March 10, 2010
There’s good news for online retailers: Forrester is predicting a 10% growth rate for you guys!
In fact, online sales will increase from $173 billion this year to a healthy $249 billion in 2014. Along with that growth comes a nice bump in online retail’s share of all US retail sales: up from 6% to 8% [...]
March 10, 2010
Have you heard of the Streisand effect?
Long story short, in 2003 Barbra Streisand sued a photographer for $50 million because he took photos of her home. She said the photographs invaded her privacy. Unfortunately for her, the rest of the world had no clue of the existence of these photographs until after she filed the [...]
March 10, 2010
Social media or networking or whatever it is you want to call it continues to grow at exponential rates of speed. With the “announcement” of Facebook getting its own location based service in place the concerns over privacy and safety of information continue to grow as well. Twitter realizes this concern and is working to [...]
March 10, 2010
Facebook is going to be joining the frenzy to help everyone not only know what people are thinking but also where they are thinking it. As we move more toward a world of this total view of another’s life you can be sure that Facebook wants to be involved. With the rising popularity of Foursquare, [...]
March 9, 2010
Unlike last time, there’ll be no snafu about whether the time is right to reveal the new MSN Homepage–it’s now officially live for all.
New features include:
TrendWatch – Highlights the day’s top trends and movers on Twitter
Hyper-local Tweets – Uses the power of Bing to highlight tweets from your location, available on the new Local Edition
My [...]