Google Dominating the RSS Market?
One of the things that has been interesting to see over the course of the past year is how Google has been quietly dominating the RSS market. While this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given Google’s market clout today it’s been interesting to watch it happening.
Be Careful with Facebook
Facebook is a great service – my 17-year-old daughter and all her friends use it (I have an account too), and so does my cousin who is at McGill University in Montreal, where she engages in the typical sort of debauchery expected of second-year college students, and then posts pictures of said debauchery on her site for all her friends to see.
Celebrating Website Mistakes
I met a lovely reader today, who responded to seeing my blog post yesterday on accessbility. I wrote about the topic not as expert, but as a student.
Online Research Influences Offline Sales
Online browsing and research will increase offline retail sales by 12 percent over the next five years according to JupiterResearch. In their new report, “U.S. Online Retail Forecast, 2006-2011” growth of offline sales will reach 40 percent of total U.S. retail sales.
The Basics Of Short Selling Stocks
‘Shorting’ or short selling refers to the selling of a contract, a bond or stock or a commodity that is not directly owned by the seller. When practicing short selling, a seller is committed to purchase the stock or commodity previously sold.
Outsourcing a Digg Army
This is probably a non-starter, but it’s fun to think about. It’s well known among the most ardent click fraud combatants that there are armies of low-paid workers in the world that are paid to do nothing but click on ads all day – in India, Vietnam, Thailand, and others. But what if the pay-per-digg model was expanded by some crafty, unethical, profiteer through outsourcing?
Sullivan Interviews Techmeme’s Rivera
Q&A With Gabe Rivera, Creator Of Techmeme Techmeme may be the singlemost significant news site I’ve found in the last five years. There is no single source on the internet that does a faster more relevant snapshot view of what is happening in the world of tech than Techmeme.
MSN adCenter Showcases New SEM Offerings
In the face of recurrent search losses, this week Microsoft showed off what its much-touted adCenter Labs has been working on. At Demo Fest in Redmond, Mr. Softie showcased what the company called “breakthrough digital tools” focused on improving keyword and content technologies, ad selection and relevance, audience intelligence, social networking, video, platforms, and devices.
ASP.NET: Choose a Standard Number Format
Today, I ran into an issue regarding the way numbers are parsed in different cultures, which resulted in very wrong numbers.
Are You Ready For Some Super Bowl Ads?
In 3 weeks (from this Sunday), America’s biggest sporting event kicks off. As you can tell by little metaphor there, the game I’m talking about the NFL Super Bowl. Not only is Super Bowl known for being one of the most watched individual sporting events in the world, it is also one the hottest spots […]