War is the realm of uncertainty. Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker, widely acknowledged as the most important of the classical strategic thinkers, wrote this saying in his seminal book "On War".
It brings to mind a slogan from World War II: "Loose lips sink ships". Not long after Google+ was launched, I came to the conclusion that Google didn't build it as just another entry into the social arena.
Google may have decided that it’s an acceptable cost of their war on paid links, but it doesn’t have to be in yours. With links making the World Wide Web go round, most people are neck deep in the link acquisition game, and over the years, it’s...
Google may have a war on links but it is certainly not a war on relationships. He then runs the new product on as much as it needs to be profitable (This is not too dissimilar to what Jim Boykin is doing with Webmaster World and Threadwatch which...
Arpanet, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was itself the world's first operational packet-switched network, and a product of the Cold War era. Afterwards, the internet's growth into a global phenomenon was kick-started by the...
Obama were those of “chris Christie for president”, “cost of Iraq war”, “brock obama” (of course his campaign bid on the misspelling), and even “el presidente”. Looking at historical data for MTV for July, mtv.com was bidding on the keyword “mtv...
War is always news of course and the spring of 2011 was full of news reports of war. However, war is bigger news than celebrity (usually. Rolling Stone is a site that is mainly concerned with celebrity, yet a post on war gets much more attention in...
They’re the vitamins, nutrients, cardio, weightlifting and supplements that brands need to stay healthy, vital, and in shape.marks the year fit brands of all sizes can win the war against the competition and the race to gain or maintain a customer...
It's war out there! Whilst there were no "out-of-this world-never-thought-about-that" tips for the seasoned marketer, there were at least 6 things upon first reading that made me think "if I were a retailer I definitely would want to make sure I...
Search Engines Are Winning the War on Content Farms [STUDY] of Organic Search Clicks Go to First Link [Study] Google is the primary way teenagers conduct research in today’s digital world, according to new Pew research.
The Revolution Will Be Streamed -- Operation Payback: Protest or War? Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search...
It’s a war on spam. This is akin to blowing up the sidewalk outside your competitors real world brick and mortar, but others see it as all part of the search game. And does Google really hate SEOs? I know all these questions have been addressed in...
Murdoch went to war with the search giant over how and when it peers into his content, going so far as to call it "a parasite" that "steals" his content. Google was unimpressed by this, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested that old media could not...
Perhaps not a totally original idea as Professor Vannevar Bush had a similar thought back in 1945 when he argued in the Atlantic Monthly that “as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making...
PRWeb Wins SEO War in Press Release Distribution Services Tom Pick noted that PRWeb ranked high in the SEO world from noted industry experts including Lee Odden, author of Optimize. Tools like PitchEngine emulate that vision by offering a pop-up...
We ended a war that was played out through social media on a regular basis for the first time too. In the four years since the Beijing Olympics a lot has happened in the world of social media. This month marks the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics...
Turing, alongside chess grand master Hugh O’Donell Alexander, led a team at Bletchley Park responsible for breaking the Enigma cyphers used by the German Army and Air Force during World War II. In spite of his codebreaking prowess, which resulted...
But following the Second World War, the researchers detected a complete volte face. Over the course of 70 years, through a world war, a global depression, a two order of magnitude growth in (available) media volume, and a technological curve moving...
He worked as an advertising photographer early in his career prior to the outbreak of World War II. Following the war, he freelanced as a photographer, selling his photos to magazines such as Life and Vogue.
Yoshizawa honed his craft over decades of origami practice, even as he worked in a factory, trained as a Buddhist monk, and served in the Japanese medical corp in World War II. While there were other Japanese artists who explored their country’s...
