When I was a wee lad and the internet was new(ish), the first site I ever visited was Yahoo. It took me everywhere I wanted to go (as well as a few places I DIDN'T want to go, but hey...). God bless the untold amount of human operators who carefully indexed every web site that was submitted to them...
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SteveS
on 18 Feb 2010
Filed under: facebook, Google, search, yahoo
So I read today that MySpace is "worth almost nothing", financially speaking (at least according to the MSN Money article "Is MySpace worth almost nothing?" ). I find this to be amazing, especially as Mr. Rupert Murdoch ponied up 580 million bucks for it a couple years back. How can...
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SteveS
on 15 Oct 2009
Filed under: facebook, social media, semantic
Microsoft announced that it’s getting into the social media monitoring space. No surprise here, it’s typical of Microsoft to try and grab a piece-of-the-pie after an open technology achieves mass adoption. Their entry into the social media space is via an aggregation and monitoring tool called...
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AngelaLawson
on 23 Sep 2009
Filed under: meaning, apps, twitter, future of the web, semantic web, facebook, social media, business, brand safety
Yesterday a post was made on this very site (" Internet Killed the Video Star ") that calls out "correct spelling, enunciation and grammar" as one of the many things "lost" from our society as a direct result of the rise of the Internet. Personally, I mostly miss bricks...
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SteveS
on 10 Sep 2009
Filed under: twitter, facebook, social media