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Monthly Archives: October 2008

10.27.08 / G1 vs iPhone

AT&T is to Apple’s iPhone as T-Mobile is to Google’s G1.  We have all heard about the iPhone by now and know that if you want it you have must have AT&T as your wireless service provider.  This was a … Read more »

10.24.08 / Obama Campaign Hits Xbox 360

Proving once again his campaign is tapped into today’s volksgeist, the Obama 2008 campaign has confirmed that they indeed advertising on the Xbox 360 racing game “Burnout Paradise”. Gigaom confirmed the rumors were true via Holly Rockwood, director of corporate … Read more »

10.24.08 / Girls Play Too

The words ‘video games’ and ‘girls’ typically don’t end up in the same sentence.  In most cases we think of the target market for video games to be males (for sure) and typically teenagers – sometimes older males who have … Read more »

10.23.08 / Tough Times Ahead for Ad-Supported Web Businesses, Say Forecasters

According to Ad Age, due to the current financial crisis, raising money for an ad-supported web business is going to be tough for anyone who can’t demonstrate a clear, relatively quick path to profitability.  On a growth pace of 20% … Read more »

10.23.08 / As YouTube Search Traffic Earns the Silver, Will Video Search Ads Bring Home the Gold?

Hoping to wring every last possible dollar out of YouTube, Google’s immensely popular video sharing site, the company has introduced video search ads to the site.  The move comes as search traffic on YouTube vaulted over Yahoo to earn the … Read more »

10.22.08 / Using Personas and Social Networking for Team Training

One of the more useful aspects of a social network is its ability to transmit a common body of knowledge to its participants smoothly and evenly.  Just as a rising tide benefits all ships, a robust exchange of information in … Read more »

10.22.08 / Paper Stronger Than Steel

A nanotechnology that may change the way planes and cars are designed was discovered inadvertently when scientist Harry Kroto joined researchers at Rice in efforts to create the same conditions that exist on a star, reports Yahoo.  The motivation behind … Read more »

10.21.08 / Web Analytics Aren't Just for Apps

Given its digital nature, and the technology used to broadcast and receive data, the web is inherently measurable.  On the web there is no passive audience; everyone leaves some sort of footprint here or there.  And savvy business professionals know … Read more »

10.21.08 / Cell Phone Rash?

London doctors report an unknown rash they are seeing on people’s ears and cheeks as “mobile phone dermatitis”.  Doctors are unsure of any other explanation of the rash they are seeing on ears and cheeks, for those that talk on … Read more »

10.20.08 / Professional-Quality Video is Now Affordable for the Masses

Aside from social networking, one of the core components to the whole Web 2.0 paradigm is video content.  Online users, remember, are a fickle bunch:  they’re not going to suffer through reams and reams of online text just so you … Read more »