Why the U.N. Tax Proposal Could Seriously Harm the Web
The United Nations is considering a proposal that could significantly impact some of the world’s largest online content providers. According to some leaked documents, which are being made available at...
View ArticleSongza: New Platform That Is Majorly Disrupting Music Apps
If you haven’t heard of Songza yet, it’s probably just a matter of time. It’s a new online music service that is experiencing tremendous growth in its iPhone and iPad apps as well as its Web...
View ArticleStill Skeptical about Facebook’s Advertising Plan? Wildfire Says You...
After Facebook’s IPO disaster, lots of questions have been raised concerning the company’s future. The biggest question, of course, is the issue of profitability. Although Facebook has brought in...
View ArticleTech Giants Hope To Stop “Bad Ads” With New Alliance
A new alliance has formed in hopes of keeping “ bad ads” off the Web. The Ads Integrity Alliance, as it is being called, began through non-profit organization StopBadware, but it now has the...
View ArticleNew Platform Behavio Aims To Turn Smartphones Into Sensors
The Knight Foundation recently hosted a News Challenge in order to find up-and-coming innovative ideas pertaining to media. Among the winners, which were awarded $1.37 million in grants, was one...
View ArticleGutCheck: Helping Brands Understand Social Signals in Real-Time
As social media websites have grown as places for fun, games, and networking, they have also developed into valuable business platforms. In today’s world, brands strive to get one more “like” on...
View ArticleWhat J.C. Penney Should Have Done With Its New Marketing Plan
Earlier this year, U.S. retail chain J.C. Penney began completely revamping its business strategy. Under the leadership of new CEO Ron Johnson, the former head of retail at Apple, there were a lot of...
View ArticleHow to Make Money Through Online Forums
Although online forums may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Internet, they play a very significant role in both the Web as a whole and the social side of the Web....
View ArticleIs Google Becoming a Copycat to Keep Its Competitive Edge?
Google has made a lot of changes in the past couple of years that has really shaken up the search industry. It has rolled out numerous Panda updates, introduced Penguin, and most recently, launched its...
View ArticleWhat If Text Linking Could Be Optimized? With LinkSmart, It Can
Connecting content together through links is really what began to shape the Internet into what it is today. Fortunately for publishers, multiple tools have been developed to make the process of...
View ArticleNew Service Goalee Helps Users Not Only Connect, But Also Meet Goals
There’s a new service called Goalee on the scene that is designed to help individuals meet specific goals. According to James Brown, the co-founder of Goalee, the tool is really a combination of...
View ArticleStuxnet Explained: What It Is and What Its Implications Are
After David Sanger of the New York Times exposed the very revealing information regarding the Stuxnet computer worm and the U.S.’s alleged involvement in it, a lot of questions began to arise. There...
View ArticleIs Competition Really a Problem in the Tech Industry?
There is no disputing the fact that competition has been dramatically debated in the tech industry in recent years. Google, Facebook, Apple, and many other companies that we would consider major...
View ArticleKiip: The App That May Change Advertising Forever
If you’re involved in advertising, you know that it’s difficult to get people to click on ads. Being familiar with this concept, Brian Wong, who, let me add, is only 21-years-old, came up with the...
View ArticleCan the ‘Declaration of Internet Freedom’ Keep the Web Open?
Just as the United States celebrated its independence this 4th of July, multiple Internet activists have come together in an effort to proclaim a “Declaration of Internet Freedom.” More than 100...
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