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  • WashingtonPost.com: File-Sharing: A National Security Threat?

    The makers of peer-to-peer file sharing software such as Limewire are no strangers to controversy. Hollywood has been battling file-sharing over the Internet for years as a way to curb music and video piracy. But now, Congress is back in the debate, alleging that P2P software can pose a “national security threat.” This was the…

  • Life, Liberty and Photo-Sharing for All

    So I recently signed up for Facebook and indeed realize that it is fully all that and a bag of chips…well just because while they’re pretty equally matched, there are some subtle differences. First of all, Myspace will allow you to completely customize your profile page and allow amateur web designers to butcher their pages…

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  • Microsoft’s Pre-emptive Strike

    In perhaps a rather successful coup for Microsoft’s online advertising arm, they announced yesterday that they would be the primary online ad-serving resource with respect to their text ads on user-generated web content giant DIGG. To the common user, it may not be a real difference but this has helped Microsoft to unseat the SEM…

  • Keep your Ad Agencies Close, but Search Engines Closer

    I happened to stumble over an article in a July 11 ClickZ newsletter earlier today and found the article somewhat impressive and noteworthy. It’s written by Kevin Lee and for those of you on the client side, this may be something to pay attention to, but is also applicable to those on the agency side……

  • Can Flash and Google Get Along?

    The answer is still no…there’s no way for an all Flash site to be search engine friendly…and a blog on Google’s website proves it. In other words, it came from the horse’s mouth. Here are some snippets from that blog entry: Flash is inherently a visual medium, and Googlebot doesn’t have eyes. Googlebot can typically…

  • Your Ad May Be Infected

    A ClickZ.com article recently reported… July 20, 2007Further Reports on Infected Ads The Wall Street Journal is reporting “Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads,” (link), an issue we reported last month when Internet security firm Finjan released a report. June was by no means the first occurrence of rogue ads showing up on…

  • Domain Names: Snatch Up or Pay Up

    I’ve noticed that there seems to be an issue with how many domain names do you need to buy when you want to promote your website. If you have a company called AlphaXYZ, you’ll need a website…and with a website, you’ll need a domain, or two or three. Why multiple domains? Well because in the…

  • Interactive Media: Traditional Media’s Unmentioned Cousin

    As I sit here and watch the CNN-YouTube debate on TV, I think about all the political hoopla going on in America, I look at all the online tools being used and seldom mentioned on traditional media. Let’s examine the facts… When all the politicians announced their candidacy for president of the United States, mainstream…

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  • Second Life? What’s wrong with the one I have now?

    So an article appeared on ClickZ.com talking about how Second Life has become rather routine and mundane when it comes to opening up a new shop or product to attract the masses. Basically here are some key thoughts from the article: Marketers started jumping on that bandwagon over two years ago. If you haven’t already…

  • Talk about Viral Marketing

    Here’s some shameless plugging courtesy of the Ustream.tv webstream of the Web Managers Round Table that I went to. The guy interviewing me is Peter Corbett from Blattner Brunner and a pretty smart guy to know when it comes to web 2.0 and other social media. If you forward the movie to 5:30, you’ll see…