Last Year’s Predictions for 2010

Last year, I tried to predict what will happen in 2010 in the Google world. Here are the hits and misses:1. Google Chrome's bookmark sync will be extended to sync the documents stored in Google Docs.Not yet.2. Google will launch a service that... read more

The 2011 Question: Will Yahoo! Be Around in 2012?

Yahoo’s recent layoff of more than 4% of its workforce leads one to ask what everybody’s been thinking for a while: will 2011 be the final year for Yahoo? Like any good company in trouble, the Yahoo! PR department has been trying to put the... read more

Chrome OS Is All About the Missing Features

Here's an fascinating quote from Ted Power, the former lead designer for Google's mobile web apps:"Chrome OS could potentially mark a profound leap forward. For the first time, all the layers between the network and the computer have been removed.... read more

Internet Marketing by Smart People

This is part of my weekly mashup series featuring internet marketing resources from some of my favorite smart people. This week, there are great resources covering everything from blogging to ebook creation to running a blogger outreach... read more

131 different kinds of marketing

If ever you wanted evidence of just how sweeping and fragmented "marketing" is, try making a catalog of every kind of marketing out there. It starts simple enough, with search marketing, email marketing, product marketing, viral marketing —... read more

Regional Marketing with Google Places

Small businesses marketing locally have unprecedented opportunities in the digital world, thanks to the localization of Social Media and Search Engine Optimization. Success isn't limited to budget or resources but to leveraging the latest regional... read more

Google Shows Reading Levels for Search Results

Google's advanced search page has a brand new feature that lets you restrict results to a certain reading level. You can select from showing basic results, intermediate results, advanced results or annotating the results with reading... read more

2011 – Year of the Search Engine? If 2010 Is Any Indication, It Will Be

As we pull up on the end of 2010, it’s kind of difficult to tag this year to one monumental moment in Search Engine Optimization. This is simply because so a lot of other things occurred in the industry. The ongoing Google/Facebook spat saw both... read more