Maybe it’s the future of music and maybe it’s not, but I think U2’s experiment with Facebook and the iLike widget is a pretty interesting move.
Email (And Its Users) Not Getting Any Younger
I tend to blink a few times upon receiving a handwritten letter, but there’s an increasing realization that really young people – and I’m only in my 20s – might have the same reaction to an email.
People Search is Getting Social
Wink.com says they’re the largest people search engine in the world. But to me, they look like a people meta-search engine, pulling their information from the web at large as well as from MySpace, LinkedIn and other people search engines. Now they’re expanding their site to include profiles.
For once, the connection between a product (the people search website) and a social network actually made perfect sense to me: you can “claim” your profile in search results, then add to it or modify it.
Spammers Getting Around Captchas
Talk about creative workarounds. Spammers have found a way to crack captchas so they can steal your email address. As if the vice of spamming isn’t bad enough, they are using a virtual stripper named Melissa to get real people to unwittingly participate in their evil craft.
Strategies For Getting Into Podcasting
Murdok’ Kara Ratliff caught up to Roxanne Darling from Bare Feet Studios and Beach Walks with Rox at the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo.
Rumor: Google’s Gmail Getting New Features?
This is one of two Google rumors that surfaced over the weekend. The other one is here.
Getting Better Employees Than Google
Google offers its employees an amazing collection of perks, but other companies need workers, too, and those companies don’t want to deal exclusively with Mountain View’s leftovers. So Forbes’s Brian Caulfield figured out several ways to compete with Google during the hiring process.
Getting To Know Google Australia
Australia’s all alone out there, thousands of miles from everything (except Papa New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand), and most people don’t know too much about it. It seems that, even within the continent, Google’s Australian branch is also one big question mark. So the Australian Googlers have filled the public in on some of their accomplishments and quirks.
Getting Customers With Google Coupons
Google is able do a lot of things for businesses, including telling potential customers how to reach them. Granted, it won’t tell potential customers why they should go to (or contact) those businesses, but Jennifer Laycock’s recent article on Google Coupons can clear up even that issue.
Getting Strangers to Talk About YOU, Godin’s Way
Are you trying to get some attention? Not a simple task these days…
Some of the world’s smartest people keep their secrets tight to their chest.
Not Seth Godin. Seth is full of marketing genius and you can learn a bunch by watching him.
One of his new ventures is called Squidoo.