During today’s announcement by Apple for the iPhone 4S, their website totally crashed. And I mean “Crashed”. It was down for a little over an hour. And after Apple announced that the iPhone 4S was going to be available on the Sprint Network. Boom, Sprints Phone page crashes… and it’s been crashed for about 2 [...]
Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
[EDIT Oct. 3, 2011] – Thanks to @FakhriZina and @OperationLeakS for sharing this humdinger of a video :: Day Trader tells truth live on UK BBCNews 9/26/11 This morning I began my day reading over the messages from those who are showing their support for the #OccupyWallStreet movement by posting pictures of notes that tell [...]
It’s an age old discussion. Does SEO go under the Marketing umbrella? Or does it fit under the Information Technology umbrella? Quite simply, it fits under both. It’s the bridge over troubled waters. It’s the mojo that gets your website workin’. But where does SEO fit in your organization optimally? First of all, what is [...]
Edit 9:10am Sept. 30 : Regardless of being played the fool (along with a lot of other people) I stick by my last edit – that it opened up a larger discussion on authenticity and social media. There have been many interesting conversations regarding authenticity in social media, ghost writers, automated posts, personal branding and [...]
When LG Mobile asked me to be one of their esteemed bloggers and tweeps at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of meeting Arnold Aranez, “Mr. Gadget” from down under in Australia. He has since moved to Hong Kong and has created one of the most amazing iPad cases [...]
If you want to win, you must have the attitude that your product kicks ass. Does your idea kick ass? Does it makes people bow down to the badassness that you are creating? Does it excite you? Can it excite other people? Does it excite your team to work overtime and stay late… and desire [...]
Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]
UPDATE :: FCC Looks into BART Mobile Phone Shutdown — San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cut cell phone service due to Protestors planning a rally on August 11, 2011 to bring attention to a number of recent BART transit police officer shootings. In the wake of the havoc in London, where Prime Minister [...]
Google+ is transforming our social experience. No longer does the internet have to be columns of RSS feeds full of endless, faceless articles… it now can be “RSS feeds” of journalists, authors, writers, entrepreneurs and other thought leaders that you can interact with. This is why Google+ is a game changer. Now, that I’ve been [...]
Early this morning I was poking around Facebook like many millions of people do each day, when I saw a post by my friend Deirdre Reid aka @deirdrereid. She commented on how @MrMichael_Smith of @ESPN had posted tweets on how funny he thought the accident of Dutch cyclist Johnny Hoogerland was on twitter. Yep you [...]
By now, we all know the latest and greatest social media craze is Google+. What we don’t know is how this new tool is going to affect the SEO industry. Personally, I’ve been doing SEO since the late 90′s and many iterations of what’s good practice and bad practice have changed as the industry has [...]
Google+ profile URLs are long, cumbersome things. Mine is https://plus.google.com/u/0/107496519574681170790/posts. How in the hell is anyone going to remember that? Zero percent chance of remembering that. Ok? Sure, Google+ is still in beta, but a vanity URL would be quite handy. Et voilà! Here is the remedy for what ails you. Gplus.to, the unofficial short [...]
Google+ soft launched in a limited beta, last week, and thus far, many tech pundits are giving it glowing reviews. It is interesting to see the points of view from some of social media pioneer entrepreneurs perspective on Google’s latest foray into social. Google Wave and Google Buzz were Google minus. Google+ is getting lots [...]
Silicon Valley is all about creating the next big thing. The trio that helped turn Twitter into an Internet sensation has joined forces for another go-around at internet glory. But, how this affect Twitter? Biz Stone said Tuesday he’s leaving his full-time gig at Twitter to resurrect the Internet incubator Obvious Corp. with Evan Williams [...]
As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]
If you haven’t heard by now… first of all, where the hell have you been? So, on May 27, 2011, Rep. Anthony Weiner “accidentally” sent a link via Twitter of his weiner. He couldn’t have imagined the backlash that would ensure. By not sending this message as a DM, direct message, this became an embarrassing [...]
Facebook is about to evolve it’s look with some of the coolest software designs on the planet, as they’ve acquired Sofa, a Dutch design firm. When we started Sofa in 2006, we set out to make friendly, useful and enjoyable products that matter to people. Over the years, we built an awesome team of designers [...]
Google is taking mobile localization to the next level. They are now leveraging their location based services feature on smart phones w/ Near Me News.
Today, Facebook launched a feature that will certainly help all social media managers managing large brands, the ability to tag the pages of great and companies in your photos. Now the Facebook, the brand/page photos, partly based off of their users privacy settings and will only appear on a brands tab, if that visibility is [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]
I’ll get straight to the point here. Is it just me, or are there local results showing up for not-so-local searches? At SMX West last week, someone asked Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management for Google Local, about what to do if their business doesn’t have a physical location. Carter sayssss: Don’t create a Places [...]
I know this isn’t necessarily a search blog, which is why I deemed it necessary to post about the Google vs Bing so maybe those who are out of the loop can join in on the discussion! Let’s start with why I’m writing a post on how Google and Bing got beef, because you’re probable [...]
Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]
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