and knowing I have a long travel night ahead due to delays I wanted to at least put a few words out about the GREAT transaction that Michael Berkens, Ammar Kubba, and Rick Schwartz had with Meet.Me. Since the launch of .ME

I want to thank Sean Stafford from DNS.com for allowing me to post his comment on a Facebook post I had made, consider this a guest post on my blog. I am sure there are many readers that will disagree with Seans point of view (and mine by extension) but what makes this country great

Yesterday Owen Frager sent out a great read in his newsletter, after reading I asked for permission to repost at Owen graciously agreed. I am posting unedited, for more information on Owen you can check out Frager.us or FragerFactor.blogspot.com. Owens article does a great job of explaining what many people have forgot, salesmanship matters to a...

In a world that is lead by real time information and search and reacting to friends posting links on social sites sometimes taking a longer view of what people could be interested in can pay off when developing a new website. This past year when first working with the Castello Brothers on Grape.com there was planning

If you are on Facebook or pay attention to social media news whatsoever you have taken a look at Facebook Timeline. One of the most visual differences between the previous Facebook profile layout compared to the new layout is the cover photo for your Timeline. As soon as I setup Timeline on my account I knew

I have not blogged about domain names much lately but to my domainer friends, do not worry, my heads still int he game. Tonight I witnessed a domain fail that was worth blogging about. Typically I fall on the side of the business owner when people complain about bad domain name selections, most small business owners

If you did not watch the Facebook F8 Keynote today you missed out on the major changes coming to Facebook, you should be able to see the recorded keynote at F8.Facebook.com if you want to get an idea of what is coming. One thing to note, and a year ago it would of been a big

I am in Austin, TX for the next few days attending ITEXPO West, its a great event with a ton of forward looking sessions. I will be sitting on the panel titled: How MNOs Can Leverage a Cloud Platform to Deliver Unified Communications My panel session is tomorrow at 11AM, if you are in town for

As many people that read my blog know I am an avid cyclist. I have been on the bike for years and obey the laws and in general give much more leeway to vehicles than required by law out of?courtesy since many drivers do not understand that cyclists have just as much right as they

Top app developers from GENFuzion Developer Community recognized for innovative applications powered by A2 Communications Application Server Frisco, Texas, August 30, 2011 ??GENBAND, a leading developer of IP infrastructure and application solutions, today announced the results of its first GENFuzion? Developer Challenge, recognizing the top app d...

I spend a lot of time reading up on, and sometimes using various API's available "in the cloud" to develop applications or integrate data into websites. In many cases it is much easier to find access to complex data or functions using an open API from another company than it is to create it from

I was just doing my daily perusal of various tech news and ran into a couple articles on Mashable and ReadWriteWeb that really show the changing usage of internet users, both non-techies and the early adopters. With mobile broadband becoming more?ubiquitous?everyday and it seems like every device in the world has wi-fi built in this trend

I wanted to type a quick public thank you to David and Michael Castello who showed me a great weekend in LA this past weekend. Between great sushi at SushiRoku, cigars at the Buena Vista Cigar Club in Beverly Hills, or great wine and food at Si Laa Thai, they made sure that my time

With the Amazon Kindle selling like hotcakes this Christmas season it only makes sense that electronic books for the Kindle are flying off the proverbial shelf. Free Kindle books have become a trending topic as people unwrapped their Kindle over the past couple days, people are looking for things to read, and one thing people are

Merry Christmas to my readers and friends, sitting here on Christmas Eve while my kiddos play with all of their new toys (and my daughter takes over my new iPad) I thought I would post a few thoughts from events this past week. First off congrats to my good friend and fellow blogger Patrick Ruddell for

A quick post,?Techcrunch is reporting that About.me has been acquired by AOL in what is a big coup for .ME supporters and obviously a big win for the founders of the company. It is estimated the company received 425K in investment (partially from AOL Ventures) in their initial funding round.?Acquisition?price of the company has not

As a company that works with local businesses on bringing them online and helping them with online advertising and local SEO we spend quite a bit of our effort on educating the customers. This is quite rewarding and our team enjoys showing customers how taking advantage of how the customer uses the web everyday actually helps

As mentioned in a previous post about high dollar affiliate programs and possible lost revenue, I have been working on researching affiliate programs that generate higher dollar revenue than typical PPC or product affiliates on Amazon, etc. As part of this I have also been making it a point to develop a smaller number of sites