No, likely not all of them, but a recent study has shown that shoppers are now regularly checking prices online before purchasing in-store. Aware that shoppers had been checking pricing on larger items online, such as appliances, furniture, or home improvement items for quite some time, it seems this has finally carried over to everyday […]
Mobile & Technology
TED – Ideas Worth Spreading
One of the great things the internet has to offer is the ability to facilitate sharing of knowledge and ideas. The different Wiki’s (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikileaks) are proof positive that people want to share what they know for the benefit of all. Another great thing the internet has spawned is TED – Ideas Worth Spreading. […]
LinkedIn IPO: LinkedIn Hits the Stock Market
As I mentioned in a previous post on the social networking site LinkedIn, this business based site allows users to connect to past, present, or future business contacts in effort to exchange ideas, knowledge, or perhaps even new opportunities. It also helps users to build a working portfolio that is supported by the very companies, […]
Google: Social, Cloud and more
It seems these days the biggest players in the computer world are raging wars against each other. And this war has the potential of changing the computing world as we know it. Google wants a share in social media platform and working very hard to create a model that will work. They’ve tried it unsuccessfully […]
Skype: The Platform that Microsoft Just Bought
An announcement on May 10th that Microsoft had bought Skype was obviously colossal business news, however, most users seem more concerned with how the eight and a half billion dollar deal will impact their user experiences. Skype in 2010 In the past year, Skype has seemingly remained focus on providing a positive user-experience for their […]
Mobile Advertising is Expected to Reach 5B in 2015
Whether you are aware of it or not, the iPad and its clones have created a revolution. They are changing the using habits of computer users. Tablets are expected to outsell desktop computers as soon as the end of this year. Coupled with the rapid rise of smartphone sales, it can potentially result in millions […]
Did Google Panda Change the Playing Field?
From time to time, when Google identifies a ‘gaming’ of their search engine results, its engineers open up the algorithms and tweak them, sending shudders in the world of e commerce and Internet advertising. Speculations run rampart until Google launches it to the world. One such tweak happened lately; in February 2011, Google launched such […]
GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and ShowMyPc
Remote viewing or remote connections have been an imperative part of the technical support world for many years. However, in more recent years, developers finally found other great formats for remote connection that also has plenty of benefits. Web Meetings and Conferences Webinars Web Training Along with other useful aspects, these are some of the […]
Social Media & Brand Monitoring: Collective Intellect
Collective Intellect, a company out of Bolder Colorado, has been around since 2005. They provide software and services to help businesses monitor and analyze real time marketing intelligence agregated from a broad spectrum of web and social media platforms. Similar to other companies (Radian6 and SM2 to name only 2) who provide software to monitor […]
Business Media Solutions: SlideShare
Slideshare may be another aspect of online commerce and marketing that may sound like one of the little guys, for now. However, this site offers large varieties of business media solutions in the forms of documents, slide show presentations and even downloadable pdf files. Professionals from many niches upload their business content, while other viewers […]