This post at Search Engine Journal references a social media project at Carnegie Mellon called Socialstream which, among other things, was created to "rethink and reinvent social networking".
A Grim Future for Small Behavioral Targeting Networks
With Google, MSFT and Yahoo buying Doubleclick, Aquantive and RightMedia respectively and more acquisitions coming in the near future, it seems like these giants will own the online advertising space.
The Future Of Video Goes Through Adobe
Adobe’s Media Player will debut sometime this summer. There is a good chance Adobe’s ecosystem plans for digital media will solidify its role in content creation and serving.
Social Search – The Future of Image Search
[Disclaimer: I’m CEO of Zooomr, we are building both a social based image search system as well as a stock photography platform]
SEM’s Future: What WILL and WILL NOT Matter
The SEM Industry is rapidly changing, this includes the search engines (their SERP algorithms and spiders), SEO Tactics, and SEM Strategies. Off the top of my head I have come up with 5 things that WILL NOT matter in SEM in the future and 5 things that marketers should stay on top of.
Japan’s SEO Future
On my last day in Japan, I can report that there is a huge market for Japanese SEO services.
Site Inventory for Future Use
One of the great things about having clients is that they provide a financial platform you can use to reinvest in different areas.
That means building and promoting sites in your target vertical – but also reinvesting some of the cash into building and promoting sites into other verticals you may want to get involved with at a later date.
The Future of Video – Now
We are in PR. We know the medium is the message, and people love videos. PR has used video news releases and satellite media tours to great results – I always had great returns on SMTs, and think that they were great hits for the clients. But, we ran into some problems there, didn’t we.
Digg – Future or Feature?
No matter how you slice it, getting to a million registered users is a pretty impressive achievement for Digg, a service that Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson and a couple of others started as a lark after TechTV shut down and Kevin was looking for something to do. It may be true that the million number has a lot of holes in it, as some of the commenters over at TechCrunch have pointed out — multiple accounts, etc. — but still impressive nonetheless.
Gord’s Caffeine-Fueled Vision of the Future
This week, for some reason (largely to do with thinking I could still handle caffeine and being horribly wrong), a number of pieces fell into place for me when it came to looking at how we might interact with computers and the Internet in the future.