Every week the Doctor and his companions would arrive on a new world or at some point in history on this planet, unaware of the dangers they faced until they encountered them. Doctor Who" was a program about a strange, crotchety old man and his...
Google now sprinkles Google+ results into general search results, in an initiative they’ve dubbed “Google Plus Your World. Webmasters and SEO experts have been arguing heatedly about why Google is doing this (most point to potential revenue...
This session will use real world examples to help you understand and master the entire video process from what to create, how to optimize, how to market it with search and social media and how to measure the real business impact.
As noted by Computer World, however, there are some alternate stats that put Chrome at a much lower position. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Security (MFES) have had a strange glitch: they both deleted Google...
As one Google+ user commented last time: “what is point of people at google to invite the world to hang out when only a few people can get in. This is strange considering millions visit Google every day but Google Hangouts are limited to 10 people...
This makes sense given the resistance virtual world users have toward combining their online life with that in their meatspace existence. Again, this is doable in Firestorm (I don't know if other TPVs picked it up), but not the official viewer...
Two Microsoft reps laughed off the Google post, telling the world that Microsoft had actually tried to initiate a joint bid with Google for the Nortel patents. Google themselves have stated that patents interfere with innovation, and that their own...
Last week, during the peak of the Plusgate fracas, Rod Humble (CEO of Linden Lab) tweeted to the world "But I have no intention of trying to change googles or FB's mind. For those that just got lost, there is a base function within Second Life for...
In the world of health, both Google and Healthline have embarked on this mission. You develop a strange pain or symptom and, eager to discover what it is, you jump on the Internet to get some answers.
This week has generated a lot of questions about the responsibility of the provider of a virtual world commerce platform (in this case that would be Linden Lab) in regards to security and protection from fraud and IP theft, as well as other types...
Continuing its tradition of making the world smile with faux products and service hoaxes, Google has a barrage of novelty in store for April Fools 2011. Google Maps Real World Sightings Google Maps and Earth is now tracking Real-World Sightings.
Freelancers are a growing trend in the online marketing world -- even big clients are going for the more personal approach. Unfortunately for Overstock, Webmaster World began examining why they were seeing such great rankings for numerous common...
Recently Rosa Parks was honored over World Aids Day, much to the chagrin of some charities. Because the habitat of the haggis in exclusively mountainous, and because it is always found on the sides of Scottish mountains, it has evolved a rather...
Facebook is arguably the most successful example in the world, but there are many more social networks having independent information "bases" than there are search engines. Google is, without doubt, today's most successful search empire -- but...
More complex than that, what's problematic about in-world search is not the same as the issues going on with marketplace search. In-world search is far more complex. In-world locations were largely ranked on the basis of traffic.
Your name becomes tied to reputation in a way it might not in the real world, with a less unique name -- after all if there are many "Jessica Andersons" in the world, some are likely to be great people and some are likely to be not so great.
There's been a a rapid-fire pulse of things/announcements/projects that have been pushed through to the grid (the term for the live, active SL world) which seem from the outside to be devoid of a whole lot of forethought, consideration of...
Explore the world with Street View, now on all seven continents - Official Google Blog Google Maps and the Payday Loan Industry - Strange Bedfellows? This transition period is designed to provide time for Bing to "validate consistency, and provide...
The past 10 years have seen the beginning of a revolution in the world of advertising. The question is whether iAds will be able to sustain such a strange market penetration strategy for the long term.
If this really happens then it might well revolutionize the search marketing world - and push Google to innovate too in that area. My driving test query was on "World Cup".as it is slated to kick off tomorrow and related real-time content should...