I couldn’t predict a company named Amazon would become the world’s biggest bookstore either. Or that a tweet would be anything more than the sound a bird makes. And though my skills as a modern day Nostradamus may be somewhat limited, there is one thing I know;
Bing is a silly name for a product.
For those of my readers ‘lucky’ enough to live in the Golden State of California, today marks a milestone in sales tax, when the CA state tax rate breaks the 10% ‘double digit’ boundary, to bring California near to the, or at the top of the ‘most taxed in the US‘ list. Part of the […]
Gmail was down this morning, and the end of world is obviously near. It’s good to finally have the “Gmasses” realize that Google is like any other company, prone to outages, failures as well as amazing success. Interesting note on human nature. People are protesting, tearing their hair out, and (as said in Australia) whinging […]
“Why are there the same gas station brands on two opposite corners of the street?”
There’s no apparent ‘closeness’ of websites in cyberspace. Sites, offering similar content, similar tools, or similar products may be located on servers on the other side of the world.
Search engines are no more!
As the algorithms and personalization through technology improves, “search engines” is no longer a term one can use to adequately explain what feeds our quest for information and content.
From my agency days springs the expression “Garbage in, garbage out” used in video and audio production meaning essentially, the best (audio / video product) quality comes from the best quality source material. Sure, you could hide the occasional aircraft noise in a perfect 20 minute interview, but you couldn’t get pristine out of an interview at […]
“Daddy?” Big 8-year old brown eyes accompany an innocent question, “What did you do before the Internet?” How do you answer such a straight forward question? Personally I lived, breathed, worked and generally did most of what I do now, with one big difference… far more of my day 15 years ago was spent in […]