Apple announced OS upgrades and new products at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2011 event yesterday. There was news about updates to the computer operating system – Mac OS X Lion – about the iPad and iPhone operating system – iOS 5 – and about a new service/product called iCloud. No new gadgets this time [...]
BlogHer is changing the way they curate, promote, and celebrate women bloggers. Part of that change is to hire Section Editors who will be in charge of finding and promoting the best of the female blogosphere (and some of the male blogosphere, too). I’m the new Section Editor for Tech at BlogHer. This is an [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
My granddaughter’s hard drive had to be replaced. When she opened up iTunes on the new hard drive, she was dismayed to discover that her music wasn’t already there. I remember saying to her, “Your music isn’t in the cloud. It’s only on your hard drive.” Things are changing. The grandkid’s music can be in [...]
[Ed.: This article was cross-posted at BlogHer.] At SXSW Interactive this week, Google announced a refresh of the interface for its popular Blogger blogging platform. The software hasn’t been updated in years, although it remains one of the most popular blogging tools on the Web. Blogger Product Manager Chang Kim calls the refresh “our next-generation [...]
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Guitar Hero has been strumming klunkers for quite a few financial quarters, and the publisher, Activision, has booed it off the stage. As mentioned in Rolling Stone, the game may live on in mobile or social formats, but not in its current form. According to News Quest Online and The Huffington Post that also means [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
There have been complaints. Loud complaints. I’m talking about complaints about Google’s search results being full of spammy links that lead to nothing of value. The complaint department window at Google was open for business, because they were listening and they’ve made some changes. Complaints and Alternatives Before we get into the changes, check out [...]
DIY Mobile Programming: Get Started with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Good resource. Five Questions with Zoe Gillenwater. An interview by Chris Coyier. It is impossible to say enough good things about Zoe Gillenwater. Awesome is a good place to start. Google and Mozilla Take Steps Toward Do Not Track is a post of my own [...]
Thursday, January 13, 2011
She’s been in the SEO and PPC business for 16 years. Sixteen years! You don’t find that kind of longevity and expertise in many web-based businesses. She owns a company that enables her to do the thing that is closest to her heart: find young women with marketing backgrounds and train them to be both [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I’m going to tell you a little story and then I’m going to give you a quiz. A few days ago, I posted a guest article by Lior called Increase your SEO Knowledge in 2011: Must Read Blogs. Lior sent me the post pasted into an email. I use Microsoft Entourage (a Mac mail program [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Instagram is a photography app for iPhone. Mashable recently wrote Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media?, which included an interview with Andy Carvin, a senior strategist at National Public Radio (NPR). Carvin talked about how NPR is using Instagram to connect with photographers. There’s an NPR Tumblr blog where photos from people [...]
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