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You know I love Flipboard. So does Time Magazine. So does Apple, which just named Flipboard the iPad app of the year. The problem with Flipboard is that itβs an app, not the Web, and I keep hoping someone will show me a really well-designed web app that shows me that the Web can still [...]
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The game used to be relatively simple. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Bingo! A digital marketing success story. Not now. Like print newspapers, basketball players under 6 feet tall, and the McRib sandwich, the [...]
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Not quite sure why Prime plc, a company who funds, designs, constructs and maintains buildings is launching Gemsta, a social networking site which lets you quickly and easily FIND, SAVE and SHARE things you find online whether that be for shopping, travel or work.
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In the midst of seeming never-ending debate and argument about how the mainstream media will remain relevant and make money β when, for instance, The Times and Sunday Times now charge you to access news as well as other content on their websites β comes an entirely different approach to the paywall concept with The [...]
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I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ’09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google. My very first blog, Life is Marketing, was a Blogger blog, but I had to wonder how Blogger was faring in an era of microblogging (like [...]
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There is a character on Dilbert called Mordac. If you’ve seen him, you know he is a caricature of an unfortunately real person in many corporate organizations who worries solely about data security at the expense of usability, accessibility and just about anything else: We all hate Mordac. Of course, on a logical level, most [...]
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Last year I consulted with a local TV affiliate that wanted to build a localized social network. Part of the plan was to equip citizen journalists so that they could record and upload videos of news stories relevant to their town or county. We would have killed for the new YouTube Direct tool just launched [...]
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