Protecting our data in the cloud is of utmost importance. I’ve mentioned securing the cloud several times on this blog and was please to see this Boingboing post, Grendel: free/open source software for protecting your cloud data.
Read MoreBack in the day I was involved in some of the early banner ads at Hotwired. This article made me feel nostalgic. Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising!
Read MoreIt’s that time again, get ready for Webinnovators Group session #23. Webinnovators has grown from 20 people in a room when I first attended the second or third event to almost 1,000 at the last one. We begin with the doors officially opening at 6:30pm in the Cambridge Royal Sonesta Hotel. At 7pm in the [...]
Read MoreSvetlana Gladkova talks about a survey of online tools used by businesses for marketing. So while you may think that social media tools are heavily employed by businesses for promotion, the survey has a surprise for you: in fact, only traditional internet tools are actually heavily used by marketing people so direct mail and web [...]
Read MoreJoshua schachter, founder of the Delicious social bookmarking service, weighs in on url shorteners. any phone that can run a web browser and thus follow links can also run a proper client, and doesn’t have to hew to the SMS character limit. Shorteners are relatively easy and lightweight to set up. Adding a simple interstitial [...]
Read MoreTechCrunch says if (url-shortening service) bit.ly Is Worth $8 Million, TinyURL Is Worth At Least $46 Million. I personally can’t stand short url’s and I bet domain name marketers are even more upset. Why pay a lot of money for a seemingly-great url when it’s going to get morphed and truncated into a mini-url owned [...]
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