Google Releasing New Blogger Version
Google engineers suffered the wrath of bloggers last week when “a significant number of unplanned outages” of the search company’s Blogger blogging platform. Google decided to try the transparency in PR blogging concept at the Blogger Buzz blog (that’s a lot of blogging for one intro, isn’t it?) by apologizing and announcing a new beta version of Blogger.
Social Networking The VOX Way
A new social network called VOX launched today, and before you can say, “Oh no. Not another MySpace.” Listen up first. Six Apart, owner of Live Journal, Typepad, and MoveableType also own VOX and while they may offer some MySpace-like features (what social network service doesn’t?), they do have a unique approach to a couple […]
On, On To Social Marketing
How often have you left the house or picked up a phone in search of a salesperson? Is it less often than you seek out friends, colleagues, or relatives? How often do those networks lead to a salesperson via recommendation? More often than your own initiative? If so, you’ll understand what the Web is becoming.
Online Video Continues To Shine
The online video age, with the eye-popping Google/YouTube acquisition serving as an initial punctuation, is not going away. The popularity of this growing industry is only going to increase, especially once the movie industry picks up their feet and catches up with the vloggers. Case in point, there have been a few ccurrences in the […]
New Audience Metric Needed
I was just reading Jeneane Sessum’s post about the latest Ze Frank/Rocketboom dustup and she’s right, we need to measure stuff other than just whether a download got completed or not.
Google Maps Eliminates Usability Mistake
Gogole Maps had one incredibly annoying feature: Click the name of your search result in the balloon on the map, and get transported to a new page with more info on the result, including a mini-map and search results. While the more info page was very useful, the fact that it was a new page and appeared in the same tab made it very annoying, since you had to go Back to the map, and hope it reloaded correctly.
How Consumer Online Research Impacts Sales
A June 2006 joint study conducted by Yahoo and the Consumer Electronics Association asserts that seventy-seven percent of all consumer electronics purchases were influenced by online research. The study also examines the role of search in consumer research.
Racist Blogs Land Google In Hot Water
Google is becoming involved in yet another battle that may test its dedication to “free speech”: an Australian group has accused the company’s Blogger site of hosting what it describes as “racist and neo-Nazi content.” The group has requested that the offensive blogs be removed, but Google hasn’t budged.
Social Media Spamming
The buzz amongst online marketers and bloggers about marketing with social media has generated a lot of interesting discussion.
A Plea To Online Grammar Butchers
This is a plea for the Language, pruned for the Internet, whittled down to bite-sized chunks, as naked as a tree in winter without the punctuation, spelling, or grammar required for, when the season’s full, expressing its own majesty. Instant messaging. andemail. done skrood it all up