Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) just might be the wave of the future. Microsoft looks to be banking on it too as they announced further support for the IPTV software platform at the International Broadcasters Convention, IBC2005 in Amsterdam.
Orion Points Arrow Toward Future of Search
A story floating around some science/computing journals right now is Orion. I don’t mean the ancient Greek god, I’m referring to a search engine in development at the University of New South Wales by PhD student Ori Allon. The Orion search engine is based on tightening searches even further by examining content that is STRONGLY related to the topic at hand.
Seeing Into Google’s Future
Google may plan to redefine the term PPC to mean “pay-per-call” as it focuses on dominating local search markets.
Yahoo Not Playing Games With Search Future
Yahoo! isn’t lying down in the battle for search supremacy. They’re in it tooth and nail, scrapping with Google and MSN to build a search engine reflective of the $500 million annual engineering budget allocated to procuring the brightest talent from college campuses as well as more high profile search masters like Prabhakar Raghavan. Raghavan’s goals are lofty, stuffed with rhetoric that includes ambitions of Nobel Prize winning search technology.
Ten Reasons Why Online Surveys are the Future of Marketing
Customers are tough cookies. They’re extremely media aware and increasingly cynical – it’s a clever marketeer who can get under their skin.
Cost-Per-Action in the Near Future
To say that the search engine marketing industry is booming would be an understatement. And Pay-Per-Click (PPC), the method by which advertisers pay each time a searcher clicks on their sponsored link as a result of a search query using relevant terms, is a large part of that industry.
Is There A Future For Spam?
Will you always be buried underneath a mountain of spam? Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? With the current flood of spam to your inbox and ever more devious practices on the part of spammers you’d be forgiven for thinking that spam is here to stay.
The Future of Search: Finding Your Place in the Hive
The Internet is changing. In the near future, the “web” concept may prove too primitive to properly describe the evolutionary nature of the beast. Something more abstract perhaps, like Jung’s collective unconscious model-a digital beehive of collective information, honeycombs stacked high and deep with information. And so, searching the nectars of the hive should also change as spiders evolve into honeybees.
The Future of Communications – Voice Over Internet Protocol
When was the last time that you were able to make a long-distance call for free? If you said “never”, you probably have not been introduced to VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol.
The Future of RSS is Not Blogs
Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel.