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March, 2008

Just got back from a week in the wilds of Utah hunting light and photographic landscape icons with my camera. There are a few photos from the …More...

Two recent studies illustrate how users are often disappointed in online content. The relevant content isn’t there, it’s difficult to locate, or it doesn’t connect with the …More...

You may recall the halcyon days of the late ‘90s: Amazon was just a book store, Google wasn’t the top search engine, and Internet Explorer was an …More...

Tired of making trips to the bank to stuff legal documents in a safe deposit box? Now consumers can lock up their important documents online, thanks to …More...

| View | Upload your own Last week I posted about a YouTube video on the future of advertising from Ben Hourahine at Leo Burnett, London …More...

Apple definitely knows how to feed off the buzz.

The future of advertising as predicted by Ben Hourahine, futures editor at Leo Burnett in London. There is a lot to think about here in just 2 …More...

Stories were all over the place this weekend about China denying its Internet users access to YouTube because of videos posted about the crackdown in Tibet (see …More...

Two obvious business “beneficiaries” of all the attention the Spitzer scandal is generating are MySpace and Facebook. Publicity about Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s profile on both social networks …More...

SD West, one of the nation’s premier software development conventions, just concluded SD West 2008.  Yours truly was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and for …More...

Last week Microsoft released a beta test version of their next generation Web browser, Internet Explorer 8. This new update offers one thing that will make Web …More...

What is the Google “Sucks Index” (GSI)? Go to Google Search. Enter your company’s name followed by the word “sucks.” Hit return. Voilà! There before you in …More...

Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, delivered a presentation at the SXSW conference this last week in Austin, Texas that provided a glimpse into that company’s …More...

A new Pew Internet study shows people would have a more difficult time giving up their cell phone than any other technology. As the table at right …More...

While most companies these days have learned to take advantage of marketing opportunities on the World Wide Web, there aren’t many that are bold enough to leave …More...

Social media has crossed the chasm. A new study by TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony shows that nearly 50 percent of worldwide senior marketing executives now believe social media …More...

While watching this recent TED presentation by Steve Jurvetson on amateur rocketry, I was struck by the similarity between launching a marketing campaign and launching a …More...



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