The State of Politics - and the Web

Seeded on Wed Nov 1, 2006 3:34 PM EST (Get A New Browser)

What are the advantages for politicians to embrace social media and social networks? By using means 'New Media' provides the cost of campaigning is decreased dramatically.

campaign, tech, politics, blogging, web, podcasting, social-media, social-network

Get A New Browser

Seeded on Wed Nov 1, 2006 3:28 PM EST (Get A New Browser)

What are the advantages for politicians to embrace social media and social networks? By using means 'New Media' provides the cost of campaigning is decreased dramatically.

technology, politics, blog, web, podcasts, viral, social-media

Why Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are NOT Competing

Seeded on Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:30 AM EDT (Get A New Browser)

Yes, I know, they do compete in many many endeavors but each company has successfully carved out their own niche.

google, yahoo, technology, business, internet, microsoft, web

How the XBOX 360 Failed

Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:42 PM EDT

So why is it a failure? I will tell you many reasons and they some are a product of Microsoft's recent failures to embrace trends with agility and some are a product of Microsoft's old-school mentality of producing hardware and software. The XBOX failed in three key areas

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technology, microsoft, xbox, videogames

tourb.us - live music, delivered

Seeded on Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:58 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

tourb.us delivers information on live music. read a review and q&a. q) when and how did you come up with the idea for tourb.us?

technology, music, internet, web

Thanks Bill

Seeded on Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:53 AM EDT (Get A New Browser)

I don't care who you are — a Mac fanatic, a Linux geek, or a Windows follower - Bill Gates deserves the utmost respect from business and technology persons of all kinds.

technology, microsoft, bill-gates

Implementing Google AJAX Search

Seeded on Mon Jun 5, 2006 2:46 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

As a member of the Google AJAX Search API Google Group I have seen multiple requests for a tutorial for non-developers who want to implement this on their site or blog. So, here goes.

google, technology, search, design, web, ajax, javascript, web-development

Left and Right Design

Seeded on Wed May 24, 2006 11:45 AM EDT (Get A New Browser)

The idea of left and right design came to me recently when working on prototypes for a web application I am building.

technology, design, web-design, interaction-design, user-interface

Workflow at work

Seeded on Thu May 11, 2006 5:20 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

If you or your company have not Gotten Real yet than this will hit home. I've been a developer / architect / project manager on a few quite large projects and over planning has occured on each and every one.

business, internet, management, productivity, gtd

Google Trends

Seeded on Wed May 10, 2006 3:46 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

Just released today is a web developer's and internet marketer's dream. Finally Google gave us some data we can use for statistical trending.

google, technology, search, advertising, internet, marketing, web

Social Niche

Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:11 PM EDT (getanewbrowser.com)

The options for the creation of scale free networks using demographic segments as you travel down the long tail is exponential.

business, advertising, internet, development, marketing, blog, web

Project Detail Systems

Seeded on Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:17 AM EDT (Get A New Browser)

Awhile ago I did a piece called 'Web 3.0 in Production' which primarily discussed Phil Wainwright's idea of Web 3.0 as additional layer on top of existing web services. Although I do not like the versioning the idea behind what Phil explained was very good.

technology, internet, development, web

Brand Search Side Effects

Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:28 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

In a recent article on Clickz, an internet marketing site, they discussed a study on search trends and branding. The result was that 75% of searches in their study in February were for brand names, up over 17% from last year.

google, media, business, search, advertising

Bill Gates goes back to college

Seeded on Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:18 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

Bill Gates starring in a Microsoft sponsored spoof of Napoleon Dynamite. This was produced for internal use only but leaked to YouTube.

technology, internet, microsoft, comedy

Google Strategy, Part Deux

Seeded on Fri Apr 7, 2006 5:29 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

A couple months ago I posted my first analysis on Google's strategy. Since then I've been very intrigued with the future of advertising and media and the complementary nature of the two when technology is involved. In essence both are using technology to come together.

google, media, technology, advertising, internet

Google Music Search and Google Reviews

Seeded on Fri Apr 7, 2006 3:25 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

One of the results looked different than traditional Google results so I clicked on it and found Google Music Search. It's not very powerful but quite functional with album, album cover, song, lyric aggregation.

google, technology, internet, web

Designing for Content

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 4:40 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

Awhile ago I wrote 'The Unsurprising Truth About Good Design' as a response to Mark Daoust's ridiculous post about the design of Plenty Of Fish and how bad design (or no design) is good in many circumstances where content is the primary attraction.

media, technology, design, web

Old Media, New Ideas

Seeded on Wed Apr 5, 2006 1:06 PM EDT (Get A New Browser)

After thinking about it a lot it's not the media that intrigues me but the convergence of old industry with new technologies into new industries. Lines are being blurred as media mixes with the internet to create new advertising avenues.

media, web-2-0, business, advertising

Media Madness

Seeded on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:45 PM EST (Get A New Browser)

The future of IPTV is now. CBS has proved the legitimacy of broadcasting via the internet. But what does that mean for the industry? I see it as an efficiency boost for media organizations and advertising agencies.

media, technology, business, internet, web

Dynamics

Seeded on Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:50 PM EST (GetANewBrowser)

As companies like Google and Yahoo are swiping up entrepreneurs who are building web companies and continually pumping out new products Microsoft has been sitting back watching. Today I realized that the old giant is not slow moving.

web2-0, technology, business, tech, internet, microsoft, web

The UnSurprising Truth About Good Design

Seeded on Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:08 PM EST (Get A New Browser)

In 'The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites', Mark provides several examples and ideas about how ugly websites are just as good as well-designed sites. Well Mark, I think it's safe to say that Get A New Browser disagrees with this notion.

technology, tech, internet, design, web, web-design

Web 3.0 in production

Seeded on Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:11 AM EST (Get A New Browser)

Move over Web 2.0, Web 3.0 is knocking on the door. It's going to barge in and use you as its floormat to become the buzziest of terms.

technology, web-2-0, business, tech, internet, web, web-3-0

Gates sizes up the Web's next generation | Tech News on ZDNet

Seeded on Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:37 AM EST (ZDNet)

The company has long provided the tools for building Web sites. But it's been a couple steps behind when it comes to some of the bigger ideas and business models that have surfaced around Web 2.0, such as advertising-based software.

web2-0, technology, business, tech, internet, microsoft

Office 2.0 in a Web 2.0 world

Seeded on Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:15 AM EST (getanewbrowser.com)

This article discusses the adoption of Web 2.0 (software as service) on an enterprise scale and the hurdles it has to overtake to get to that point. They point that enterprise level systems of Web 2.0 nature are nearly three years out. What's the biggest hurdle?

technology, web-2-0, internet, software

getanewbrowser.com: More on Google Office

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 2:30 PM EST (getanewbrowser.com)

Google is not a software company anymore. Microsoft can keep that. Google is an advertising company, and that's that. We can only guess at this point though so we will have to wait to see what happens. That's my two cents worth.

google, technology, business, tech, internet, web

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