When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? How about, “If I could only make money on the Internet, everyone else is doing it!” This statement is part truth, part lie. First off, not everyone is making money online. Secondly, a lot of people are. More specifically, this [...]
The King of search engines invades telecommunications. Unless you’ve lived under a rock for most of today, I’m sure you’re aware of Google’s grand announcement to take over and build a Fiber optic network in Kansas City, Kansas. After a year long process, Kansas City was selected out of 1,100 cities to be a testing [...]
Al Franken is known to attract an audience. Sometimes in a packed comedy house or senate chamber and others at a town hall meeting in his home state of Minnesota. Where’s the Senator at today? The Annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas: a geek fest for the creative and un-creative alike. Mr. Franken’s [...]
The New York Times was the first to break the story about the dirty secret of search, that included JCPenny.com acquiring backlinks en-mass to help boost their ranking in Google.com. It seems (according to the article), that the internet seems to be littered with abandoned pages that link back to JCPenny.com. The article cites examples [...]
After all of the updates and announcements we’ve made about Bing the past year or so, it’s time to talk about the moment everyone has been waiting for. We have, at least. In a recent report by online intelligence gathering firm, Experian – Hitwise, total monthly searches for Bing increased by 21% in January. The [...]
No, they didn’t JOIN forces for good. More like, join forces for GOOD. These two online giants teamed up to create a communication stream, amidst the uprising and protest against the Mubarak regime. Egyptian residents have been left with little resources for outside contact, as result of the nationwide Internet crackdown. Until now. Speak2Tweet, a [...]
If Wikipedia users are looking for a better “experience,” it looks like their moment has arrived. I talk like I’m not included. This is my moment! With the release of Qwiki.com, a new multimedia style encyclopedia, information geeks can now view millions of photos, videos, maps and interactive material about a specific subject. Yesterday marks [...]
It’s engraved on our minds, constantly in front of us and will never go away. So they say. Whoever “they” are, is right. Unless we de-engrave. Remove. Act like it never happened. Since 2004, we’ve been dealing with this problem. Google has been easing our search pains for over seven years. If you can’t Google [...]
Wal Mart is amping up it’s business in Asia. Nothing new, right? Well, kinda. Instead of looking for cheaper Tuppaware or Tums, the mega-giant super store is injecting over a half-a-billion dollars into 360buy.com, a Chinese based online retailer. Despite the slow economic recovery, Wal Mart continues to open stores, albeit at a moderately slowed [...]
No postage, no clicking. It’s good to be Netflix these days. In an attempt to “be all things to all people,” the video rental giant has inked deals with several remote manufacturers to include a dedicated Netflix button. Users will be one step away from streaming out of their exhaustive catalog. Despite Netlix’s success in [...]
In the midst of Yahoo slashing jobs and AOL branching out in uncharted territory, Facebook has plans to keep the ball rolling. At a Bay Area start up summit, Manager of Corporate Development Michael Brown, made mention of the company’s 2011 strategy. . .with a few few surprises. Well, that’s what some living in a [...]
This is not a post about predicting the epic failure of Google. We’ve already been down that road with Wikipedia. My job is to inform you of whats coming on the horizon. Something you’re probably already aware of. With all of the fanfare taking place, how could you not? Bing seems to be all the [...]
