MySpace Analytics for artists

Dear reader,

Logging to my MySpace account tonight, I was delighted to see that MySpace has a new analytics dashboard for artists! Although it only shows little information for now such as song plays and friends’ demographics, it is definitely a move towards the right direction. I’m also delighted to see that different social media platforms are [...]

New Google AdPlanner GUI

Dear reader,
This morning I was delighted as I was greeted with an e-mail from Google stating they had just renewed the Google AdPlanner interface.
Google AdPlanner is a service with which one can define the most suitable websites for advertising to desired target group. You can also build media plans with the websites that best respond to your target [...]

Chief Web and Chief Internet Officers (CWO, CIO)

Dear reader,
Today I accidentally surfed on this blog post about Chief Web Officers. I must say I’m with the blog post in that companies and corporations of this age should start considering hiring top-level officers to be in charge of the company’s whole web environment and presence. There are way too many wrong paths that [...]

Headliner: Google

Dear Reader,
Google is in the headlines right now. Earlier today I trackbacked TechCrunch’s article about the rumour of Google acquiring Digg. Later on I found Google Operating System’s contrasting article on the same subject.
Another thing I found out about today is Google’s new article repository, Knol. A bit Wikipedia-like endeavour for creating articles but with the [...]

Google offers $200 million for Digg?

Dear Reader,
TechCrunch has released news about Google looking to buy Digg for $200 million. There had been rumours on this already in March this year. Interestingly Google has been experimenting with Digg-like features in their search lately.

New features coming up in iGoogle!

Dear reader,
Google is going to enhance its iGoogle service by integrating functionalities from Google Reader, Gmail, Chat, etc. into iGoogle’s soon renewed GUI. This is currently tested by a bunch of lucky few.
Check out the Google Operating System blog along with instructions on how to be able to test it yourself!! Magnificient!

The future of Google search – new functionality on its way

Dear Reader,
Lately Google has been experimenting with very Digg and Wikia-like new search functionality. The research, according to Techcrunch, has actually started already a year ago. There seems to be only a handful of lucky test drivers at the time being.
The new search under testing consist e.g. of the ability to rate search engine results with ‘thumb down’ [...]

Trusted content in the web 2.0 world…

Dear reader,
The more I think about the possibilities and current hype of the so-called “web 2.0” (or has the attention already turned to 3.0?), the more I fear for decrease in the amount of online quality content. Ask any SEO consultant, and they will still cite the old philosophy “content is king”. Yes, I’m fully [...]