Google’s Big Idea: Google launched their brand new Social Network Google+ a couple of weeks back. I was lucky enough to get an early invite on the very first day it launched. I immediately signed in with my Google (gmail) account. As I started reading about Circles my heart skipped a beat and I …
A few years back I stumbled across a wonderful little book called Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin. The book introduced me to Seth Godin and his unique insights into the art and science of marketing and of spreading ideas. That in turn lead me to reading his ebook “Unleashing the Idea Virus” …
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Today everyone knows that to be found online you have to be in the top ten search results in Google – the venerable first page – for any search terms related to your product or service. Why? A very small fraction of users go past the first page of Google’s search results. So if you …
MindRank: Are You in the Top Ten Results in the Minds of Your Customers? Read More »
There is an aticle today on TechCrunch that asks the 35 billion-dollar question : “Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?” The statistics about Facebook’s dominance are staggering indeed : 500 Million users, $35 billion in valuation, $836 million in funding, accounting for nearly 25% of web traffic and growing virally at 5% a month. It …
“Everything old is new again”, is a popular expression that usually applies to trends and fashion. Surprisingly, it can also be an apt way to describe many current trends in computing. In particular, the emergence of cloud computing, is a classic example of how an old idea that failed and died before, can be reborn …
From The Network Computer to Cloud Computing – The Long and Winding Road Read More »
Google’s exponential growth and emergence as a technology juggernaut has been driven by one simple but incredibly successful business model : paid search or pay per click (PPC) advertising. Google appears invincible today because it dominates one of the largest and most lucrative web businesses – Online advertising via paid search. Google’s version of …
The Evolution of Paid Search and Why Google Won & Yahoo/Microsoft Lost Read More »
The Apple iPad vs the Amazon Kindle debate rages on in the media and the blogosphere – with no end in sight. The iPad fans proclaim that the Kindle is dead : it is no match for the rich, interactive, tactile interface of the iPad – a superior, almost magical experience some call it. …
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After reviewing articles from many sources in the media, I have compiled a list of certain facts and figures regarding the recent cyber attacks from China and the subsequent stunning announcement from Google. Some of these are surprisingly under-reported in the media so you may or may not know them. Here they are …
15 Facts You May Not Know About the Google China Incident Read More »
Google’s bombshell announcement yesterday about its “new approach” to China is still reverberating across the media and the blogosphere. Everyone is trying to put this in perspective, assessing its impact and figuring out Google’s true motivations and rationale for this drastic action. However, most blogs and analysis focused on two important aspects of …
In what will surely be remembered as a pivotal and defining moment in Internet history, Google today took a brave stand against China which has so far dictated how Google conducts business in that country. In a post on their blog titled “A New Approach To China”, Google stated that it had detected an unprecedented …
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