Jobs: “Don’t be Evil Mantra is Bullshit”
I think this is the year the worm turns. This is the year that both FSJ and the real SJ told the world that: The fact of the mater is, Google is full of shit.
Apple vs. Amazon: The Great Ebook War Has Already Begun
We’re not going to see the iPad hit stores for another two months, but it is already changing the ebook game and forcing publishers and consumers to pick sides.Last night, several blogs including Venturebeat and NYT’s Bits Blog noticed s…
Privacy: Managing the New Currency of the Social Web
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.The privacy policy might…
Whiteboard Friday – Optimizing Topic Pages
Posted by great scott!This week we’re pleased to welcome Marshall Simmonds, CEO of Define Search Strategies and Chief Strategist for the New York Times, to Whiteboard Studios. Whether or not to use topic pages–and how to use them effectively–is a …
5 Things The iPhone Could Learn From The iPad
As is to be expected of any device that the masses get excited about prior to it actually existing, the iPad has torn the Internet in two. Some love it, seeing it as the first iteration of an eventually world-changing device; others just don’t see a…
In the Wake of iPad, Amazon Reminds Us the Kindle Is Far From Dead
The tech world might be abuzz about how the iPad may or may not kill Kindle, but Amazon would like to take this opportunity to remind you how pervasive its e-reader has become.Specifically, the company is touting a number of Kindle-related stats in …
How Search Engines Find Your Content
Discovery; where SEO starts… Long before you start to worry about actually ranking content, you need to get it into the index. And of course, to do that, your content needs to be found. In the world of information retrieval this is, appropriate…
7 Do’s & Don’ts For Working With A Technical SEO During A Redesign
In the past few months, I’ve been the technical SEO consultant to 6 companies who have been in the process of redesigning their websites. The companies range in size from a one-person show to a world-reknowned Boston hospital, and everything in be…
Nokia’s Ovi Store Now Officially Serves More Than 1 Million Downloads A Day
Buried in Nokia’s earnings release from this morning (PDF) is an interesting revelation about the Ovi Store, the centralized application shop for programs fit for Nokia devices that the Finnish giant debuted – not so stylishly – in May 2009.The comp…
How To Improve .EDU Link Requests Using Academic Metaphors
As a web marketer who is requesting high-quality links from the gatekeepers of academic sites, understanding the lingo and professional culture of the academic world can greatly improve your success rate. Academic environments can be a bit more form…