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Originally from Blogmaverick Now you wait for times of uncertainty and change in your business. The time will come. It may come quickly, it may take years and years. But it will come. The nature of our country’s business infrastructure is that it is destined to be boom and bust. Booms are when the smart [...]

Image via Wikipedia One of the fundamental bits of SEO advice I give most people when talking to them is explaining the difference between the two audiences you are writing for; humans and robots (computers). When you write some content on the web it should be safe to assume that a human will be on [...]

I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and loving it. One thing I have noticed as I watch in real time is a growing trend of brands using social network URLs instead of their own. Below are examples from Uniball and Toyota. I remember seeing another for an upcoming movie but I forgot [...]

Image via Wikipedia Last week Google announced an initiative to basically light up a bunch of dark fiber to make what I am calling the Google Internet, or GoogleNet. This is a big deal. For starters, this type of carrier agnostic bandwidth means that they are free of regulation that may occur in the future [...]

Image by Perfecto Insecto via Flickr It is now cheaper than ever before to build and launch a web application. If you are not savvy enough to build something yourself you can turn a spec project into a reality with a number of outsourced development providers such as rentacoder, guru, getafreelancer, and many more. If [...]

Google buzz seems to have the mindshare of the tech community today and for good reason – it is a hard to ignore new addition to many peoples Gmail accounts and causing new conversations and interactions right within a space where many people spend a lot of time – their inbox. Google has made a [...]

Google aired its first ever Superbowl ad using a video that resonated with many folks called Parisian Love.  The video is embedded below.  Search Engine Land has an excellent write up of all the details, including the fact that it had over 1MM views before the event – will be interesting to see how much [...]

Google introduced the idea of Social Search back in October 2009, but I just recently started seeing instances of it in the wild.  I think this is a social version of backrub and only the beginning. The way it is shown is at the bottom of search results: Results from people in your social circle [...]

Everyone has extra stuff to clean out of their closet, but no easy way to donate the bags of clothes. For that reason my friend David Fraga and I organized the New York Clothing Drive, where we come pick up your old items for free in the NY metro area. It is a simple idea [...]