Tim Berners-Lee and Peter Thiel: Differing Views on the Future of the Internet
The very first Web page ever, was posted on the world’s first Web server at around Christmas, 1990 by the Web’s creator, Tim Berners-Lee. He also created the world’s first Web browser (designed to run on the NeXTStep operating system). By 1993 he had already created an interface not that much different than what we expect to [...]
Merry Christmas as Times Change, the Feeling Remains the Same
The Christmas Story as told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, Gmail, Foursquare and Amazon…
Harbor Fish Market & Grille to Host Next Social Media Breakfast Door County #SMBDC Wed, Dec 15
Social networking means “More honey in Door County, when DCBs create a hive mind.” “In most human affairs, the idea is to think globally and act locally,” wrote Pulitzer Prize winning French humanist René Dubos in 1972. For more than four decades I have been following that directive in northeastern Wisconsin starting with the peninsula’s [...]
Inbound Link Tracking – Some Surprising Inconcistencies Depending on What Tracking Tool You Choose
The basic “link:” search technique is quick, but may not be the best way to track a Website’s Link Popularity in Google and Yahoo. While it may be simple, using the link:yourdomain.com technique to trace backlinks does not provide anywhere near as much data as you need to make informed decisions. (Note there can be [...]
Why Does the Old Spice Manly Man Commercial Win Friends (Awards) but Fail to Influence People?
You have probably already seen “The Man Your Man Can Smell Like,” along with more than 15 million other YouTube viewers and countless traditional TV Superbowl fans. The 30-second Old Spice commercial that features actor and former NFL player Isaiah Mustafa is wildy successful in the ranks of viral social media campaigns and within the [...]
Weibo is Chinese for Microblog, Adding a Million New Users a Month
…by comparison, it took Twitter nearly 30 months to attract the same number of users. China’s version of Twitter is Sina’s Weibo. Currently the leading microbloging site, Weibo is experiencing phenomenal growth since it started about 10 months ago. Weibo currently has approximately 10 million users, averaging to 1 million new users per month. More [...]
Fox Valley’s New North Social Media Breakfast on “Tourism Industry” Features Stephen Kastner… on Panel of Experts, June 15
For more than a decade DesignWise Studios has been promoting Door County’s arts, natural beauty, quiet sports and cultural heritage through various online endeavors including Door County Style, Chefs and Compass Magazines with a strong emphasis on demonstrating the impact of social media. “At first, there were just eight of us that decided to get [...]
Your Life is an Open Book… Scanning the Social Grid
What if you could scan through the status updates of 500 million people to search for any key words you were interested in tracking? How about if you could split it by gender? What would you search for? YourOpenBook.org says, “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Whether you want [...]
Get Permission to Advertise… If Not, You Will Most Likely Be Ignored
“According to Forrester Research, 48 percent of consumers today now believe they have the right to decide whether or not to receive advertising.” – Bob Gilbreath in The Next Evolution of Marketing Consider just exactly what that means as you sit there with that remote in your hand, as you turn on the pop-up blocker [...]
Happy Birthday Monster-Baby! YouTube Growth Doubles in Less Than a Year!
At 5-years of age, YouTube’s growth curve is more like a moon-launch and network TV may one day be just as nostalgic a memory. Most of my clients are quite ill-informed when I ask them, “What is the second most popular search engine, right behind Google?” They seem incredulous when I reply,” It’s YouTube.” Here’s [...]
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