Blog Category: News

Ence Homes Website Gets Updated

2 September, 2010 (09:07) | News

Ence Homes is a big home builder in St. George Utah and they had contacted Innovation Simple to take over their online presence by improving their website. We built their website so that it is easier to use and better looking. We have released the new version of the

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Gmail Priority Inbox Now Available

1 September, 2010 (09:29) | Google

Gmail has a new feature called priority inbox that will let you tell Gmail what email messages are important and which ones are not. A lot of people’s email inbox get overloaded with emails and until now you could star emails and filter them with labels. Gmail’s spam filtering system gets does do a good job at understanding what is junk email, however Gmail has never been able to identify

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Google Real Time Search Has A New Home

27 August, 2010 (08:51) | Google

Real time search has been a hot topic over the last few years since Twitter has taken the spotlight on gathering information on the web as it happens. With Google being the #1 search engine in the world they have been trying to improve their search platform to enable real time search results. Google has now given their real time search feature a new home on

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Yahoo’s Organic Search Now Powered By Bing

25 August, 2010 (10:35) | News

After months of testing and debugging Microsoft’s Bing search engine platform has now officially taken over Yahoo’s organic search on August 24th 2010. Yahoo’s web, images, and videos search in the United States and Canada English speaking is now powered by Bing technology with more markets and languages to come.

binghoo logo1 Yahoos Organic Search Now Powered By Bing

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Dragging Files From Gmail

24 August, 2010 (15:45) | Google

Dragging files around from one application to another makes it real easy to organize and be more productive. Google is continually improving their Gmail and Google Apps products to improve productivity.

Google Apps has now added the ability to not only attach files by dragging them into Gmail, they have no added the ability to drag files out of Gmail to your desktop or other folders. Right now this ability is only available in Google Chrome.

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GMail Updates Its Contacts Features

11 August, 2010 (09:00) | Google

Gmail has made some new changes recently and the big one is the change they have made to the contacts. A lot of people have been asking Google to update the way Gmail shows its contacts and features of how to show, sort and edit contacts. Now the contacts in Gmail is more

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Utah Ranked #2 For Business In Economic Development

10 August, 2010 (08:55) | News

2nd place ribbon

Utah has been named for a second year in a row as a top state for business according to a top economic development publication called the Pollina report named after Dr. Ronald R. Pollina. In its recently released report Pollina ranked Utah as the

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Kathleen’s Bridal Gets A New Website

9 August, 2010 (12:20) | News

Kathleen’s Bridal & Formal is a modest dress company based out of Kaysville, UT and now has a brand new website with a new look and e-commerce functionality. Kathleen Clifford is the owner of the company and has been designing dresses for decades, she came to Innovation Simple looking for a professional web design company to take over her website.

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YouTube Allows 15 Minute Uploads

2 August, 2010 (09:56) | Google

YouTube has made serious changes and strides since Google acquired them and has even become more popular. YouTube has announced that they are increasing the video time allowed from 10 minutes to

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Google In The Government?

27 July, 2010 (10:10) | Google

Google is continually in the news and expanding their services. Google has announced that they are opening up a new edition of their Google Apps. Google Apps for Government has new features that incorporate

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Richen’s Eye Center Has A New Website

12 July, 2010 (15:04) | News

Richen’s Eye Center has a new official website www.richenseyecenter.com . We redesigned their old website to have a new

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We Have Moved Into A New Office

12 July, 2010 (12:11) | News

Innovation Simple has moved into a new office located in the middle of downtown St. George Utah. Our new office is located at:

43 South 100 East Ste. 204 & 205
St. George Utah, 84770-3776

July 12, 2010 is the official 1st full business day working in the new executive offices. We are located upstairs in suites 201 and 202 so please come on in to see us.

Here are some pictures of the new office building:

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Have You Gone Google?

9 July, 2010 (10:33) | Google

There is a phrase that has been floating around the internet community and that is “Have you gone Google”? Going Google means switching over to Google Apps. Applications are becoming the norm lately as they are all programmed with the cloud in mind. This means that it is

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Guest Bloggers Needed

5 July, 2010 (09:56) | News

guest blogger

Innovation Simple is a growing custom web design and SEO (search engine optimization) company that is headquartered in the beautiful red rock hills of St. George Utah.

We are currently looking for guest bloggers who wish to blog on our website. We talk about anything related to web design, web development, seo and industry news related to these areas.

If interested please fill out contact form and we will get in touch with you.

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FREE Website Analysis Special

2 July, 2010 (12:14) | News

Innovation Simple is offering a FREE WEBSITE ANALYSIS for all business owners. Is your website under-performing and not being the complete asset you thought it would be in generating leads and sales? Get a Free Website Analysis performed today by experienced web design and SEO (search engine optimization) experts.

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Google Voice Opened To Everyone

28 June, 2010 (12:41) | Google

Google has officially announced that they are opening the Google Voice system to be open to everyone. Google Voice has thus far only been open to those who requested an invitation as Google has been making tweaks and adjustments to the service.

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iPhone 4 Released In Stores

24 June, 2010 (09:24) | News

Today is the official day Apple is releasing its newest iphone called iphone 4 on June 24, 2010. Thousands of people have been waiting in lines and reserving their spots trying to be one of the first to buy the new iphone 4.

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Snow Jensen & Reece Launch New Website

23 June, 2010 (16:55) | News

A respectable law firm in St. George Utah, Snow Jensen & Reece, came to us to fix their old website and to give it a completely new redesigned look and feel.

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Hydropology.com Officially Launches

21 June, 2010 (13:12) | News

Hydropology is the latest website Innovation Simple has launched. It is a a brand new website to help others learn more about Susan Turnquist, an environmental sociologist who has consulted with provided her services around the world. Susan came to Innovation Simple to have

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Drug Rehab Website Officially Launches

21 June, 2010 (12:51) | News

Talbot Recovery Solutions is a drug rehab and alcohol rehab detox program. They came to Innovation Simple to have us build a new website that had the ability to include a directory on it. We have built the website www.talbotrehab.com on a

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Microsoft Office 2010 Looks The Same As 07′

16 June, 2010 (09:35) | Microsoft

Microsoft Office 2010 has officially been released in retail stores yesterday June 15th and there has been a lot of talk about what the new version of Microsoft Office 2010 is like compared to the Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite. The new 2010 version has now gone to the

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Stephen Colbert Says Bing For Charity

11 June, 2010 (08:44) | News

Stephen Colbert had a piece on his show where he was talking about a way in which he wished he could help a charity that is helping the animals who have been affected by the oil spill. He said he wished there was a way he could use someone else’s money and he had a great idea.

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Google Caffeine Is Officially Live

10 June, 2010 (10:02) | Google

Google has been working on overhauling their algorithm in how they crawl, index and rank web content. The new algorithm is called Google Caffeine and has been in the works for quite a while. Google said they would be

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Misspellings Caught In Google Suggest

7 June, 2010 (14:20) | Google

Google has made several changes in order to help a user find what they may be looking for and one of those major changes was the launch of Google Suggest which would provide suggestions as you were typing making it very helpful to find things faster. This week Google has made an update to

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Customize Google’s Home Page

4 June, 2010 (08:47) | Google

Google has now made it available for anyone to customize the Google home page. Google came out with iGoogle in 2005 and was the product which would allow users to customize their own Google home page with certain widgets and modules. Google has recently announced that they

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Google Maps Community Editing Needs Approval

26 May, 2010 (11:26) | Google

Google has announced that they are no longer going to allow community editing on Google Maps go live until after review. This means that spammers and others cannot

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CEO’s Talk About Google TV

24 May, 2010 (15:42) | Google

Google TV is the new thing that is being talked about in the entertainment industry and at Google I/O all of the CEO’s of the major companies involved sat down to talk about the new wave of television. Included on the panel was the CEO of Google,

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Google’s Reasonable Surfer Patent

18 May, 2010 (09:03) | Google

Patent Filed

On June 17, 2004 Google filed a patent entitled “Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data” to improve the way that they value links that point from one document to another.

Here is a quick synopsis:

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Google MayDay Sending Less LongTail Traffic

14 May, 2010 (14:46) | Google

The Google May Day update has been all the rage over the last couple of weeks as many webmasters have been noticing traffic drops to their sites for long tail referrals from Google. A long tail phrase is anything that is 3 words or more. Some webmasters have reported numbers as high as

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Google Changes Search Results Layout

5 May, 2010 (15:06) | Google

Google has been playing with changing the way they change their search results interface for quite awhile. Today they have officially made the change to the public.

Here is a screenshot of the new look:

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HiCaliber Starts SEO Campaign

27 April, 2010 (10:20) | News

hicaliber inc. logo

HiCaliber Inc. is a well established company that is headquartered in St. George Utah and has been operating since

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HiCaliber Inc New Site Goes Live

21 April, 2010 (09:27) | News

HiCaliber Inc. is one of those professional offline companies that have been doing business for several years and in HiCaliber’s case since 1976. When we first met with

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Google Places Is Now Live

20 April, 2010 (09:05) | Google

google places logo

Google is becoming more LOCAL and they have made some serious strides in making their Local Business Center better. Last September Google launched their Place Pages allowing businesses to claim their place page and make changes. Today Google is now launching

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Children’s Dental Launches New Website

19 April, 2010 (09:37) | News

Children’s Dental is a pediatric dentist office in St. George Utah which offers state of the art technology and excellent customer service. The new website offers a

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Richen’s Eye Center Undergoes Redesign

16 April, 2010 (11:53) | News

Richen’s Eye Center www.richenseyecenter.com is going to be undergoing a complete renovation of the design and content on the site. Innovation Simple will be performing a new

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Spilkercustomhomes.com Starts SEO Campaign

13 April, 2010 (09:13) | News

Innovation Simple has started to do some search engine optimization on www.spilkercustomhomes.com in order to rank better for St George custom homes and other related phrases. We are pleased to work with the owner of Spilker & Company Inc,

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Innovation Simple Launches A New Search Engine

1 April, 2010 (09:21) | News

Innovation Simple is proud to be on the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Today we are pleased to announce that we are finally ready to announce the release of our new

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Google Changes Its Name To Topeka

1 April, 2010 (07:32) | Google

Google has already gone through one name change as they were originally called Backrub. Google has now officially released that they have changed their name to

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MMA Gear – Inflict Sports Launches Website

31 March, 2010 (10:56) | News

Inflict Sports has launched their new website www.inflictsports.com which sells mma gear. The website has shirts, hats, gloves, training pads, hand wraps,

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RosePetalWeddings.com Redesign Goes Live

23 March, 2010 (07:29) | News

When the owner of Rose Petal Weddings came to us he expressed that he wanted to redesign his site www.rosepetalweddings.com which specializes in rose petals. He had had some problems in the past in working with web designers and so he was

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Esthetics School – The Skin Institute New Website

19 March, 2010 (08:07) | News

the skin institute logo

The Skin Institute, headquartered in St. George Utah, is a professional esthetics school which holds classes for

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Google Acquires Picnik, Online Photo Editing

2 March, 2010 (09:30) | Google

Google has been making a lot of moves lately as they have been acquiring several companies in order to expand their horizons. Google has recently acquired Picnik, which is an online photo editing company.

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New Innovation Simple Salt Lake City Address

19 February, 2010 (08:24) | News

Innovation Simple is continually looking to expand its reach in the Utah marketplace. In the 4th quarter of 2009 we were afforded the opportunity to server the Salt Lake City area better, by having an Innovation Simple representative move to the Salt Lake area. As such, companies in the Salt Lake City area looking for web design services, have the option of a personal visit from Innovation Simple.

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Google Acquires Aardvark

17 February, 2010 (10:31) | Google

Google has acquired Aardvark recently and this move continues to show Google’s interest in the social search. Aardvark has been described as a social search company in which you can

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Google Launches Google Buzz – Social Networking

10 February, 2010 (08:40) | Google

Google officially launched Google Buzz Tuesday February 9th, which is a social media network within the Gmail interface. With Google Buzz you can follow people and they can follow you on what you

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Google Maps Has Personalized Search

9 February, 2010 (09:03) | Google

Google is continually pushing their personalized search service making it better for users to find things faster and more relevant to them based on past search history. This feature exists on the web search function and now it exists in the Google Maps function as well.

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Innovation Simple Has Hired a New Programmer

2 February, 2010 (09:07) | News

Things are moving in the internet world and Innovation Simple has experienced a shift in more businesses needing to improve their websites and online presence. Due to the growth that we have received we have a hired a new

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Online Video Skyrocketed In 2009

1 February, 2010 (09:40) | News

The internet is getting bigger and bigger as more and more people use it for not only work related tasks, but also for entertainment purposes as well. In 2009 online video viewing went up by

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Google Changing Search Results Layout?

25 January, 2010 (09:32) | Google

Google is continuing making changes in order to improve their service for users and here is something I saw that I thought I would share, Google might be playing around with changing their interface for search results.

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Ence Homes New Redesigned Website

22 January, 2010 (17:39) | News

ence homes logo

Innovation Simple has recently put up the new look and feel of www.encehomes.com for a Southern Utah construction company called Ence Homes. Ence Homes is a staple in the Southern Utah area and has been in business for several decades building beautiful homes.

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Merry Christmas from Innovation Simple

24 December, 2009 (09:14) | News

Innovation Simple wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We want to thank all of our clients and partners for the opportunity of working with you and wish you great success in 2010.

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Google Chrome Extensions Now Available

9 December, 2009 (10:49) | Google

Google Chrome has not given people the opportunity to have addons to the browser like Firefox does. Google has now opened up Google Chrome extensions for their super fast browser.

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Google Launches Site Performance In Webmaster Tools

3 December, 2009 (14:22) | Google

Speed is on the top of the mind at Google and as part of their “Let’s make the web faster” campaign Google is continually improving the way they like speed when it comes to load times. In Google Webmaster Tools their is a new tool called

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Feedburner Integrates With Google Analytics

18 November, 2009 (09:48) | Google

Feedburner has now made it possible to track what is happening with your rss feeds in Google Analytics. Using Google Analytics you can get enormous amounts of data and now with content syndication being more and more critical internet marketing having analytics data is huge.

Feedburner is now automatically

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Phoenix Wordpress Camp 2009

13 November, 2009 (10:29) | News

Phoenix Wordpress Camp 2009 is here and you can watch it live stream by Godaddy. Godaddy is one of the main sponsors sponsoring the event and has a speaker by the name of Jim Christian who is a part of Godaddy’s SEO team who will be talking about search engine optimization.

Here is the schedule for the event:

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Google SPDY

12 November, 2009 (16:09) | Google

Google has made it well known that they have wanted the web to be faster for years. Yesterday on November 11th 2009, Google officially announced that they have been working on a research project called SPDY (pronounced speedy) which is a new application geared towards moving content across the web twice as fast.

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Wordpress Warriors World Map

6 November, 2009 (09:39) | News

Wordpress is a very popular platform across the world and is used in many different capacities. Now there is a new website where Wordpress users can see where other developers, fans, and bloggers are around the world. The website is

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Salt Lake City Web Design Company

2 November, 2009 (11:38) | News

Innovation Simple is now venturing into the Salt Lake City web design market after the company has made a significant impact in the St. George web design market. There are several Salt Lake City web design firms who do all types of design, however Innovation Simple keeps things simple and very user friendly.

As a powerful

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Google Music Launches

2 November, 2009 (10:33) | Google

Google has now officially gone into the music business by launching Google Music. Google Music has been in the works for a little over a year as Google was approached by leading music companies like Lala, Rhapsody, and Imeem who wanted to use the power of Google’s search engine.

Until now Itunes has been

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Website Presence Tips – Research

22 July, 2009 (07:35) | News, Web Tips

Start Everything with Research

In this article we will talk about doing research about your website to find the things you don’t and do want to be known for when it comes to keywords in search engines. We will use the example of Zion Vacation, found at

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Gmail Automatic Message Translation

21 May, 2009 (14:10) | Google

Gmail is continuing to improve its services in order to become one of the foremost options when it comes to email. Many of the great things that come out of Google is because Google has to solve a problem that the company has because they are an international company.

The new automatic message translation is now another one of those things as it makes emailing those who are of another language even easier. Google is an international company with employees that come from various cultures, languages, and live in different countries.

In order for Google to operate the employees must continually speak to each other from across the world. The automatic message translation in

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Microsoft Releasing KUMO Next Week

21 May, 2009 (13:54) | Microsoft

Microsoft has been around for a while when it comes to building operating systems and there are a lot of Microsoft Window users throughout the world. When it comes to operating systems Microsoft is the leader, however when it comes to search they are far behind.

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Google Webmaster Tools Redesign

13 May, 2009 (07:59) | Google

The Google Webmaster Tools team has redesigned the interface of Webmaster Tools and has added some functions. This is only the start of what they are planning to do.

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Ashton Kutcher Reaches 1 Million Twitter Followers

17 April, 2009 (07:40) | News

Twitter has continually grown over the last few months as there have been more and more people jumping on the bandwagon and tweeting. Last night, April 16, 2009, the actor Ashton Kutcher became

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Google Lime Scholarship

16 April, 2009 (08:28) | Google

Google is continually looking to improve the way they can help not only the online world with the way they gather information for their search engine, but also continually helping the offline world. Google has partnered with

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Google Integrated Sports Search

13 April, 2009 (15:02) | Google

Google is continuing to better improve the way they do real time search and that is why the social media has been a factor with real time search. Google has integrated

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Gmail April Fools Joke

2 April, 2009 (08:54) | Google

Gmail is back at it again with their April Fools joke and this year was Gmail Autopilot. Last year Gmail announced

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Google Ventures

2 April, 2009 (08:08) | Google

Confiker Virus on the Loose – April Fool’s?

1 April, 2009 (07:56) | News

One of the biggest and malicious worm viruses called Confiker or Downadup is storming through the net right now and is estimated at infecting over

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Google in a Recession?

27 March, 2009 (08:20) | Google

There are a lot of companies that are struggling with the way the current economy is, but is Google one of those companies struggling?

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Utah Web Design Press Release

27 March, 2009 (07:58) | News

Innovation Simple has written a press release for its Utah Web Design department as they have moved over their website. You can view the Utah web design press release with

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Interactive Media Blidget

24 March, 2009 (09:05) | News

Innovation Simple has a new interactive media blidget with

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Google Chrome Next Beta Version

19 March, 2009 (09:53) | Google

Google Chrome launched in Beta in September of 2008 on Labor Day. In December Google took off the

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Google Chrome Experiments

19 March, 2009 (09:00) | Google

Google has brought out several products and applications that have both helped themselves and internet users. Everyone in the world who has used the internet has used Google in some form or fashion. Last September Google launched

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Google Launches Chatback – Live Chat

27 February, 2009 (16:38) | Google

Want to talk with the visitors to your site? LiveChat has been one of the tools that has been out for awhile and has been expensive to website owners. On Wednesday Feb. 25th Google Talk launched a new feature called

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Las Vegas Web Design Press Release

26 February, 2009 (15:18) | News

Innovation Simple has officially moved their Las Vegas web design website to

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Gmail Outage is Over

24 February, 2009 (10:34) | Google

This morning the Gmail development team received alerts that consumers and businesses could not access their Gmail accounts worldwide.

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Google Powermeter

12 February, 2009 (14:18) | Google

Google is on a mission to help people have control over their electricity bills with a new software tool called Google Powermeter. Google has been actively pursuing their mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” and part of that is

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Google Maps “Friend” Tracking

5 February, 2009 (11:59) | Google

Google Maps is adding a new feature where you can see exactly where your

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GMAIL has new buttons

4 February, 2009 (11:40) | Google

The Gmail development team has made new buttons that appear in the top of the bar. The new buttons are designed to increase

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Welcome to Innovation Simple!

20 January, 2009 (17:56) | News

This is the new site for Innovation Simple! Come to this news section for updates, tips, new products, and much more…

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