The McDonaldization Of The Internet
A new report from Hitwise highlights a trend that matches what's going on in the brick-and-mortar world: The mainstreaming of everything. It also…
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A new report from Hitwise highlights a trend that matches what's going on in the brick-and-mortar world: The mainstreaming of everything. It also…
Late last year, the British Prime Minister asked a clinical psychologist to look at the risks the Internet and video games pose to children. Dr. Tanya Byron has now come back with several suggestions that the government has said it will follow.
I remember sitting in on a session at one of the Search Engine Strategies conferences as a befuddled metrics firm rep told a crowd of equally befuddled marketers that a significant percentage of the search population actually typed the URL of the desired website into the search bar.
A new poll by the AOL Television Web site found that viewers favorite daytime TV host was Ellen Degeneres who received 46 percent of the vote beating out Oprah Winfrey who pulled in 19 percent of the vote.
Google had posted 'recommendations on how to take advantage of universal search' last year, in an effort to let the webmasters receive more relevant search traffic. In spite of this previous post, at the SMX West conference last month 'universal' and 'personalized' search remained the core of the conference topics.
A surprising number of people, and indeed some surprising people, are now using Twitter to give status reports on what is happening in their corner of the universe. The strict imposition of no more than 140 characters and spaces seems to concentrate the mind most effectively. Tweats are of course produced by human writers. Twitter can certainly be rated a success.