When you think of a High Tech Media company, the name Hallmark doesn’t normally come to mind.
However, this Valentines day, you might just change your toon…
Hallmark will be offering new Web Based Augmented reality greeting cards for Valentines day!
Video of the technology after the jump.
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to an audience at the TechCrunch Crunchie awards about privacy and their descision to automatically make all content open and publicly available by default.
His statement and reasoning is that privacy is no longer a “social norm”. Essentially that we should assume everything we say and do will be made publicaly available.
Bullshit.
This is an all-out lie, plain and simple.
The reasoning for Facebook to open up their content – and actually their users content – to the public is about money and nothing else.
Most people are creatures of habit. Just look at almost any Analytics report now days and you’ll still see that around 20% of most “average” web visitors still use Internet Explorer 6… a browser that was released in 2001 and is EXTREMELY out of date.
So, in an effort to change some of my own habits and try something new, I decided to try setting my default browser from Internet Explorer 8 to Google Chrome.
The following paragraphs are a few of my observations on the browser and how well it performs in everyday environments.
RSS and Email subscriptions are great ways to improve the traffic and brand recognition of your web site or blog. However, few site owners know of a simple UI tweak that can make a HUGE difference in your subscription rates.
Simply change “Subscribe” to “Get Updates“
It came to light today that Twitter is in talks with Google and Microsoft (and by default, Yahoo!) that would allow open access to Twitter’s Data feed.
The aparent non-exclusive deal that Twitter is signing would allow the Search Engine Heavyweights to display and monetize twitter results along side of regular search engine results.
This is an absolute brilliant move by Twitter on multiple fronts; Establishing a foothold in the “real time” search realm, monetizing their extremely popular service, and also reducing future possible development costs.
In the month’s since Microsoft’s launch of their new search engine Bing.com, much has been said about it’s amazing market share growth.
Some even proclaiming a 10% market grab since it’s launch.
However, much of that is smoke in mirrors and not “real” traffic…
This has been stirring up some controversy lately in and around the journalism field over the past few days.
The Internet Manifesto – How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
What originally started as small declaration by a few German bloggers has recently been translated into English and several other languages and has quickly turned into the front line of the fight between “traditional” journalism and the web.
Since I work in both the print and the web side of this issue, it’s interesting to see how these declarations play out from both perspectives.
It seems lately that on almost a weekly basis I get asked or overhear someone talking about how they don’t understand what the all fuss is about Twitter.
At first Glance, this is a rather obvious and understandable statement. After all, what can you REALLY do with 140 characters? Just take a look at this article on CNN Money as a perfect example of this mis-understanding.
The problem is that people are viewing Twitter at face value… a free, easy to use service that asks the simple question - ”What are you doing?” – in 140 characters or less.
But wait… did you catch that? Those four little words in the previous sentence:
I really don’t know who mr. Internet is… or if there really is such a thing. I tend to think of him (at least in my mind) as the wizard behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
But, unlike the Wiz’, I’m not asking him for a heart, for courage, or for a brain… I’m asking him to kill, murder, all around X-Out Internet Explorer 6.
It was born in 2001, lived a good live… but it has since been replaced by Internet Explorer 7 and 8. So, it’s time to put it to pasture or… frankly, just put a bullet in it’s source code and be over with it.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of articles on, about, or around Twitter. Most of them have to do with the communication side of things.
It is a change-agent to the way we communicate and consume information from person-to-person.
However, what most people don’t realize is Twitter’s real future, may lie in search… in one form or another. More info after the jump.
