Came across a great article on Bloomberg BusinessWeek last week; “Google’s YouTube Boosts Display Advertisers 10-Fold”. Very interesting that the King of Search has discovered display advertising. Now let’s be honest, YouTube has massive reach but so does Google so is search declining? – According to Brian Womack who wrote the piece for Bloomberg, “As […]
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It’s in the Details, Stats on Social Media
If your still not sure about Social Media as a sales tool, think about this! “customer reviews had a strong influence on the purchases of 71% of respondents—while only 25% said the same about Facebook fan pages”—an interesting statistic considering the pace at which companies are setting up Facebook pages. Seems to me there is […]
SitePal: 3D People greet site vistors
Sitepal has introduced a rather impressive new set of speaking avatars. While the technology behind this type of avatar may be complex, the simplicity of its use may make it worth its weight. Thanks to 3-D Photoface, who has some of the most life-like avatar creations on the web, these avatars are of a quality […]
My Space Games System Draws New Attention
The social internet website MySpace announced with great pride to the people in attendance at the Games Developers Conference that they have a better gaming system for those social gamers. The functions and tools are superior and they have improved the user friendliness. The MySpace users that own the iphone now have the ability to […]
T-Mobile’s New HTC HD2
On specs alone, HTC HD2 looks to be the best mobile 6.5 device ever created for Windows. It contains a 4.3 inch screen with 800 x 480 resolution. It also includes a speedy 1-GHZ process by Snapdragon. After the recent launch for the HD2, it was easy to get my hands on this device to […]
Social Media: It is not a Fad
So While it is nice to be original, sometimes you just have to respect the way others say it. In this case the sheet coveres just about anything that should stump the “it’s just a fad” crowd of professionals that are still waiting for manufacturing to come back to the U.S.
Sency.com: Real Time Social Results?
While Google now allows twitter results into the first page search results other search engines like Sency.com use twitter as their primary source for search results. The benefits to real time content is that it provides the opportunity to find the most up to date information about what is happening on the web. Twitter updates […]
Twitter and Google Buzz?
Google Does Not Plan to Be Left Behind – Buzz Although they have had no choice lately, Google has announced its plans to take ‘what it does best’, which is organizing web content by relevancy, and apply this same method to social media formats. Social media is notoriously perhaps one of the most disorganized aspects […]
Facebook Gives the Boot to Privacy
One month after users went ballistic over the Facebook privacy update changes may have been a bit too early for Zuckerberg to declare that if given the chance to start over, he would have made these recent decisions right from the start. Claiming that it is the social norm, he shares that the new changes […]
Propeller Chip News
It looks like the new propeller chip will be an incredible addition to our current application technology. This chip contains eight processors or cogs, that can operate simultaneously, cooperatively, or even independently. This allows them to share common resources from a central hub. This new chip allows developers to retain full control over when and […]