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Some Of The More Colorful Terms From SEO Jargon 10 Aug 2011 | 09:15 pm
In perusing SEO literature (by gumbo, there’s a lot of you pecking away out there!), we like to stop and ponder a meme, phrase, or bit of jargon we encounter within the context of the SEO world. Searc...
Grim, Tough Questions About Whether Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Works 16 May 2011 | 09:00 pm
We have to admit, we flinched a little when we read, 10 Questions for Social Media Measurement Success. We know that a lot of ecommerce marketing right now is more enthusiasm than follow-through. Most...
Moral: Big Corporations Astroturf Each Other, Too 10 Mar 2011 | 09:57 pm
Tech news sites seem a little too gleeful in reporting the media war between Facebook and Google. CNET reports that that fight got a lot dirtier when Facebook hired a PR company to spread naughty rumo...
Disregard TechCrunch; Use Google First. Always. 24 Jan 2011 | 04:06 pm
Controversial as always, TechCrunch gets our attention this month by questioning the “Google-it” mentality. And we’d like to not only refute things like this, but go all the way back to Socrates and l...
Is An Upgrade Too Much To Ask Of Some People? 6 Nov 2010 | 11:20 pm
Sometimes you have to wonder if we should re-think this whole software design thing. A reminder of just how over-their-heads some people are occurred recently with the story that Microsoft won’t be pr...
An Attempt To Spot Visionaries 6 Nov 2010 | 11:17 pm
An interesting quote at 37Signals leads to a blog post over at an investment firm answering Why We Prefer Founding CEOs. The names of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Ev Williams (Twitter), and Jeff Bezos ...
Is Wolfram Alpha What People Really Want? 1 Oct 2010 | 12:37 am
The World Wide Web is absolutely riddled with forgotten, abandoned search engines that seemed like great ideas on paper and performed like a dead skunk in reality. But what about an “answer engine?” T...
Toasting Some Marshmallows Over the Flame Wars 13 Sep 2010 | 08:38 pm
One of the problems with the web is that people can’t reach right through the monitor and punch each other in the nose. If they could, web fights would be over with in five minutes. Since that’s not t...
Is It Time To Be Afraid of ACTA Yet? 13 Sep 2010 | 03:29 pm
It only looks to involve the US and UK/EU at this point, but the broad plans of ACTA, the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, look like they could eventually become a de-facto standard ...