As the United States debates government use of consumer metadata, a recent Boston Globe post by Farah Stockman illuminates how data can be used to make predictions, citing a joke that the FBI investigates pizza places because "People in hiding...
No longer does being a journalist only mean attending at minimum a four-year university and working your way up the chain in a traditional print publication house, such as The New York Times or The Boston Globe.
Hollywood is a great example of taking a core concept and coming up with fresh and interesting versions; take a look at this funny yet insightful infographic put together by Patrick Garvin for the Boston Globe:
But not too long after the blasts in Boston, there was a blast of a different sort on Facebook from social media thought leader Peter Shankman in reference to a tweet from David Armano, managing director of Edelman Digital.
BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local Conference in Boston this week spotlighted Google's Enhanced Campaigns among many themes. Its impact on mobile and local search was the focal point – following my last column, and leading up to SES New York where it...
Taylor Aldredge, in charge of digital and social media for Boston-based Grasshopper, a provider of virtual phone systems, believes hashtags will help bridge the gap for Facebook users with more people outside of their network, which will change...
A few years back, the swine flu was the newsworthy virus that everyone was fearful of contracting; but it seems to have been taken over by the standard "flu" this year, and even the city of Boston was under a state of emergency in January due to...
Proulx is a Senior Vice President and the Director of Social Media at Hill Holliday, a renowned advertising agency based in Boston, where he leads a team with a focus on cross-channel integration, emerging and social media.
Didit co-founder Kevin Lee has become CEO of both Didit, out of Mineola, New York and the Boston-area Inceptor. Didit has acquired SEO, social and comparison shopping engine management company Inceptor from SuperMedia (formerly Verizon Information...
It should be noted, though, that in addition to selling About.com, the New York Times also recently sold its shares in the Fenway Sports Group, who are the owners of the Liverpool soccer club and the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
At the least, you should see some "hotels in boston" type results, or other natural variants mixed in to this profile. On top of that, Google began sending unnatural links messages to web publishers via Webmaster Tools earlier this year.
Uber can get you there (if you’re in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C. It often takes being able to snap a photo or write a post sitting on the bus or at 35,000 feet (thanks, GoGo Inflight).
Dominic” was actually named after a pizza place in Boston that was frequented by PubCon attendees. However, like Boston, Tabke called it Florida because there was an upcoming WMW conference in Orlando.
The city with the most searches was Dublin, Ireland, followed by Boston, Mass. Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this day everybody becomes Irish. Even the search engines are Irish today. To celebrate the holiday, Google has "gone green" by posting a St.
We began developing a mathematical way to determine if others think your site has value," Silverstein said at SES Boston in 2002. Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the...
Jarboe, who is a student at Boston University School of Law, has applied to become a summer intern at Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Topics will focus on search, social, and analytics and the sessions will feature the top experts in...
Sports & Social Media session - on Tuesday November 15th - Featuring experts from Fox Sports, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants and the Boston Celtics this session will look at how major sports teams in the U.S.are using social media to...
Scott Smigler, President of Exclusive Concepts and co-chair of SEMPO Boston Working Group said: If a user is signed into a Google account, any search performed will now be done on a secure socket layer (SSL) and will no longer pass the search term...
Google Offers is now available in Portland, New York City, the Bay Area, Austin, Boston, Washington, D.C. Aided by higher revenue per deal and increased voucher sales, Google has already surpassed its August revenue and could double it by the end...
Last week, Offers expanded to Austin, Boston, Washington, D.C. As industry-leading Groupon continues to pick up steam, Google Offers, the company’s attempt to enter the daily deals scene, is already seeing a decline in revenues.
