The Internet is a big place; It can be a scary place too. That said, there is a lot of good that takes place on the Internet. Blogs can be great tools, site like MyFamily.com and Geni bring families and people together. Social media sites also bridge gaps and dissolve physical distances and borders, sometimes.
So, [...]
The Web is great because you can find all kinds of crazy stuff, and I mean crazy! I came across an odd combination today, some guy decided to decorate his wife’s AR-15 (that’s a little weird for me to begin with) in very, well let’s just say your four-year-old daughter might want one for Christmas [...]
Okay, I think it is good to talk about this — blogging. With recent accusations that the move to user-generated content on the Web is resulting in a less fulfilling experience, I think it only appropriate to give some pointers to the blogosphere and those looking to get into it. Blogging can fill a real [...]
According to the Pew Institute’s Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of all American adults (47 percent) have broadband Internet connections in their homes. On a larger scale, 70 percent of all users of Internet in the home have a high-speed Internet connection.
Also of note in the report, 40 percent of African [...]
Lists are a big part of life. Whether it’s a to-do list, a checklist or a honey-do list, sometimes that’s how we keep straight what we need to get done — or what our significant other wants us to get done.
A while back I wrote about Meosphere, a Utah-based social networking site that uses lists [...]
Hitwise recently released its report of the most searched for brands on the Internet. The report is based upon search terms used across the Internet, excluding porn search terms. The report reflects some interesting data about our Internet use as a worldwide community.
It confirms that the things we search for most are actually on the [...]
I came across this video this morning (blog post here), I think it does a great job of illustrating — not just defining — the concept known as Web 2.0. Why is this important? Good question, if companies, organizations, marketers and communicators don’t figure out Web 2.0 and then find a way to implement it [...]
Connect magazine online is reporting today that Utah entrepreneur Eric Eliason has launched his new venture into the social networking realm, Meosphere.
According to Eliason, Meosphere relies on users’ life experiences through various (read: eventually thousands) of lists that can be commented on and shared. Eliason says, “Everyone loves a list,” how true that is. Eliason [...]
Okay, I’m not an advertiser, but with the advent of Web 2.0, the truth is that we can all be advertisers, advocates or spokespeople for anything. So what makes a good commercial? Well, for me it is something that is incongruent, something funny, something that breaks the mold, something that makes me think or is [...]
Technology and competition drive change. In today’s business environment, you could truly say that the only thing constant is change. For businesses, change and innovation can be a two-edged sword, as much as a company pushes for change, it can hurt them in the end. Case-in-point, Google, Yahoo and AOL were all once on top [...]
