Posts Tagged ‘web’

Via Gerry McGovern
Traditional marketing and communication is about getting people to do things. Web marketing and communication is about helping people do things.
“If you don’t like a particular ad on your screen, just throw it in the bin but if you found it interesting or useful, why not share the ad with your other friends [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Jason Kincaid on December 8, 2008

The Pulitzer Prize Board, the governing body behind American journalism’s highest honor, has announced that online-only newspapers will now be eligible for the Prize. The announcement comes as many traditional media outlets are struggling - the Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy today and The New [...]

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December 6, 2008 - 11:16 pm PDT - by Sean P. Aune

While 2008 has turned out to be quite an eventful year in tech, there were 20 key events that stood out and got people talking for days if not weeks after the moment had passed.
From the rise of [...]

Via Gerry McGovern
Of all the things that make the Web different from print, linking is the most important.
Are we tool-making animals or are we animals made by tools? It’s an old question. How much did the quill shape our minds and worlds? We invented the printing press which then invented a new society, a new [...]

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November 9, 2008 - 1:12 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

The answer is nothing. Nada. Absolutely nil. I can’t conjure up one measly scenario in which the Web can’t be of guidance in some way or another.
You can educate yourself. You can socialize with people you know. You can [...]

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October 26, 2008 - 9:50 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski 6 Comments

Here we are in 2008, more Web-connected than ever. It’s pretty great, right? You betcha. The ease, the speed, the mobility. To quote a famous young lad, “Please sir, can I have some more?”
It’s good to take a breather [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Ryan Paul | Published: October 15, 2008 - 09:08PM CT

Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. To conduct this research project, Opera created the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA), a tool that crawls the web and indexes [...]

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October 16, 2008 - 4:47 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

The Communications Data Bill, suggested by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, proposes that all UK residents’ mobile and Web communication should be stored by the ISPs and MSPs in a giant database for 12 months. Actual content of conversations would not be stored, just times and [...]