I’ve finished reading the book The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. It is a novel about a brave new world that we could face in this century, when nanotechnology is pervasive. I quite enjoyed the book. It is clear that the author really did his homework on nanotech. The book is titled “The Diamond Age” […]

It is great that there are Googlers (Google employees) out there blogging — sharing their thoughts, ideas and commentary with the rest of the world (including us SEOs!). But most of the stuff just isn’t of any value to anyone but their friends and family. I could care less that they went on a hike […]

It used to be in the “old days” of the Web, domain name speculators and cybersquatters would sit on desirable or trademarked or typo domain names and demand ridiculous prices. Selling a domain name for orders of magnitude more than you paid for it was the ultimate goal. These so-called “domainers” are playing a different […]

Despite the increasing use of search engine friendly URLs, custom meta tags and cleaner navigation, there’s a lot of web content out there that is inaccessible to the search engines. Perhaps it is in the “too hard basket” for many designers. In which case, perhaps you need a new designer! After all (repeat after me) […]

No secret that I think Flickr is hot stuff (just refer back to my recent posts about Flickr here and here). It’s definitely Web 2.0 material. Flickr investors like Esther Dyson must be pretty happy right now, but Yahoo! stockholders should be even happier. >John Battelle says his sources estimate the deal to be worth […]

Microsoft officially launched their new MSN Search today, as anticipated. Bill Gates makes the announcement on the MSN home page with a prominently positioned “Letter from Bill Gates,” complete with photo. (although I prefer these photos of him). This is good news for marketers. Microsoft’s new search technology offers a new channel for reaching your […]

Last week in Chicago I had the distinct pleasure of meeting some A-List bloggers in person at the AMA Blogging Workshop, including two people I consider friends and colleagues: Toby Bloomberg and Dana VanDen Heuvel. (Thanks Toby for the great “Caution A-list Blogger: You May Be Blogged” T-shirt. It’s been working great at striking paranoia […]

Don’t think you’ve got what it takes to author a great blog? No worries; just hire a blogger. That’s exactly what BizNetTravel has done to author the BizNetTravel Blog. They hired Olivier Travers to maintain the blog for them, which he does quite well, imo. (Actually, initially it was Rick Bruner they hired to maintain […]

I’d always put my money on companies that “get it” over ones that don’t. Companies that “get it” ride the Cluetrain. Google gets it, and did in the early years. It has already borne fruit. When Google IPO’d, the stock opened at $85 a share and now sells for around $180, down from its 52-week […]