Internet News
Stephen Colbert Interviews Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Sep 23rd
Here’s a video from last night’s The Colbert Report featuring an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. They bounce around (hey, it’s Stephen Colbert) from privacy issues and computers taking over the world to Google in China and some of Stephen’s browsing choices. Enjoy…
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B2B Social Media Success: 10 Case Studies
Sep 21st
Here’s a great round-up article I came across that offers ten different examples of how companies are finding success with social media for their business-to-business marketing efforts. It gives some good illustrations how a variety of companies in a variety of industries approach social media, what they’re doing with it, and how they’re doing. It’s interesting because it features business-to-business marketing efforts as opposed to the consumer company efforts that tend to get more press. Maybe you’ll find an industry similar to yours in the mix. (Originally posted on socialmediab2b.com). CLICK HERE to read the article.
TweetInternet Explorer 9 (Beta) Launches
Sep 19th
This past week, Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 9 beta 1. It marks the software giant’s biggest effort in years at reclaiming its diminishing mindshare among developers, designers and users alike. IE9 is touted to be a complete overhaul of what Internet Explorer 8 was, with Microsoft claiming it is focused on “beautifying the web”.
Early reports state that IE 9 is faster, has better support for HTML5 and CSS3, and seems better-tuned to the needs of the user than previous versions did. Taking UI cues from Google Chrome, Microsoft has streamlined the interface, making the browser less apparent and allowing the user to focus more on content. The addition of pinned websites makes accessing frequently accessed bookmarks faster and adds some great features by way of jump lists. IE9 also harnesses the PC’s hardware to accelerate graphics, videos and text. The result is that IE9 is able to render heavy graphic interfaces far better than even Chrome or Firefox.
While still a beta product, stay tuned, IE promises to be worth a second look.
TweetNow Make Calls From Gmail
Aug 30th
You can now make calls from within Gmail. Calls from the US and Canada will remain free for the rest of the year and international rates starting at just $0.02/minute.
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Twitter Launches New “Tweet Button”
Aug 12th
Twitter has just launched the “Tweet Button,” an official option for web publishers to count retweets and let their readers easily share content. Watch the video for details on the features…
TweetFollow Twitter Users Without An Account
Aug 11th
Twitter recently announced they are allowing people to follow Twitter users without an account through text messaging. To subscribe, all you have to do is text number 40404 with the message “follow [username]“. You will then be immediately connected to their Twitter stream and will receive text messages whenever they post a new status update.
Twitter introduced this feature mainly for the advertising aspect of things. However, you can surely follow your friends and co-workers without having a Twitter account as well. They wanted people to use it when they are out at a restaurant or at a bar and can subscribe to their Twitter accounts to receive promotions and special deals.
What do you think? Will you use this service?
TweetGoogle Adds Multiple Account Sign-In
Aug 5th
Google has now made it available to all users to sign into multiple Google accounts at one time. This is perfect if you have a Google account for work and also a personal account. You will no longer have to sign out of the current account you are in and then sign into a new one. Go to your Google Accounts page and turn on this feature.
Who Is Texting While Driving?
Jul 16th
Here’s an interesting infographic that shows who’s out there texting while driving and the states that don’t like it. Texting has become a ubiquitous form of communication and we do it everywhere we go. Do you do it on the road, or don’t think people should?
Google Redesigns Image Search on Android and iPhone
May 20th
TweetWhen you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results. So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices, we focused on making it easy to quickly see as many image thumbnails as possible:
- The thumbnails are square to maximize the number of images we can get on the screen at one time so you can scan them quickly
- You can swipe to see the next or previous page of results, or tap the large, stationary ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ page buttons
- We optimized for speed so that the images appear quickly when you browse
When it comes to viewing the images, we now make them as large as possible by introducing a special image viewing page:
- The black background emphasizes the image and the buttons fade after a few seconds so you can just see images with little distraction
- Easily browse through the images by swiping from picture to picture
Yahoo!’s New Ad Aims At Google
May 20th
Yahoo start’s new ad campaign to point out what it thinks Google isn’t enough of.
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