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Google Glass will make dating easier. Or maybe not.

Google Glass will make dating easier. Or maybe not.

The world of dating is going to get easier – and more complicated – thanks to Google glass. It’s already so easy to find out about various topics or to learn about a person in particular just by using our smartphones, but when Google Glass arrives, it will make it easier to go covert with the date-impressing research. Okay, so it won’t. So the video below is satirical and you can’t really get away with being on a date in the middle of a political discussion while watching football. It doesn’t matter. The funny nature of this video should be taken at face value but the real implications of what Google Glass,…

In search, having the right website is more important than (almost) ever

In search, having the right website is more important than (almost) ever

Back in the days when Yahoo was fighting against Alta Vista, when Bing was still called Microsoft Live, and when Google was trying to get the big Y to buy them, onsite content and meta tags were search. It was a day of keyword stuff, of hidden text, and of content scraping that helped porn sites rank for the term “toys” while male enhancement drugs could be found on searches for “big fun”. Google emerged as the leader in part because of their pure design, but also because they started looking offsite for signals about search rankings. The days before Google’s innovation were the peak of onsite SEO. Google…

Google+ adds more features to profiles, makes cover photos HUGE

Google+ adds more features to profiles, makes cover photos HUGE

Google hasn’t forgotten about its Google+ ambitions after all. It also appears they might have read my article from last month as they integrated a couple of the changes I recommended. Oh, who am I kidding. Google doesn’t read my writing! It started last week when they made the push for Google sign-in capabilities through the API (suggestion #1 in last month’s article). Today, they made three more changes: Public Google+ reviews are linked from the profile page. The image above was taken from such as review list. Your story, places, and links are now visible on your About tab. The cover photo behind…

Pinterest best practices for business

Pinterest best practices for business

Pinterest has grown tremendously. In December of 2011 it had 7 million users. Just a year later, there are over 20 million monthly active users. It is the third most popular social network following Facebook and Twitter. Even more interesting, it refers more traffic than Google +, LinkedIn, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.  Get the most out of your Pinterest today!   Is your Pinterest optimized? Use top Search Engine Optimization (SEO) keywords in your “About” section. Search engines index this page. You have 200 characters to communicate who you are and what you can do for your audience….

What bomb will Google drop this year at SXSW?

What bomb will Google drop this year at SXSW?

Last year, SXSW was relatively laid back. We had a couple of executives there, but for the most part it was our search and social team that was in attendance, catching tidbits of information here or there but really we were there to meet with some people outside of our core business in the automotive industry. Then, something happened. Matt Cutts from Google and Duane Forrester of Bing dropped a bombshell on the audience. They both declared that quality was moving up in he search algorithms, that quantity was going to be a bad thing, and that spammers would be roughed up in the coming weeks. The result…

Will Apple stock fall below $400?

Will Apple stock fall below $400?

If you would have asked any stock analyst in the world back in September when Apple shares were sitting at $705 if shares had a chance of falling below $400 within six months, they would have admonished you for being a moron. It wasn’t going to happen. It couldn’t. Now that we’re five months out from the peak of Apple’s value, it seems that $400 isn’t such an impossible number after all. The stock closed yesterday at $430.47, down $10.93 from the day before to reach its lowest point since the slide started last September. It seems that Apple may have fallen victim to their own hype machine in many ways….

Visualizing the storage and energy use of the whole internet

Visualizing the storage and energy use of the whole internet

Have you ever wondered about where the internet is? Yes, we know that it’s everywhere, that websites sit on servers which transmit their data through a series of interpretation protocols that eventually puts Amazon on our iPad screen. That part is easy to grasp. The sheer size of the servers necessary to run the internet combined with the energy required to sustain the internet – now we’re getting into some pretty massive visualizations. That’s the key to the infographic below by Misdegree. Google, for example, has somewhere between 900 thousand to 1.8 million servers, depending on which estimate…

Who

Who's going to SXSW?

It was once a quaint music festival. Today, it’s arguably the most important tech, music, and film gathering in existence. It’s a big party. It’s a place where movers and shakers move and shake. It’s SXSW and it’s going to be huge once again. If you’re going to SXSWi, we want to hear from you. Sure, the music and film parts are important, too, but it’s the interactive portion of SXSW that truly interests us. This is where the likes of Google and Facebook engage with their users. It’s the venue where politicians can share a stage with startup giants. Something big has been coming out of SXSW every year for…

Yahoo leaves

Yahoo leaves 'digital media' image to promote itself as a "technology company'

A rose by any other name… Digital media. It didn’t really mean much outside of offering content to people for consumption. Technically speaking, that’s what Yahoo has always done outside of search and email. It’s for this reason that the popular web portal’s move to branding itself as a “technology company” marks the second strange move they made in less than two weeks. The first, shifting away from allowing people to work from home, will continue to receive more attention because of its impact on employees, but the branding and image shift is actually a more important (and illogical) move….

You should have sold Groupon when you had the chance, Andrew Mason

You should have sold Groupon when you had the chance, Andrew Mason

It’s easy for bloggers to take shots at people who are much more successful than the blogger ever will be whenever the subject of their wrath makes mistakes that bite them later. This is one of those cases. Andrew Mason should have sold Groupon to Google when they offered $6 billion for the daily deals community. Today, they relieved him of his responsibilities as CEO of the company that he’s been building for nearly five years. He’s taking it as well as one would expect from a clever man who just got ousted from his own company: After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided…

Facebook

Facebook's corrected insights may be a red herring for improved exposure for pages

When Facebook announced last week that Insights, their page-level analytics platform, had been reporting the wrong numbers for several months, most took it as a growing pain of a company growing into its own. It was a minor negative, something that caused a handful of “Facebook advertising has a long way to go” blog posts but one that will be forgotten tomorrow (if it hasn’t been forgotten already). Put on your conspiracy theory hats, kids, as I tell you what may be really happening here. Since Monday, the numbers have gone up as expected. In some cases, they’ve gone way up. Some of the pages that we…

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer's first big mistake at Yahoo is a ludicrous one for a tech company

There were many things broken at Yahoo when Marissa Mayer first took over as CEO. She has moved the company forward, consolidated vision, and set the company on a better course than its seen in years. We’ve been very positive about her decisions to date. The most recent one is idiotic. It’s the type of move that offers little potential benefit while risking a potential backwards step in the progress that has been made so far. The idea of “Physically Together” is this: an office environment is the best place for every single employee at Yahoo. As of June, all of the hundreds of remote employees will be…

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