Ah, the good ole friendly Internet. Hanging with your pals on Facebook. Tweeting funny quips with co-workers. Shopping for books on Amazon. Reading blogs. And, of course, stumbling upon child pornography, criminals stealing your credit card information, and viruses infecting your laptop, malware infiltrating your personal information and spam bursting your email inbox. Ah, […]
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Tag Archives: Web
Getting Rational on SOPA
January 25, 2012 
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The debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act (known as SOPA) has jumped the shark. SOPA and its companion bill Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were both shelved recently by Congress and the Senate after a frenzied protest by dozens of websites and Internet companies including Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. The goal of the bills […]
Read moreSocial Sharing is the New SEO
August 11, 2011 0 Comments
Finding things on the internet becomes less important when people stop looking. People haven’t stopped looking yet, but they’re doing it less. Why? Because they don’t have to search for content anymore. It comes right to them. Content is being discovered and pushed right to them by their social networks. Why head off to Google […]
Read moreBattle of the Titans: Google vs. Facebook
July 1, 2011 0 Comments
Google is worried about Facebook. Very worried. Why? Because people are spending less time on the Internet and more time on Facebook. Web browsing is already old school. Discovery and sharing are happening on social networks – not on search engines. The way people are using the internet is changing rapidly. Search has become a […]
Read moreOne in Three Internet Users is on Facebook
June 13, 2011 1 Comment
Facebook has become so big and powerful that communicators and marketers should consider it as another category outside of the web. In other words, brands need an online strategy – and a Facebook strategy. Here’s why. The population of the world is projected to be about 6.9 billion people at the end of 2011. Just […]
Read more Sharing Is the New Web Browsing
June 9, 2011 0 Comments
Sharing links to content, particularly on Facebook, is now an enormous engine for driving web traffic and has transformed content delivery. A new study released this week from ShareThis, Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners found that 10 percent of all Internet traffic is a result of sharing and that sharing accounts for 31 percent […]
Read moreWhy I Canceled My Newspaper Subsciption
September 3, 2010 6 Comments
I made the break a month ago. After more than 25 years of having the Boston Globe delivered to my door (there have been many doors), I canceled my subscription on July 31. Let me be clear. I no longer buy the print edition, but I still read the Globe daily: Online and on my […]
Read moreIt Must be True. I Read it on the Internet!
September 1, 2010 8 Comments
Here are a few things that I’ve learned on the Internet: President Obama was born in Kenya and is not an American citizen The Holocaust never happened. The Democrats tried to create “death panels” for the elderly in their health care overhaul bill The September 11 terrorist attacks were plotted and by the Bush administration […]
Read more The Internet’s “Free” Problem
July 28, 2010 93 Comments
Findings from the 2010 Digital Future Project released this month: 49% of Internet users have tried free micro-blogging services like Twitter 0% of them would be willing to pay for it. That’s zero (Z-E-R-O) percent. As in nobody. As Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future, noted: “Such an extreme finding […]
Read moreFacebook Has Grown Faster than the Internet
July 22, 2010 2 Comments
Five hundred million people have signed up for Facebook in the six years since it was founded. The company announced this staggering statistic yesterday. Yet for some people, especially those in business, discussions about Facebook come with an eye roll and references to teenagers. To these people Facebook – like social media in general – […]
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