Zurker: Social Network for the 99 Percent?

by on February 5, 2012 in Article

As far as I know, no one has ever set up an online social network as effectively a co-op before, and as you’d expect, Zurker’s set-up isn’t quite that simple. As Zurker’s About page explains, Every Zurker user becomes a co-owner (future shareholder) of Zurker. As Zurker hasn’t had an IPO or anything of that [...]

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The Future of Cereal Packaging Includes a Digital Surprise

by on February 2, 2012 in Article

What did you read as you ate breakfast this morning? The newspaper or the back of the cereal box? It’s a funny bit of pop culture behavior, reading cereal boxes, but Mark Addicks of General Mills says that on average, a person reads the text on their box 12 times. Some of those people are [...]

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The EXACT Method for Crushing It On Google

by on January 30, 2012 in Article

Now, to be fair, I have talked about pieces of this in my last article. In fact, I’ve been harping on two aspects of this: the use of Google+ (which I’m going to shorten to just G+ from here on out) and becoming an authority in your market. The problem with the whole authority thing [...]

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Social Sign-Ons Help Marketers Discover the Real You

by on January 27, 2012 in Article

Xander: “Sure he says he’s a high school student, but I can say I’m a high school student.” Buffy: “You are.” Xander: “Okay, but I can also say that I’m an elderly Dutch woman. Get me? I mean, who’s to say I’m not if I’m in the elderly Dutch chat room?” Xander makes a good [...]

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Today’s Women Are Decisive, Ambitious and Stressed

by on January 25, 2012 in Article

I am woman and if you hear me roar, it’s probably because I’m at the overload point and there’s still grocery shopping to be done, dinner to be made and bills to be paid. Grrr. In this, I am not alone. Look at this chart from a new survey by Hearst Magazines and Fleishman-Hillard International [...]

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Twitter to Acquire News Aggregator Summify

by on January 22, 2012 in Article

To boost its news management capabilities, Twitter will acquire Summify, a site which allows users to collect and summarize news items into a single visual feed. The service deliver the news feeds as a web page, email message, or mobile application.

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Twitter Nears the 500 Million Mark, But How Many Have Flown the Coop?

by on January 19, 2012 in Article

Hear that? That’s the sound of 9.3 people registering a new Twitter account. According to Twopcharts, that happens every second. Who knew? Here’s a cool chart that shows how many people registered just before I wrote this: At this rate, Twopcharts predicts that Twitter will cross the 500 million mark sometime in February. But unlike [...]

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Google Flight Search Not a Monopolist Move

by on January 16, 2012 in Article

Just in case you missed it, this new tool came on the scene about four months ago as the first fruit of the search giant’s purchase of travel software company ITA. At the time Google acquired ITA, the US Department of Justice required it to develop and license travel software, to establish internal firewall procedures [...]

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The Google/Microsoft Comparison: Industry Reaction to Antitrust Debate

by on January 14, 2012 in Article

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is considering filing an FTC complaint, even after two of the senators involved in the first subcommittee investigation suggested an FTC investigation last month. Google has cherry-picked positive quotes f…

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Nicolas Steno, Geology Pioneer, Celebrated by Google Doodle

by on January 11, 2012 in Article

A new Google Doodle today honors the 374th birthday of the Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno, the man widely regarded as the father of modern geology. The new inanimate Doodle features the Google logo with letters sketched out of three to five laye…

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