Monthly Archives: December 2009
URL Shortener Bit.ly Makes Bitly.TV
Recently, the very successful, two billion links a month, URL shortened Bit.ly launched a new website; Bitly.tv. Think of it as a video trending topic website.
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Online Shopping for 2009’s Holiday Season
I don’t like to assume, but I’m going to take a chance and guess I’m not the only one that hates the holiday shopping season. There is tons of traffic getting to the malls, when you get there it takes an hour to find parking, and then you have to deal with the hundreds of other irritated mall shoppers walking slowly in front of you or bumping into you because they feel their final destination is more important than yours.
The Truth About Facebook’s New Privacy Settings
According to ComScore, 5.5 percent of all time spent online in the U.S. during the month of November was spent on Facebook, making it the website with the most time spent on it; even more than Google, Yahoo, YouTube and Twitter.
Google Social Search vs. Bing Twitter Search
Twitter has made the social media revolution even more significant than by its forerunners; MySpace and Facebook. Celebrities, corporations, the computer savvy, and even the not-so-computer-savvy have taken interest in this word-of-mouth micro-blogging site; indeed, very powerful source for information. Both Google and Bing have taken notice of Twitters influence in the search market. They now display Twitter search results and information for other social media sites; but which search engine is doing it better?
Google Pagerank Algorithm Has More Than One Use
The New York Times produces an annual list of the year’s best ideas. This year’s, “The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas,” included a study that used Google’s Pagerank Algorithm to create an extinction model. The purpose of the study was to build a model that would measure how much the extinction of a species would [...]
How Apps Are Helping Print Media
It is no secret that print media is in trouble. There are countless newspapers and magazines that have had to close their doors, partly due to the economy, but many have also taken a hit from a growing number of readers getting their news for free on the web. I remember always having to pay [...]
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Google Chrome is Now Available for Mac
The release of Google Chrome for the Mac signifies that the browser is in demand and making some strides. While most have been skeptical, I have been happily using Chrome on my PC for some time now. The browser is easy to use, efficient, and well-designed. In prior posts, I have mentioned that the only [...]
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Google Local Business Listings: “The free way to attract more customers.”
My boss got a letter in the mail from Google in reference to their Google Maps. It seems that Google is pushing their Google Maps marketing efforts with direct mailers in hopes of raising awareness of this service.
Inside the Mind of Google: A Recap of the CNBC Show
Reporter Maria Bartiromo was given the opportunity to get a firsthand look inside the Google headquarters in Mountainview, CA. Fortunately, she decided to take us on along for the journey and dive us even deeper “Inside The Mind of Google.”
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Top Internet Topics of 2009