Two articles in yesterday’s Financial Times struck my fancy:
Retailer buys ‘social’ search engine
Google to match online adverts with web users’ viewing habits
What Google and Sears–yes, Sears, the seller of all things American–are heading towards behavioral search engines that look at a person’s online activity and social networking profiles to determine their interests
Spotted this on Wire. Google Turns Voicemail Into E-mail. What I’m waiting for, tho, and was just thinking about this morning is a voiced version of my text messages? Do you know how hard it is to read text messages when you are driving?? 🙂
I was on my way to work and
A web site is not to be read. It is to be scanned.
Studies show that visitors spend less than 4 seconds on a web page.
With that in mind, search engine optimization is vital. Putting your most important words at the front and at the top of pages, paragraphs, sentences, and lines should be
On Friday the 13th at at 23:31:30 GMT, Unix computers using ten-digit clocks displayed 1234567890.
Computer geeks around the world saluted that night. Twitterers tweeted the party rally: “1234567890”.
But apparently the party of geeks ushering in this new era must now turn their programming prowess into another type of number crunching: switching for 32-bit
I posed this question on Twitter but got no responses. I suppose that answers that.
But, I think I just got lost in the Twittersphere so I raise the question again.
Do “Real” Journalists Twitter?
You see, I have been having this long-standing debate (well, ok, a 4-month debate) with a former reporter who claims
I’m not so sure about this Kindle Kraze.
See, despite my long-held love affair with all things online, I just can’t bring myself to jump on the Kindle bandwagon.
Why? In short, I’m a bibliophile. I own well over 200 books; half of which are either first editions or signed–some, even both. I have
We are watching the beginnings of the media giants taking over social networking.
I got an inkling of this when I heard that LexisNexis, an online research service, bought Martindale Hubbell, an online legal directory, who in turn partnered with LinkedIn, an online networking site.
Lexis has partnered with Chambers Global, a UK business that
Online media is replacing print media. It is a fact that PR agencies need to embrace.I hear talk about how PR agencies look to more reputable “papers” before they look to online pubs for the top news stories.But, think about it: where do readers go first when they hear about news while at work?Do they
Monday, I was looking over a list of online legal directories: Martindale, Findlaw, Legal500, BestLawyers, Chambers. I could go on and on . . .
Well, you know, my cohorts in crime here, Toby and Greg, have been talking a lot about the new way in which Martindale has hooked up with LinkedIn. Martindale is