The article “5 Myths of Web 2.0” by The Drama 2.0 Show explains it best: Even if the cost of building Web 2.0 products is cheap, effectively distributing them in the marketplace is a significant challenge because of the competition… Proponents of the notion that Web 2.0 businesses are cheap to build fail to distinguish [...]
This week, Paris is playing host to a meeting that may change the face of the Internet as we know it. The international nonprofit group ICANN will vote on (and likely pass) new procedures in assigning new generic Top Level Domains or gTLDs. The move is a response to the Internet’s massive growth that threatens [...]
Are you a Twitter fan? Twitter is everywhere in the news, it seems. It’s great for keeping in touch with friends, and even addictive, but a lot of people have been using it for more than just idle updates. Twitter’s concept is quite simple, but given the right tools, it can be harnessed into an [...]
Hitwise, an Internet metrics company, has just released the latest statistics in search engine usage for the US and UK. The data was collected from a sizeable sample of 10 million users. As expected, Google is leading the pack, even posting slight increases that help it pull farther away from its main rivals. The four [...]
6. Use UFOs. Though not the flying kind, UFOs (Unobtrusive Flash Objects) are cool in their own way. They are DOM scripts that add intelligence to your website by allowing it to detect if the visitor’s computer has the Flash plug-in or not. They will only embed Flash objects on your site if they are [...]
We may be living in the 21st century, but as far as Flash SEO is concerned, it’s as if we’re trapped in the Dark Ages. While there are successful, high-ranking Flash websites, most of these are of already established brands and/or have the ability to generate a huge number of backlinks to boost their PR [...]
A few weeks ago, a team of Google researchers presented a project that may just revolutionize image search. See, during the last few years, image search has been rapidly growing in popularity. Development in this field, however, has been slow at best. Right now search results are still dependent on textual clues like filenames, image [...]
While websites are great for gaining immediate global exposure (or notoriety, as the case may be), there are times when your product would benefit more from local search engine targeting. For example, you have a pizzeria in Trieste, Italy. A person in Hawaii may accidentally stumble on your site and get a craving for your [...]
Small applications embedded in web pages called widgets are enjoying a huge amount of reach among the online community. ComScore’s Widget Metrix measured 20% penetration worldwide, and 40% penetration in the all-important US market. Universal McCann’s research showed roughly the same results. Penetration is defined as the number of unique widget viewers versus the number [...]
With the advent of Web 2.0, social media has become an integral part of daily online life. It has become so powerful with its viral nature that succeeding in this arena may become a make or break deal for your website. If you plan to harness it, you might as well do it properly. Here [...]
