Of search, bird sex and a remarkably fast journey of becoming a verb.

When someone introduces a useless idea (or one that is narrow in scope) on the Internet, it gets linked, picked, praised, talked about till the transformation from a phenomena to sheer bullshit is complete.
I am taking about Wolfram Alpha. Because among other places, it has been talked about here , here and here.
I have heard [...]

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Long copy banner ads – are we going to see more of them?

In one afternoon, I happen to come across two distinct banner ads which sparked my curiosity. The idea of long copy banner ads. For decades the conventional wisdom has been that long copy is dead. But as the Internet rolls on into a new version every quarter, will it become the default destination for long [...]

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Whatever dot whatever

The Internet gets interesting. Icann has decided to open by domain names beyond the standard .com and .org to everything.
As NYT reports…’New names could cover locations such as “.nyc” and “.berlin” or industries such as “.bank.”
What does this mean for advertising? BBC narrows it down to a simple point…’The decision means that companies could turn [...]

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Every Website is a Socialsite.

Presenting Friend Connect from Google. It’s the latest tool that will turn any website into a social website by enabling interactions amongst the visitors. As the press release explains…
“Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this [...]

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LOLanguage

Nerd jokes have become the official mainstream humor. Recently, MIT had it’s first ROFLCon where you could find who’s who of the Internet and accidents masters of the viral world.
In a previous post, I sort of lamented about the silliness of Internet memes and was hoping it will evolve beyond the trivial. But it seems [...]

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