Google recently unveiled Google Instant, which displays search results to a user as they type. The benefits of these changes, according to Google, are as follows: Predictive Typing: As you type, a prediction is made of what you are seeking. Instant Results: As you type, the results appear. Every new character updates the search results [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Pay Per Click, Search, Search Engines, SEM, SEO, Uncategorized on September 10th, 2010 | No Comments »
Facebook recently released the “Like” feature. In the past for each item in your needs feed you could select several options via some text links at the bottom of the news item — “Comment” and “Share”. Now, they are adding “Like” to the list. When you select “Like”, your profile news feed will update with [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Social Media, Social Networking, Web Business on February 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality. Now it is a reality. Watch this [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Research, Usability on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
MarketingProfs.com had a fantastic article on how to market to digital natives. These digital natives can be youths who were raised with these new communication mediums to web workers who are immersed in the various technologies and tools. The article links to this great analysis of how digital natives think differently from others. The presentation [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, Research, Social Media, Usability, Web Business on November 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states, Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Marketing Strategy, Pay Per Click, Search, SEM, SEO, Web Business on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really. How Google Crawls Flash The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little help from Adobe. “Adobe [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, SEM, SEO, Web Business on July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have you noticed that a lot of your friends are more likely to shop online as a way to combat $4/gallon or more gas prices? Indeed, you have spotted a significant trend. One-third (33 percent) of online US adults are more likely to shop online, rather than at a store, because of high gas prices, [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, SEM, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Business on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
Cisco, in collaboration with Musion, recently had a live “telepresence” presentation. Specifically, it combines voice and data and presents it with a full body holographic image. While the script to this presentation is beyond terrible, this is some technology to follow. So far, they have 28 customers, with 150 “rooms” at Cisco alone. Rather than [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Facebook‘s growth has begun decelerating. In April 2008 Facebook traffic declined 10%, dropping from 24.9M to 22.4M unique visits. Furthermore, year over year growth declined from 98% to 56%. During this same time, LinkedIn jumped 361%, propelling it to the 4th largest social network destination. Trouble is brewing for Facebook, and it smells like a [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Social Networking, Web Business on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Currently, the average person pays at least $60/month for cable, or about $750/year. And this is 77% up from just 12 years ago, nearly twice the rate of inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s just over $2/day, every day, for a year. For what? Demand for the Internet TV Revolution According to [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Media, Web Business on May 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
