March 1st is next week, when Google combines privacy policies together, supporting a ‘better’ user experience. The notion of privacy has been a recent, ongoing conversation, first discussed in detail by the online marketing world, then slowly making its way around the nation’s households, even the White House. The New York Times reports of a …
With the passing of International star Whitney Houston there has been tremendous reaction by her many loyal fans and supporters. As most of the reaction comes from people that have supported her through the years, companies and webmasters have even taken-part of the reflection. BET.com, the leading global entertainment Media Company targeting the AA consumer, launched …
Have you seen the numbers lately? Brands and marketers like to leverage numbers to create a (desired) reception based on reader perception. Obviously, bigger numbers reflect more popularity and added reason for investors to celebrate. The New York Times issued a recent article on Facebook, calling attention to a subjective view of numbers. For instance, …
Twitter announced changes in its privacy policies, which immediately raised concerns for freedom activists in addition to writers and reporters in other lands, who feel their ability to share stories, some that may be seen as ‘controversial’ by respective governments and authority figures, will be limited. The reaction comes at a sensitive time for most …
At the f8 conference in September, Facebook announced the addition of Timeline and Open Graph. These new tools let users tell a more detailed story of their life through a newly designed profile page. Earlier this week, Facebook launched Facebook Actions, an enhancement adding additional call-to-action tabs beyond the standard “like”. As this may at first …
Censorship is not a new topic; it has been around in many forms for a long, long time and it looks like it is not going anywhere any time soon. Now it seems more than ever before in the (relatively) short history of the internet has there been so much concern for censorship. With Google …
We have a running joke in our offices about clip art and stock photo. One in particular image continues to populate sites all across the Internet so much that each time she pops up on a site Instant Messages with links to her start flying internally. Kind of a running spoof of the “There’s that …
As if the brand needed more exposure (aside from its 800-million-plus users), this coming season, we’ll hear a lot of on and offline chirping regarding Facebook, the leading social media site (actually, an online destination sought more often than Google). This winter, a number of leading banks will vie to get friendly with Facebook, “besties” …
Go Daddy, the leading domain registrar, changed its position regarding SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) late Friday in an apparent attempt at saving face against the growing backlash of boycotters transferring domains to other registrars. Go Daddy’s official release comes on news of Go Daddy already losing 70,000 names as reported by CNET, but is …
Google announced via Twitter that Panda Updates have ceased for 2011 and will resume after the New Year. Perhaps this is an early Holiday gift to webmasters that need to cultivate content and links on their existing webpages. The last update came in November and all have been considered “minor” updates, each time affecting less …
