Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google filed for incorporation on September 4th, 1998. Though the Google.com domain name was registered 11 days later, the search engine celebrates its birthday on the 27th of the month. continue reading...
The iPad 2 will be in stores as of March 25th, 2011. continue reading...
We can shop online, meet people online and even take care of our finances online, so why are we surprised? continue reading...
Are workers really working at work? If so, how hard? Find out Here. continue reading...
Seeing how Twitter’s every move is being scrutinized, it reminds me a lot of Facebook circa 2007-08.
Like Facebook, Twitter is essentially a communications tool. But unlike email and chat, what Facebook and Twitter (as it continues to grow) are also navigation tools, look at the Top 10 beneficiaries of Twitter’s surging traffic: continue reading...
Navigation, Content and Communication
Google would be navigation, clearly they won that game. They are now moving towards communications, with things like Gmail… but as email morphs into social networking, they are now moving into that space more and more. continue reading...
Consumers - the engine that kept the American economy humming - seem to be losing confidence, and the ability to shop. From NY Times:
Suddenly, our consumer society is doing a lot less consuming. The numbers are pretty incredible. Sales of new vehicles have dropped 32 percent in the third quarter. Consumer spending appears likely to fall next year for the first time since 1980 and perhaps by the largest amount since 1942. continue reading...
Wordpress: when I want to choose a category, I don’t like to have to scroll down dozens, if not hundreds of categories (especially on our TenMojo.com Top 10 list site)… I’d like to be able to start to type in the category and have an auto-speller list all of the pre-existing options.
Gmail: why do I have to scroll all the way down a message before pressing Reply or Forward. I know the commercial reason why: it’s akin to malls making you go around before taking the next escalator… it forces you to walk by the stores and see the sales… Gmail is similar, by having to scroll down you have to see the text link ads. However, when you are emailing someone back and forth frequently, the thread can be very long… and this becomes tedious. continue reading...
You have to wonder:
Yahoo! gets most of its impressions in Y! Mail… and mail is notoriously hard to monetize. continue reading...