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Apple’s best ad campaign yet?

Friday, 15 October 2010 by
If this doesn’t make you want to run out an buy an iPhone, it will certainly make you want to pick up the Atomic Tom single “Take Me Out.” This music video was filmed, unannounced (though hardly spontaneously), last week Friday aboard a New York City train over the Manhattan Bridge. To be clear, this
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Yahoo’s New Search IU – Universal Search Finally Getting Somewhere?

Friday, 08 October 2010 by
The promise of Universal Search or One Search has, for years, waffled between the promise of a better search experience and the reality of results diluted with local listings, videos, images, social network chatter, and other content often irrelevant to the needs of the user. Simply, the idea behind Universal Search is that one set
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Mashups: Stayin’ Alive In The Wall (Pink Floyd & the Bee Gees)

Thursday, 07 October 2010 by
For those that know me personally, you know that I’m a tremendous music history fan. In fact, I got my start on the internet with a website called The Octopus’s Garden, a site I built to promote my love of classic rock and some fun facts about The Beatles, The Eagles, & Pink Floyd. While
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Working for a Startup is All Fun and Games

Thursday, 03 December 2009 by
If this doesn’t at least want to make you want to consider working for a startup… Jump to 4:10 to catch Outright.com’s mystery founders getting their groove on and thanks to First Round Capital for a great idea last holiday season
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10 Twitter Lists You Need to Set Up

Friday, 30 October 2009 by
If you haven’t yet been introduced to Twitter Lists (they are in beta), you are in for a treat. As you use Twitter, and over time amass thousands of people that you follow, you’ll quickly find that paying any meaning full attention to the stream is impossible. Such an experience certainly explains the speculation that
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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by
I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different
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Ping bing – The SEO Tongue Twister

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 by
One of the techniques used to attract search engine spiders to your blog or website is called pinging. Essentially, you alert the search engine of any changes to your site and it draws a crawler to reindex the content. This works on the same basic technology as the Trackback and Pingback with which you might
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