Just how connected with customers are marketing departments today? According to a new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council study, the answer is “disconnected.” As reported in an …More...
I’ve grown quite fond of using HassleMe for daily reminders in my inbox but the new Beeplet looks pretty promising. While still in beta (but isn’t every …More...
Banking online is growing monthly. Security concerns and Web usability issues on earlier banking sites slowed the initial rate of adoption for Web-based financial services. However, now …More...
Wisconsin radio reporter Jackie Johnson grew weary of hearing people mispronounce her state’s counties, cities, and public officials. After all, how many people can confidently and correctly …More...
The number of Internet users in China is increasing at a rapid rate. The Internet opens up a whole new world of opportunities and knowledge for its …More...
Today we introduce a few changes to our homepage and introduce a couple of new elements. The biggest change we made is moving the category and archive …More...
This is disturbing. Researchers from the Harvard School for Public Health and Children’s Hospital Boston have determined that kids eat an equivalent of a bag of potato …More...
I saw someone weaving across the centerline on a two-way road this morning. It wasn’t long ago that I would have assumed I was behind a drunken …More...
It remains a waiting game for the 12 Knight-Ridder newspapers that will be sold by McClatchy Company, their soon-to-be (but temporary) owner. One bidder is Yucaipa Companies, …More...
Late last week, Google released its latest performance figures. Yeah, search is big, but nobody was expecting this big. First quarter profits rose 60 percent to $592 …More...
A post on Doc Searls’ blog caught me off guard today. It’s a beautiful spring day in Minnesota lake country. The ice is out. It’s warm and …More...
When FeedRinse was launched, I was excited because it meant somebody close to home had finally released a Web2.0 app. This past week saw the launch of …More...
John Gruber’s Daring Fireball is one of my favorite blogs, in fact, it probably is. I can’t think of another that I would rather take with me …More...
People looking to assess their own or someone else’s personality via online tools have an amazing number of options. One of the latest and most intriguing is …More...
MPM. No it’s not a new version of a popular candy. It’s Marketing Performance Measurement, words that can strike fear in the hearts of marketing executives, or …More...
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s new Alertbox column reports his latest findings on how users read web pages. According to Nielsen’s eyetracking study, users most frequently scan pages …More...
I first came to China in the fall of 2002 on a study abroad trip to Chongqing, a city in southwest China on the banks of the …More...
A new State of the Blogosphere report from David Sifry shows the number of blogs increasing at a dizzying pace. According to the report, Technorati—the blog search …More...
Seth Godin chimes in with his take on how the homepage is no longer the spot you should focus so much attention. Rather, like I’ve mentioned before, …More...
What started as a trickle has now become a torrent. Old media is moving to new media; old money is moving to new money. The real action …More...
I’m forgetful. There I’ve admitted it. That’s the first step to recovery isn’t it? To-do lists have never really worked for me, so when I found two …More...
In this era of copy-and-paste convenience, your online content will be stolen. The only question is when it will occur. What’s the incentive, and why would someone …More...
First, it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers a few weeks ago. Last week, the Dave Matthews Band succumbed to fan pressure and also added their entire …More...
I have to be honest, I’m not much of a calendar guy. I minimally use one at work to keep track of meetings, outside of that I …More...
There was an interesting story last week in the Boston Herald about the bubble generation. Back in the 1990s, Faith Popcorn, a pop trend forecaster, gave us …More...
Writers and editors love snappy headlines. And why not? Headlines help sell more copies and attract more online readers, and this viewership, online and offline, helps fuel …More...
Remember iPac, the folks gathering donations to buy video iPods for our senators to broaden their view of copyright and patent laws in this age of rapidly …More...
Shel Holtz has an excellent post on why many intranets remain stagnant with slow adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Although blogs and wikis are slowly catching on, …More...
Disney’s ABC was the first network with shows for sale on iTunes and now they look to be the first with a full range of shows available …More...
Depending on the source you read, many books on the subject of chess say one of the big differences between the great players and the average players …More...
This afternoon after my morning Chinese class, I ventured out with two of my classmates to grab a quick lunch. Grabbing a “quick” lunch in China is …More...
There is an interesting topic on Adrants today. The whole misappropriated make-your-own-tahoe-commercial-thing last week really got this discussion going. With all the capabilities that Web 2.0 provides, …More...
I saw it again. This time I had to speak up. I was reading a Doc Searls post, and he referred to a story in the Washington …More...
It looks like there is another Web 2.0 business model ready to compete with the Freemium model I talked about last week. Facebook, the popular community site …More...
The Gmaps Pedometer is a nifty extension of Google Maps that allows you to measure the distance of your favorite hiking, running, biking or walking route. It’s …More...
Several reports lately have pointed to large increases in corporate budgets for Web development. The latest confirmation of this trend comes from Piper Jaffray senior research analyst …More...
A recent Pew Internet & American Life report has several noteworthy findings about the relationship between broadband Internet usage and online news consumption. According to the report, …More...
Today, Apple announced new software called Boot Camp that will allow you to install Windows XP on any Intel-based Macintosh. For the time being, Boot Camp …More...
I saw this story on Wired News. It came from New York Times columnist David Pogue. As the story states: “Late tonight—specifically, 123 seconds after 1:00 a.m.—the …More...
Dustin from Web Standards With Imagination has decreed April 5, 2006 to be the First Annual CSS Naked Day when sites should go sans style sheets for …More...
A race is on to develop “new and improved” ways to track Web surfers’ behaviors, far beyond the standard click counts and page views that track what …More...
The call to move more marketing dollars online started in earnest a few years ago with a limited number of brave pundits. Even then, most of those …More...
