NIN: The New Model Of Giving It All Away

While the RIAA and the rest of the music industry clamor for ways to restrict consumers and how they can use the content they buy, Trent Reznor and his band, Nine Inch Nails, are pioneering some alternative methods for distributing content to their fans and promoting the band — giving it away for free! (more…)

Chrome Moving On Up

Google’s Chrome browser has now surpassed Apple’s Safari Browser for the third spot in the browser war.  According to the latest market share stats, Google’s Chrome Browser now makes up 4.63% of the browser market.  This is pretty impressive for a fairly new browser that does not even have stable versions released for Mac OSX or Linux operating systems.  Does Chrome have further to rise, or is it destined to stay tight in its number 3 spot? (more…)

Google and AdMob vs Apple and Quattro Wireless

According to All Things Digital, Apple is set to buy Quattro Wireless, another mobile ad platform similar to AdMob. This deal seems very logical since Apple tried to acquire AdMob but Google paid more, at $750 million. Instead Apple went to the second largest mobile ad network, Quattro, with a $275 million proposal.

Was it a good deal for Quattro or for Apple? (more…)

Super Social Bar

I stumbled across Meebo Bar when I was setting up this blog. The idea of embedding a social bar or toolbar that encourages sharing seemed neat to me. A few days afterwards, I found out about Wibiya, Gigya, and Ow.ly “social bars”. So, the question is which one to use? How do I decide? Can I use two or more social bars? (more…)

3 ways to Improve Google’s Real Time Results

If you haven’t seen Google’s real-time search results before, here is what it looks like.

On my first attempt to try LiveFyre, which I really like by the way, Robert Scoble and others shared a lot of great ideas for improving Google’s real time results. In this post, I’ll share with you some of these ideas and some more.

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