eBay has recently made some interesting acquisitions that I’m sure has someone at Amazon paying a little closer attention. For those that have not used eBay (yes there are some) Â it’s more than an auction site. It’s an ecommerce site and with the ability to ‘Buy it Now’. I’d never purchased anything from eBay until recently. Pretty easy experience and not...
Mashable recently posted about Bing gaining ground on Google and I can’t help but wonder if it’s because Bing search is featured on Facebook. With 33% of all US Internet users on Facebook throughout the day (10% internationally), it’s hard to imagine that users aren’t leaving to go to Google to perform searches. Why not just stay here! With the imminent release of...
Currently the 31% of all mobile users in the US have a smartphone. Just in case you weren’t going to do the math; that leaves a staggering 70% of the market with feature phones. Or as some of my friends call them; dumb phones. I think there is an enormous misconception that once the remainder of the market transitions to smartphones (whatever percentage that ends up being), that everyone...
If you’re unfamiliar with the the concept of PageRank . . . then go here for a detailed explanation. To woefully oversimplify, PageRank is the method with which Google determines which sites are returned in what order when search for something. Currently PageRank is a complex combination of your site content (optimized & fresh) + inbound links + metadata. All of this information...
@VenessaMiemis and @AlvisBrigis are creating a series of video interviews talking to some very smart people about  the future of Facebook. More information about the project here.
Last week I posted about the future of websites as essentially being a database sending data out to a businesses outposts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc and then I posted about businesses who have brick and mortar outlets having a distinct advantage over purely online businesses. This got me thinking about what a website with location built into its DNA (so to speak) may look like. I came up...
Mark Zuckerberg meet Mark Zuckerberg meet Mark Zuckerberg. Enough said. Enjoy!
Update: I’ve been thinking about this post (for obvious reasons to me: which I won’t share) and I feel pretty good about Google’s future. Why? Because they create amazing tools. Those tools can be the social object for all the web to share and talk about. Product focus is the best focus. Given this, I’m sure that Larry and Sergey can successfully lead Google into the...
I recently saw this amazing graphic created by a Facebook intern and other than the fact it looks amazing, it also looked a little more than familiar to me. It looks like an international travel “pattern” video I posted a couple of years ago. Â I’m not saying this an exact match and yet if I were Travelocity, Expedia, etc or a travel agency (yep. some are still around) I’d...