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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication . One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
TechCrunch says that Google just bought Aardvark for $50 million. Everyone wants to know where to eat, where to go on vacation… These are Google questions and Yelp questions! But for specific, tough-to-Google questions like my lint-brushing sign language, Aardvark is uniquely useful. Why Google bought What the hell is Aardvark (vark.com) ?
It’s like a Yahoo Questions that works.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
I’ve written about Google’s Data Liberation Front before … They are the nice people dedicated to making sure its as easy to get your data out of the cloud as it is to get it in .
A beefed up export feature for Google Docs now allows you to convert, zip and download multiple files in a couple simple steps. You can zip up to 500MB of files (more than almost Today they announced a new feature worth acknowledging. Just one more reason Google Apps is a great MS Office substitute for most people and organizations…
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Monday, August 24, 2009
When Google opened up its mapping API it made Maponics’s Flash-based idea less appealing.
- After Google came out with its product, Maponics shut down its Flash-based product. The company works with Google, Trulia, infoUSA, Yellow Book USA, CitySearch, and other big online brands.
- The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Search engine giant Google said Thursday that it is exiting from the radio advertising business, putting an end into the firm's attempt to leverage its online advertising success into other media. Google--which pulled the plug on its newspaper advertising efforts on January 20th--said the move came because the radio advertising efforts did not have "the impact we hoped for." Google entered the radio advertising market with the buy of Newport Beach-based dMarc Broadcasting in January of 2006. That deal--which was worth $102M in cash plus up to $1.1
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
I just saw a Forbes article talking about Google Hell - getting placed in the secondary index. It doesn't prevent Google Hell, but it certainly reduces the chance I've worked with several businesses that were essentially based on driving traffic via search engine optimization (SEO). There are a wide variety of techniques that can be used, but getting high rankings is not easy and highly volatile.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. Not sure I buy this approach from Googl It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Google home page : People who don’t get how the search bar works.
Tags: Articles chatroulette facebook google snark sterotypes twitter wordpres Pingdom told you who uses what social site . AdAge told you who uses what search engine . But what about the rest of the web?
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics
The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste Below is a highlight video of the evening. To To view the entire talk click here .
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Google's new Ad Manager technology will soon enable premium ad banners to be sold directly to advertisers by publishers and when the clicks are used up on the premium ads it will revert automatically to use Google Adsense. Clicks are usually sold via banners and text ads at a 2x to 4x premium cutting out Google. This is a brilliant move and will further accelerate the gap between premium content and generic publishers who don't provide any unique content value. I
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