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 [...]
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
2010 was a fascinating and fast-paced year for tech. Some trends that have been around for a while reached the tipping point this year, and some new trends are emerging that will dominate 2011. eBooks and eBook readers The price for an eBook reader dropped significantly this year. The number of device choices expanded. And [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The URL shortening service bit.ly announced Bit.ly Bundles on their blog yesterday. Now, instead of sending one link with a shortened URL, you can send a whole bundle of links. When you click the bundled link, it opens up in a special Bit.ly Bundles page where you get a rich media preview of every link [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
On Monday Facebook announced a new system of messaging that will be integrated within Facebook. Facebook calls it seamless messaging because it will dump your email, IMs, text messages, and Facebook messages into one Message inbox. The new Messages folder will be organized by Friends. I wrote about Facebook Messages at BlogHer, explaining how it [...]
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