I searched for semantic Web on Bing, Google and Yahoo!, and if felt to me as if the SERPs dropped me into the Bouvier-Beale’s Grey Gardens library. I’m accustomed to…
Read MoreHow newspapers can use social media
Last week, I wrote about hyperlocal news, the new strategy that many hope will save traditional newspapers. I talked about the need not to focus only on new content, but…
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Some “what ifs” around the new Microhoo
Sure, there are a million opinions about the announcement this week of the Microsoft and Yahoo! becoming joined at the hip (in a very businesslike way). Fortunately, it is a…
Read MoreHow mad can you be when it’s free?
One of the odd things about getting so many services for free on the Internet is that we might feel obligated to be grateful even when something doesn’t work as…
Read MoreGoogle’s YouTube Money Pit
Everywhere you look, you read more reports of just how much money Google is hemorrhaging from YouTube. The servers, the storage, the bandwidth, oh my! The speculations on Google’s sinkhole…
Read MoreIs your head in the cloud?
You hear lots of talk about cloud computing, but is it really practical? It might sound cool and many cloud computing services are even free, but can you talk your…
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Using Google strategies for Facebook ads
Everyone has been watching Facebook to see if it can monetize its enormous traffic to become a going business. And the focal point of that monetization effort is advertising, just…
Read MoreGoogle suffering from Big Company Disease
No, Google isn’t suffering from corporate hardening of the arteries the way many old mammoth firms do, but I noticed something the other day that made me do a double…
Read MoreIt’s time for “trust marketing” on the web
Are you concerned about how much Google and other marketers know about you? Do you habitually erase your cookies to cover your tracks? Do you wish there was an easy…
Read MoreNo really? More free tools from Google?
Don’t look now, but Google has just released some more free tools. Every time you look up, something else is dribbling out of Google and it’s not that easy to…
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