China Restores Access To YouTube
I’m not sure if Halloween is widely celebrated in China, but it seems the government nonetheless chose that day to present their citizens with a gift: access to YouTube. Of course, this is the same government that was responsible for them not having access for the previous couple of weeks, so the kindness of this [...]
Happy Halloween
Can you guess who I’m supposed to be?Here’s a hint…Ok. That’s Pete Sampras. I have had so many people tell me I look like Pete Sampras that it was the obvious choice for this Halloween. My wife went as the Cheerleader from Heroes (a great show), and we had a ball.Time [...] More: continued here [...]
Downtime Can Wreck SEO Efforts
Unreliable access to one’s website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine’s index.Downtime can be scarier than any Halloween spookiness for a site publisher. While search engines like Google will send their indexing spiders around multiple times to a site, too many inaccessible results due to downtime could be [...]
The Death of Google AdWords Review
When I first heard about Simon Leung’s The Death of Google AdWords, I thought to myself… “Oh no, not another death report.” There’s already been other reports in the past year with a similar theme. But out of curiosity, I took a peek anyway. Much to my surprise, this report was actually really good! The [...]
Google Not Guaranteed Top Spot Forever
Anyone who’s seen Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” has realized that lots of little creatures can constitute an extremely dangerous force. And as Halloween approaches, we have to ask: does Google, with its many competitors, have anything to be worried about? If we’re to continue our analogy to “The Birds,” it’s obvious that Google is no [...]
Facebook, BlackBerry Join Forces
Combine an addictive device – the BlackBerry – with a popular social network – Facebook – and what do you get? I’m not sure I want to know, but thanks to a new development, we’re about to find out. “Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones” launched earlier today. Given the power of its two components, we may [...]
Doc Searls Doesn’t Want To Be A Zombie
Amid a flood of Facebook invitations to be a friend, a zombie, a vampire, a hot potato tosser, and a question answerer, Searls has just said enough to the walled garden of social networking.No one should blame him for not wanting to be a zombie; there are plenty of costume choices for a supreme geek [...]
Yahoo To Axe Podcast Search
Call it a conspiracy of market timing, Moore’s Law and Murphy’s Law, but just as video killed the radio star in 1980, YouTube, and to a certain extent, the video iPod, killed the audio podcaster. Well, "kill" is a strong word. You might use "stamped down and crowded back onto its own turf," forever in [...]
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