Archive for August, 2008
Has Dell’s Comeback Hit a Roadblock?
Google’s Needle Hits Yahoo’s Vein in October, Says CEO
While Bloomberg News takes a good amount of flack for yapping about a stone-cold Steve Jobs when it’s well known that the man’s blood is still rich and warm, another bigwig of the tech realm, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the publication’s reporters Peter Cook and Crayton Harrison about his company’s fascination with Yahoo [...]
Income and poverty: Size up your state
The Great Lake State was the only one in the union to see a drop in median household income and a jump in its poverty rate in 2007, according to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. Much of the decline stems from the turmoil in the auto sector, which has shed tens of thousands of jobs [...]
20+ Tools to Make Any Email Inbox More Social
Studies have shown that we spend a great deal of our online time in our inbox. There have been many interesting techniques and strategies for saving time and managing your email in better ways. You know, things like how to be an email ninja, how to achieve inbox zero or how to make peace with [...]
DIY Tip: Create a Custom 404 Page with Google’s New Tool
Google has launched a new tool in their Webmaster Tools suite that allows website owners to create custom 404 pages. 404 pages are those that don’t exist and therefore return a “not found” error when users try to view them in their web browser.
Facebook ‘Garage’ Goes Corporate, $70k Worth Of Sponsors Wanted
Most Facebook developer events we’ve attended have been a bunch of dudes drinking beer and talking shop. Last summer, our first official day of work at SAI was capped off with a trip to the developer ‘Hackathon’ at Union Square Ventures, where coders ate pizza, sipped and talked about their apps. That was cool.
Google Android App Store: Like iTunes, With One Big Difference (GOOG)
Google has unveiled its long-awaited answer to the iTunes app store for the iPhone: The Android Market, which will sell programs for the upcoming “Gphone” from T-Mobile, and every other handset that runs on Google’s mobile OS.
Comcast Putting Bandwidth Hogs On A Diet In October (CMCSA)
Comcast bandwidth pigs won’t just have to deal with a slower Internet connection — they’ll reportedly have to pay more per month to use the Internet, too.
Firefox Gets More Google Money
Firefox owner Mozilla has extended its lucrative search deal with Google (GOOG) for three more years, through Nov. 2011, chair Mitchell Baker writes. What’s that mean? The Web browser dot-org will continue to make a lot of
President Meg Whitman: Is Ex-eBay CEO a Good Choice As McCain VP?
John McCain has picked his running mate (announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
What’s New with Jaiku?
As we noted this weekend, Jaiku was completely down for scheduled maintenance over the weekend, with very little explanation other than it was a good time to go speak with a loved one.
Six Best Tools to Track Your Time Spent Online
There are a variety of time tracking tools available today. The first type are the ones targeted at businesses and professionals for tracking amount of time spent on a particular project so they can bill their clients accordingly. The second variety are for net junkies with a need to track time spent on a particular [...]
Google Clues Developers in on Android Market
Android Mobile Platform team member Eric Chu wants you to know that its content distribution system – an Apple App Store think-a-like by the name of Android Market – is going to be user-driven. All thanks to “Google’s expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers.”
No, You Cannot Turn Facebook into a (Decent) Movie
In what seems to be the worst idea in the history of television, West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has his sight set on Facebook, claiming he’s interested in making a movie about the popular social networking site. He doesn’t understand Facebook, he says to BBC, but he’s ready to learn, thus creating his own Facebook [...]
Big Ads and Captions to Make YouTube More Like… TV!
So there are two items to do with YouTube YouTube that are making their way around the tech news world. One to do with big billboards that would take up a good portion of the site’s front page real estate – if only briefly upon visitors’ initial arrival; and another to do with captioning, [...]
How to Find Statistics on Social Media
Selling management on the value of investing time and resources into building an online community using social media is a challenge, and you need all of the support you can get. One way to convey the value of corporate social media participation is to leverage published statistics about who’s using social media platforms and how [...]
Twitter: What the Cherp is That?
Do you want to get your business in on Twitter, but you’re not sure where to start? Perhaps you’re in public relations and marketing, but don’t have the resources on staff to really learn all the nuance and detail involved in the community and development concerns with utilizing Twitter to its fullest. If you answered [...]
MySpace Launches New Option to Record Videos via Webcam
Microsoft's Earnings Don't Disappoint
Home Based Business Ideas That Will Inspire You
