Looking at Google Trends for SOPA and PIPA, the majority of searches came from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries (sopa de fideo con pollo sounds delicious) or people searching for the now famous sister of a famous new royal – until this week. This week as Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and other prominent sites protested SOPA [...]

For fun, I follow celebrity gossip Twitter feeds. For work, I follow a lot of social media and eCommerce Twitter feeds. The two categories rarely cover the same thing, unless Ashton is investing in a new start-up. That’s why I found today’s news about MC Hammer developing a new search engine to be particularly interesting. Search [...]

As the population continues to become more online savvy, spammers need to get even more creative to get past filters and moderators. My personal favorite approach lately has been the flattering spam. It’s a psychologically potent tack – they’re going straight for the blog writer’s ego, saying things kind enough to make the moderator pause [...]

One of the big stories from last week is that Walmart.com is testing Walmart To Go, enabling consumers in its San Jose, CA test market to buy groceries online. While Wal-Mart has offered a similar service in the past, this is the first time they’re giving consumers the option of buying fresh foods (produce and [...]

Sitting around the TV with my family on Thanksgiving this year, I noticed a trend: While the football games buzzed from the flat screen, instead of asking to change the channel or playing cards or playing with the dogs, my sisters sat on the couch with their laptops and shopped. One was looking for advance [...]

More and more shoppers are turning to social media sources before they make their holiday purchases in 2009. This step seems like a logical progression with the ever expanding online marketplace using Twitter and Facebook to communicate with their customer base, but the changes from last year to this year are more leaps and bounds [...]

Google search is going real-time. You knew it was coming as social networking sites began peppering the top search results pages and Bing struck a deal with Twitter and Facebook to go real time, but on those familiar white search pages, there was still a delay. News stories appear nearly immediately, like Michael Jackson’s death [...]

I know we haven’t been posting much lately but, busy bees that we are, we just sort of fell off the boat when it comes to regular postings. Apologies. Anyway, I just wanted to post a quick aside about the 3 Wolf Tee meme that has made it off the internet and into the mainstream [...]

So Radiohead’s new release “In Rainbows” is apparently going to revolutionize the way music is distributed, the way bands make money, what record companies can really do to save themselves from torrent sites, blah, blah, blah, but a huge issue that has arisen since the release is how fans are reacting to the download provided. [...]

The Web is growing up. Casting off the shackles of spam, black-hat SEO practices, and exploitation of Google loopholes in 1.0; 2.0 marketing practices have matured and become an interconnected system linking customers and marketers in completely new ways. The prolific blogosphere and sites like YouTube, Digg, myspace, Wikipedia and other social media sources have [...]