This morning Yahoo announced a new mobile application called “onePlace.” The application isn’t yet available but appears to be an elegant mobile bookmarking system that is highly customizable and features an RSS reader, but can accommodate any type of content: news feeds, web sites, videos, images, search queries. A shorthand way to think about it […]
As many of you exhibitors knew, Danny Sullivan sent me on a mission to find the best schwag ever at SMX West because I am a schwag addict. In the end, you all had a lot of great schwag, and it’s super hard to choose the “best” piece. Therefore, I’m going to categorize […]
Think of all the ways that companies use branding to build
awareness of themselves or to promote their social awareness and customer
service values. A few things come to mind such as greeters at the entrance of your my favorite store, go-green awareness issues,
charity drives that “give back” to the community for every purchase
made, TV screens playing […]
In this second part of a three-part series we will continue talking about how to avoid being buried by Digg. Then we will discuss how to create viral applications for Facebook and MySpace and look at the looming commercialization of the art of friending. Finally we will look at the commercialization […]
FORTUNE magazine released the America’s Most Admired Companies of 2008 and guess what, Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn’t surprise me since everyone I know are buying Macs, even your executive editor, Danny.
Google ranked at number […]
Silobreaker is a different news search service. It aims to deliver meaning and relevance, not just aggregate and rank news. This is done by providing relational analysis and explanatory graphics to give you contextual insight into news stories and current events.
Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, […]