Scott Adams Easing Back On Blogging
Dilbert’s creator has been a regular blogger, contributing frequently to his site to the delight of his fans, but there will be less delight coming from Adams in the future.
U.N. Behind “Hunger Bytes” YouTube Contest
The competition has a slightly goofy name – “Hunger Bytes” – and a strange logo – a globe with two pointy teeth. But this YouTube-centric contest is for a good cause, and it’s backed by the United Nations World Food Program.
Traffic To Microsoft Increases (Slightly)
As a search competitor, Microsoft is pretty much a failure – both comScore and Hitwise saw a drop in its already-small market share during October. The corporation is far from finished, however, and it seems that traffic to Microsoft’s many sites actually rose.
Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets
First impressions are important, and as people, we prove ourselves with handshakes and “hello”s. In Google’s search results, websites are represented by a paragraph or so of information, and the company’s own Matt Cutts recently took a few minutes to discuss these snippets.
Digg Blocked For “Bandwidth Theft”
It’s hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com has now introduced WhyDiggIsBlocked.com.
French, Canadians, (Mark) Cuban Go After P2P
Torrents and peer-to-peer networks have had a rough couple of weeks lately. In addition to Cox and Comcast’s recent blocking of torrent sites, file-sharing has been under assault in France and Canada, not to mention from billionaire Mark Cuban.
Monday Morning Link Fest …
From Apple to Microsoft to Google, there is hot news written. Below are some of the more interesting articles involving eBusiness and search today.
Another obvious patent gets paid off by Apple. Apple has agreed to pay Burst a $10 million payment for infringing on its 1990 streaming video technology patent.
Wal-Mart Kicks Off “Cyber Week”
Compared to most retailers, Wal-Mart is really, really big. So it only makes sense that the company is doing away with Cyber Monday, and is instead focusing on an entire “Cyber Week.”
Microsoft Plans Datacenter For Siberia
The regularly chilly but increasingly industrialized city of Irkutsk will have Microsoft as a datacenter resident.
Positive Face Time Equals Good Branding
The more I dig, the more I’m convinced that a big part of a brand’s success is the quality of its customer touch points, specifically, the face to face ones. Consider this overwhelming evidence:
The more emotion there is in an experience, the more vividly we remember it. It’s known as imprinting. So if we have very positive or very negative experiences, we remember them longer and more completely.