I’ve been playing with the new friendfeed beta for a few days now and I thought it might be useful to share some of what I’ve learned. One of the best new features are the search filters. These filters allow you to effectively create channels on any topic of interest. Below is a walk through [...]
This is an article I wrote back in 2007 and didn’t publish at the time. I feel its more relevant today than ever.
11/13/2007
Having spent the best part of my weekend moving my music, photos and video from my old PC to my new mac, I came to the conclusion that my generation (I’m 36) is [...]
Yesterday techcrunch broke some news which I found interesting, in respect of twitters long term business strategy. Apparently twitter began issuing warning notices to members who are utilising the autofollow function within their account settings. (Link)
The reasoning it appears has to to with the usability of their system as a whole. They go on to [...]
Q4 ‘08 Revenues Total $6.1 Billion; Growth Continues Despite Difficult Economy
NEW YORK, NY (March 30, 2009) – Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. remain strong, topping $23 billion, according to the 2008 Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). Despite a difficult U.S. economy, interactive advertising’s [...]
Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More and better search refinements
Starting today, we’re deploying a new [...]
I found this excellent introductory video today, which explains in simple terms, what SaaS (software as a service) can do for your business. (Source) Its from back in 2007, but covers the main points in an easy to digest (if hurried) way.
One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we’ve been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with, sharing with note and the sharing bookmarklet. But [...]
The new google voice service appears to have some very interesting features. Anyone who thinks the iPhones visual voicemail is useful will love this “Listen in” option.
We’ve just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.
The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail [...]
February 5th, 2009. The domain name Toys.com was sold for 1.25 million dollar to Faculty lounge in an auction after The Parent Company filed for bankruptcy.
22 days later this same domain name was sold again, but this time for the astonishing amount of 5.1 million dollars. Toys’RUs is the new owner. They outbidded National A-1 [...]
