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Category Archives: Trends
Curated computing: jargon (sometimes) is a good thing
Curated Computing: Fancy cynical analyst term. Here is Forrester Research declaring a new era (‘Post-iPad’, no less). A consumer can do anything with a Windows PC or Mac… the iPad operates very differently. [It] works more like a jukebox than … Continue reading
What you need to do to be the next Google/Twitter/Facebook
Yesterday and today The Web has been through two major evolutionary stages, and we are seeing some major activity in the third evolutionary stage. The first was the “early web” – through most of the 90s and until the dot-com … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, Facebook, google, internet, Social, Trends, twitter
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From database of intentions to database of actions
In 2003, John Battelle opined that Google was essentially a “database of intentions“. The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result. … a massive database of desires, needs, … Continue reading
Digital Cameras – Losing Focus? (1 of 2)
At an engagement ceremony I attended this October, every one of the guests was a photographer, clicking away at this, that or the other all the time. Not only have you seen this; over the past couple of years you’ve … Continue reading
Social Networks – The New Bulletin Boards?
In my previous post, I looked at how a social network “picks up” an application and “spreads” it to reach the audience that would be interested in using it. And I said that was because social networks make it easy … Continue reading
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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!
Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment … Continue reading
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry
It means everything. It means a massive opportunity and a massive threat. It means a period of flux in the SEO space for the next six months. Why? Until today, everything – everything – in the SEO industry was to … Continue reading
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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 1: Industry Disruption
About a week ago, Google took the lid off a project that had been brewing for several months. The company calls it Universal Search. In a nutshell, it “will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search … Continue reading
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Flash Web Applications and componentization
There was a time when Google released its Desktop Search application (since renamed Google Desktop), and the Google Talk client more or less together. Back then, I wondered why Google was going down the path of Windows desktop applications – … Continue reading
Lookin' for trends!
One of the more interesting applications of Google Trends is to compare the search volumes of two or more search terms over the past several months (or years). So we were winding down work yesterday at Convonix, and fooling around … Continue reading