Archive for 'Business'

Microsoft Surface and AT&T Stores

The promise of the Microsoft Surface is now starting to come to life. AT&T is starting a roll out of the Surface as way to help demonstrate phone capabilities and provide services to existing phones while in store.
The big U.S. wireless provider says its retail customers will be able to place specific mobile phones [...]

Social Networking Growth

I just recently came across some interesting information that I thought I’d share with everyone.
According to the Internet research and trend analysis website, eMarketer.com, ad spending on social networking sites is anticipated to grow 75% next year and ad revenue for niche communities is expected to grow to 10% from 8.2% in 2007.
This is [...]

Easily Build a Facebook Application

Facebook’s ability for users and companies to make and distribute applications within its social network has been a rather unstoppable force within the Web 2.0 world. And it has been exciting seeing all the applications that have been developed and all the companies that have jumped on board to build their presence on Facebook. But [...]

Private Beta Invites – Free!

We all know there’s nothing cooler than being the first on the block to have that new gadget. And the same goes for having early access to that hot new website currently in beta.
Why? Well… We get the status of being an “insider,” but mostly I think we just like to have bragging rights.
Still, whatever [...]

YouTube Launches In Video Ads – See Example

Google has formally announced that it will begin trying ads on select YouTube videos. The way this will work, according to the announcement, is by having a short ad rise up from the bottom 20% of the video. The ad will have an X for you to close it out if you wish, and if [...]

Google Video Downloads…They Tried, Failed, Tried, Messed Up and now Try Again

In case you missed it, Google officially ended its DTO/DTR (download to own, download to rent) video service last week. Google let folks who had previously purchased a video know (like me!) that:
…we will no longer offer the ability to buy or rent videos for download from Google Video, ending the DTO/DTR (download-to-own/rent) program. This [...]

Wireless, On-Demand On The Take Over

Over the past couple of days, we’ve seen the next wave of video and audio content delivery pick up steam. Wireless on-demand services for portable devices such as mobile phones and portable gaming devices like the PSP are now becoming a reality. Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe and SKY teamed up to [...]

YouTube Copyright Filtering by September

A Google lawyer announced on Friday that they will apply video fingerprinting technology to YouTube by September.
This comes as great news to countless of video content producers, that are now seeing their copyright videos on YouTube without their permission.
The video screening technology will consist of a computer system which will automatically scan all videos uploaded [...]

Be Your Own Boss- Be a Blogger!

Blogging as we know it today is a relatively new idea and one that has taken the internet by storm. Simply put… Blogs are the newest and best ways for getting any and all news. And for good reason; blogs give anyone with a computer and the internet the opportunity to express thoughts and spread [...]

How not to handle social media

There have been some recent revelations (see article) on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey (aka “rahodeb”) who, from 1999 to 2006, made several anonymous postings on financial forums and sites putting down his company’s rival competitor Wild Oats. Among other postings, Mackey wrote that Wild Oates’ management “clearly doesn’t know what it is doing” and [...]