Burrell gets digital… kinda

Burrell Communications hired long-time radio executive Don Moore to head up its digital practice. Although, Burrell is one of the countries largest African-American focused advertising agencies, with close to $200 million in billings, until the hiring of Moore early last month they had no digital presence. Moore brings a wealth of radio industry experience to [...]

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Tech Week in Review: Chrome, Facebook Boobs, Big Bing, DandyiD

Google finally released a version of Chrome that works on Mac and Linux. Facebook reversed a decision where they had removed photos posted by a British woman who had a mastectomy. According to ReadWriteWeb, Bing dropped their mobile version just after their new web search became available. The new Pro version of DandyiD sounds quite interesting for those of us deeply involved in social media.

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Big Bing Theory

“But It’s Not Google” is the cheeky acronym some in the tech community have given to Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Microsoft has spent $80 million dollars in advertising, hundreds of millions in acquisitions (by acquiring Powerset last year) and over a year in development on a new campaign aimed at supplanting Google as the [...]

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Is Bing the Search Engine of the Future?

I’ve avoided talking about Bing because I kinda think web search is boring. Don’t get me wrong. It’s definitely a vital tool, but Google already has that on lock and we’ve already seen new search engines try to step to Google and fail miserably. Then again, I remember when Altavista was my search engine of [...]

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Twitter Steps Up It’s Search Game

Search is one of the single most important aspects of the web at this time. This is because of the social nature of the web as we know it today. There is so much information available not only about random topics, but about individuals. Whoever can figure out how to leverage this wealth of data [...]

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Google Latitude Now Makes Stalking Much Easier

Google Latitude originally launched as just another service to let friends and family know your physical location. Only a select group could actually see your updates. Well, it seems many users felt that this left too much work for their stalkers to do. They wanted to be able to share their exact location not only [...]

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Let Me Google that for You

One of the most annoying things is someone pinging me and asking me a question whose answer is readily available to any and everyone who has access to a search engine; especially Google.  I know I’m not alone ;)  So for those of us who have this annoyance and who also have a sense of [...]

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Google Labs Is Back In Full Effect

Google Labs is the arm of Google that is supposed to be working on hot new Google toys for us to play with. They’ve been quiet for quite a while now except for the Gmail Labs part (GTD and Tasks), but recently rebuilt the site from the ground up. They’ve also dropped two new toys [...]

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Why Google Ventures Should Matter to You

Yesterday Google launched Google Ventures, a fund that will invest in companies in the consumer internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech, and healthcare industries. As you can see they are interested in a number industries however they won’t be limited to just those.  They are also interested in funding companies in a variety of stages [...]

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Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

I got my Google Voice invite Friday afternoon and have been fiddling around with it ever since.  Many folks might remember Google’s lackluster (at first) acquisition of GrandCentral.  I signed up for it a while back and gave the number to all of three people who promptly decided to keep dialing my real number.  In [...]

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