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June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
The backyard brawl that is the tech industry just got a little dirtier. On Tuesday it was confirmed that Facebook engineered a behind-the-scenes smear campaign against its competitor Google. The Daily Beast reports that Facebook hired public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories to news outlets. The goal of the stories was to raise concerns claiming that Google was invading… Read more
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April 20th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Leave it to Google to redefine search once again. And possibly keep us all safe from evil-doers with just a click of our cell phone camera.
As it happens, Google is on the verge of making human faces a searchable commodity. Oh, sure, the technology isn’t perfect yet, but it will be in the next year or so. Some folks… Read more
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March 7th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Facebook needs to monetize their vast user base and they have been steadily progressing towards a fully monetized site for quite a while. Their efforts to monetize include the addition of their ad network and credits system mostly used for in game purchases are some of the big successes they have had.
In the last couple of months they… Read more
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February 14th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Social commerce wasn’t something I had taken much notice of or indeed really cared that much about until I heard talk of it being able to increase sales for an ecommerce site. Then I was interested!
Before I started to research the idea I had a notion that this was a totally new type of commerce (which we can add… Read more
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January 5th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
At last! A strategy to clean up the “digital detritus” that I left all over the Internet before tweaking to the reality that, “What happens online, stays online . . . forever!” (See: ‘Dealing with ‘Online-Multiple Personality Disorder’)
Writing on Time magazine’s Techland blog, Allie Townsend outlines what steps you can take if you, like me, were initially careless in… Read more
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December 20th, 2010 by Damian Davila
Groupon’s CEO, 30-year old Andrew Mason, has just joined the Hall of Fame of Entrepreneurs that say no to a lot of money. Just like Facebook’s Zuckerberg did to Yahoo! and MTV Networks just a few years ago, Groupon has declined the $6 billion offer from Google.
There are both supporters and critics of Groupon’s snub to Google, but nobody… Read more
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December 20th, 2010 by Cijo Abraham Mani
Does your company have a social media presence ? If not, it is time that you should build up one!
Google and Bing has made it clear that social signals are now used as a ranking factor.
Social media signals do had its own priority in search long back as I have been doing extensive research on the same… Read more
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December 7th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Have you ever tried to delete your social networking account? In some cases, it is a simple process. You click a few buttons, confirm and a day or so later you are wiped from the database. But with the creation of more intensive websites, it is becoming increasingly harder to delete your account. In some cases it may seem… Read more
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November 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
SinglesAroundMe can replace the standby phrase of “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” and replace it with an upscale app to see where available singles are located. The hot new trend in apps is the geo-location applications to help find friends, potential friends and even now, potential mates.
Lavalife and eHarmony, the heavy… Read more
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November 22nd, 2010 by Annie Wallace
There are some search engines that immediately come to mind when you conjure a mental list. Google, Yahoo and Bing are almost always going to be the three that are put ahead of the rest. But these are usually only good for basic searches, not live results. When you want to get the best live results on the web,… Read more
