The Origami Experience In Action
JKOnTheRun’s latest video features the great new Origami Experience software, the new program launcher/manager for Ultra Mobile PCs that will ship with UMPCs running Windows Vista.
Google May Code In-Game Advertising
Google has digital initiatives rumored for a couple of areas. In-game advertising delivered through a potential acquisition of Adscape Media may place Google ads in online games, while the search advertising company’s initiative to bring e-books to the masses could find allies among the biggest global publishers.
The Dark Side of Interactive Marketing Isn’t So Dark
Privacy advocates are busy stirring the pot over the allegedly illicit invasiveness of behaviorally targeted ads, but a close examination of available data reveals that their hand-wringing is little more than hot air.
Google Sprinkles Seedfund With Cash
Google’s made one more step into India, but it’s done so in an uncharacteristically quiet manner. Rather than buy out another company, or at least throw up a new research center, the search engine giant merely contributed an “undisclosed amount” to a seed investment firm known as Seedfund.
Amazon’s aStores
I’ve been an Amazon affiliate for awhile but hadn’t actually been using it.
Building Somebody Else’s Vision
I had an interesting issue come up with a client recently.
Searchers Say: ‘The iPod Is So 2006’
Remember all that caterwauling outside of MacWorld a couple of weeks ago? The ecstatic throngs seizing up and falling to the floor upon sight of the iPhone, bringing back memories of Michael Jackson tours in the Eighties where girls would cry themselves into comas? Yeah, well, if searches for the term “iPhone” are any indication, expect that mass market hysteria to continue.
Can Google’s Digital Bookstore Succeed?
It has been widely speculated that Google’s Book Search project would become the gateway to a much larger vision that the search company had in mind all along. By going public with their intent to offer an e-book service, Google has dropped the other shoe regarding its efforts to digitize book content.
Does Google See Sub Domains as Part of Main?
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that while searching with a site command at Google Search, Google returns results that may be sub domains.
Will Steve Jobs Let Mac OS Run on Intel Boxes?
An interesting development, tucked away in an article at Fortune magazine about the company behind the Parallels software program, which allows Mac users to run Windows in a virtual machine and switch back and forth (relatively) seamlessly.