So here’s episode 19 of the HipMojo show. In this edition, we look at some of the biggest wave making tech companies in 2011, how mainstream entertainers are using the web to break off on their own, what SOPA means to users, and how Big Brother is being privatize. Most Important Tech Companies in 2011 [...]
So last week I was down at SMX East 2009 in NYC. I had a blast, both during business hours and afterwards. During business hours, though, I was blogging and video blogging for NVI. Well, of all the video interviews I did, here’s the one I enjoyed doing the most — and I’m not even [...]
It looks like Microsoft’s (MSFT) re-entry into search with the launch Bing.com might have less to do with taking on Google (GOOG) as a search engine, and more to do with entering more uncharted waters: cloudvertisingg. Of course, this would still be putting them in direct competition with GOOG, but in more of a proactive [...]
The only real reason that Yahoo! remains to be relevant is Flickr. Now, by relevant, I don’t mean profitable, long-term viable, or responsible for x-thousands of jobs. I mean only that “if it was gone, people would miss it.” Flickr is the only real part of the Yahoo! portfolio that really gets it. And it [...]
It’s been a busy week in the world of newspapers. While publishers continue to watch their revenue streams dry up, entrepreneur Steve Brill, former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and cable guy-turned-investor Leo Hindery, Jr. think they have the answer: an online paid-content model. In any case, both these events have generated a considerable [...]
As I write this, I am at Affiliate Summit 2009 where everyone’s talking about making money online. It’s different than other Geek Conferences that way: less BS evangelizing about Web 2.0 and more of the bottom line. And that got me thinking about this
I shot this back in November when Michael Gray helped me with some PageRank problems. Shortly after shooting the video, the problems inexplicably re-occured, so I put off on posting the vid. Since then, however, Google did another PageRank update, and my own PageRank was almost fully restored (to a 4). I am confident that [...]