Archive for March, 2010
YouTube Makeover
YouTube, the internet’s largest video-sharing site, will get a major redesign today. According YouTube’s blog posts on the subject, the makeover will better feature the videos over other page content, and integrate a new playlist, queue system, and comments and video responses into a feed. Among the other changes to the design, YouTube will be [...]
Mobile Broadband’s Rapid Rise
Having broadband access everywhere is changing the way we live and interact, but it may also change mobile provider business models. From the iPhone to Android and Blackberry, smartphones are almost everywhere these days, and experiencing an exponential rise in popularity. According to a recent study by UK firm Coda Research Consultancy, the U.S. mobile [...]
Healthcare Reform – Silicon Valley Style
Healthcare has been a hot topic in the United States for the past few months. Legislative wrangling aside, the next revolution in healthcare could come from Silicon Valley. Mobile apps, internet technologies, and cloud-based software exists for everything from instant news feeds and self-publishing to location-awareness and social causes. Sharing these experiences via social media [...]
YouTube Display Ads Get Google Simple
Google’s new Display Ad Builder templates in AdWords promises to make display ads as easy to make as banner ads, and could prompt a flood of YouTube-based advertising. Adobe Flash overlay ads on YouTube videos aren’t new, but were previously limited to about one in seven videos on the YouTube network, a total of about [...]
Facebook Overtakes Google and Yahoo!
Facebook topped Google to become the most visited U.S. Web site according to Experian Hitwise to take the No. 1 spot for the week ending March 13. This comes on the heels of traffic measurements from Compete.com indicating that Facebook overtook Yahoo! as the second-most visited site on the web in the U.S. in December [...]
Mobile Check-ins For Charity
As mobile social networks and check-ins gain traction, companies like Foursquare, BriteKite, Loopt, Gowalla and Google should keep an eye on CauseWorld. CauseWorld is a mobile application that allows users to check-in to a partner location and earn “karma points.” While Foursquare and Gowalla have slowly rolled out partnerships with Bravo TV, Zagat Guides, and [...]
Lessons Learned: Being Your Own Boss
For several years, I was working as a sole proprietor doing IT for several businesses in the LA area. The clients ranged in industries and size, from 5-person offices in PR to 500-person offices in entertainment. I wanted to share some of the lessons I learned from managing that enterprise. Although I no longer do [...]
Ebooks and innovation – the race is on!
The Apple iPad was a rather disappointing announcement for me. While we have long looked to Apple to give us new computing paradigms and ways of interacting with technology, the iPad felt uninspired, a rehash of what we’d seen. In addition, it felt to me like another lock-in, a way of trying to make the iTunes Store [...]
thinking votes
“Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” “That’s not enough — I need a majority.”
