Economic Woes May Move Google To Sit On Its Money

It’s hard to imagine the death of search as we know it, but search is changing as we speak, and unless Google finds some flexibility, the company will be at the forefront of innovation no longer. The dent in Google’s armor comes from rather surprising directions, not from Microsoft or Yahoo—both with their own rigid corporate paralysis—but from Twitter and Facebook, where users create their…

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OPA To Introduce New Online Ads

The Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced Tuesday a new initiative aimed at boosting creative advertising on the Internet that meets the needs of marketers by better integrating their messages. Starting in July, online publishers including ESPN, Forbes.com, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, will start using one of three new ad units that are larger in size than traditional online…

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Fusing The Concepts Of Search And Twitter

With all of the sniping that has gone on recently between Google and that annoying little pest that keeps landing on its shoulder called Twitter wouldn’t it be nice to learn how to get value from one or the other?

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Social Networking Is Now More Popular Than Email

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that social networking is popular. According to Nielsen Online, it’s become a whole lot more popular. From December 2007 to December 2008, social networks or blogs account for nearly 10% of all Internet time, and the “Member Communities” category of sites surpassed the email category in Internet popularity, measured by time on site.

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Is A Facebook Friend, Really A Friend?

We are sifting through mountains and mountains of information and data these days. There is more to look at and digest and analyze and consider and ponder and complain about and on and on. Not only that but we now have so many friends that who has time for anything?

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