If Comcast succeeds in buying up 51 percent of NBC Universal, the cable company will have actual content producers in its pocket, not just the pipes that deliver the content. That could give it greater power in shaping the future of entertainment delivery, where cable’s power is weakening. Some think it’s a brilliant move, but [...]
Web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don’t have any effect in our search ranking at present. via Google Webmaster Central Blog
A month after Facebook started letting “Page” owners sync their status updates with their Twitter accounts, MySpace has one-upped its rival. All MySpace users will now be able to link their MySpace profiles with their Twitter accounts, so that their Twitter updates also appear as their MySpace status and vice versa. Read full story via [...]
CAPTCHAs are those funny-looking blocks of text that often act as Web site gatekeepers to discern whether the user is a real person or an automated system. Google has just acquired reCAPTCHA, the company that provides the technology to thousands of Web sites. In grabbing hold of CAPTCHA tech, Google has bought a useful tool [...]
Google on Sept. 14th plans to unveil an experimental news reading service called Google Fast Flip, which the company hopes will serve as a financial lifeline for the revenue-starved publishing industry. Google Fast Flip, a Google Labs project, builds on a core Google value: speed to accelerate the news browsing process by caching Web pages [...]
Just when enterprises began warming up to the idea of the cloud as a safe repository for data and IT operations, Google’s massive Gmail system suffered a meltdown, cutting off millions from their normal channels of communication for more than an hour and a half. Google is taking swift steps to prevent another Gmail fiasco, [...]
The recession has greatly increased the popularity of coupons, the use of which had been in decline for over a decade. Now, however, younger shoppers are turning to technologies like cellphones and the Internet to find and use coupons, and retailers are experimenting with a vast variety of electronic distribution, promotion and redemption systems. Read [...]
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has agreed to put Google’s Chrome browser on new Vaio PCs in the first of what is likely to be several distribution deals that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is counting on to boost the market share of its internet browser. The FT, which first reported on the deal, says that Google is also [...]
Newspaper ad sales shrank by 29 percent in the second quarter, a hit executives blame on both the recession and Web advertising’s encroachment on print ad spending. They hope ad sales might buck back up during the holidays, but even if the recession abates soon, newspapers will still likely feel the pinch from Web ad [...]
I saw this article and have to applaud one of the few good business uses of Facebook. We have had clients utilize this type of marketing and it is a great way to connect with your clients. The key to using this type of marketing is the social nature of your business. Salons already have [...]