Your small business is running smoothly. You’re attracting customers. Word-of-mouth and social media is bringing in sales. Your website is on point. The only problem is, you haven’t a clue how to manage and keep track of the money you’re making. You’re not really sure how much money you’re really raking in because you [...]
Archive for July, 2010
New York, NY. The home of the Knicks. The home of Foursquare. So why are Mikhail Prokhorov, Jay-Z, and Gowalla plastered on the side of a building on 34th & 8th overlooking Madison Squa
re Garden? Mikhail is the majority owner of the NJ Nets with hip-hop mogul Jay-Z as the minority owner. Gowalla, based in [...]
Fast Company has set up a contest, The Influence Project, to find out who the most influential people on the Internet are. You would think this would involve fancy math and algorithms to measure the size of the competitors’ networks, track the reach of their voice across those networks, and figuring out if they can [...]
Today, former AOL Product and Programming Executive, Mike Rich, will join Interactive One as its Chief Product and Operating Officer. Interactive One, the largest online media company serving black Americans, is the digital division of Radio One Inc., the largest African American multimedia company. Rich will drive the direction and strategy for Interactive One’s network [...]
It’s not as if there is a lack of buzz around Lebron James on the web, specifically on Twitter. Just a few days ago, we talked about how Lebron James was trending. This is because Lebron, Chris Bosh, Dwayne Wade, and a few other players are free agents and everyone wants to know where they [...]
TweetUp, the site that helps you find the worlds best tweeters, has announced their acquisition of both Twidroid and Popurls. Twidroid is one of the most popular Twitter clients for the Android platform. Popurls is a news aggregator that grabs the most popular content from sites all around the web and displays it in one [...]
Just a few days ago, an exclusive video of the unreleased Google Voice desktop application appeared online. It’s not the first we have heard of a Google Voice desktop application, but it’s certainly the first time we’ve had a chance to see it in action. Google has worked on this project internally for a [...]
Friday night, Google released a new feature that allows Blogger bloggers to access near real-time statistics on their Blogger blogs. The new Stats feature is similar to the more advanced Google Analytics service, which many Blogger bloggers have already been using. The difference here is that Blogger Stats is integrated into the Blogger service, is [...]
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of faceVsion Technology USA. All opinions are 100% mine. The buzz around FaceTime and the iPhone 4 shows us just how interested the average person is in video chat. It’s gone from something only geeks knew how to figure out, to something grandma and grandpa [ Read More ]
Even though Apple talked about an anti-Google stance on serving ads back in April, it seems they haven’t actually banned anything…yet. It’s not just a ban on Google, but a ban on ad companies collecting usage data from applications, which would make it almost impossible to create or serve targeted ads and compete with Apple’s [...]
Androids Continue to Multiply
Even though the iPhone 4 is taking much of the spotlight since it’s release last month, the Evo 4G has actually held its own against the established Apple device. Even still, it looks like Android devices roll in packs. Shortly after the iPhone 4, we learned about the Droid X from Verizon, [...]
To expand their efforts in travel search, Google has acquired ITA Software. ITA is a key player in the online travel business, providing data to companies like Kayak, Orbitz, Bing, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and a number of other air travel websites. According to Google, almost 60% of airline tickets are purchased online. ITA tried to hold [...]
Lebron James is a free agent and Twitter is buzzing with speculation as to what will happen. The attention this is getting on Twitter has many users wishing it would stop, while others point out that the Lakers are going to three-peat anyway, so his choice is irrelevant. Even Conan chimed in to give his [...]
As of today, July 1st, Finland is guaranteeing every citizen of Finland at least a 1Mbps broadband connection with a promise to bump this up to 100Mbps by 2015. This puts broadband internet on the same level as other legal rights in the country like healthcare and education.
Finland is the first to make this a [...]
Google has just done a complete redesign of the Google News site which should make it much more interesting for users. Rather than a simple static page full of news you may or may not be interested in, Google is now making it possible for you to customize your sources and articles. This should make [...]
