Last week brought the “announcements” that the Providence Journal thinking about possibly monetizing it’s content and that Twitter is probably going to offer a paid business account soonish that would offer analytics. A sign of the economic times or a factor of inevitability… In an interview Jonathan Fildes for BBC News, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone [...]
My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe
Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I [...]
November 10, 2009
Categories: Strategis, facebook, newspapers, twitter . Tags: Adam Cupples, Boston Globe, facebook, newspapers, twitter . Author: strategisadv . Comments: 1 Comment
APPLE TRIES TO KILL STEVE JOBS STORY IN SUNDAY TIMES
“Apple hates personality stuff and press intrusion. ‘We want to discourage profiles’. Strong words from an Apple PR. Apparently Apple didn’t want the Sunday Times to publish the 4000 word plus profile for the fact that it may reveal more about jobs past, present, and future than the company is willing to disclose. I think [...]
August 19, 2009
Categories: Media, newspapers, social media, social responsibility . Tags: apple, Cover, Kyle Goggans, Steve Jobs, Story, Sunday Times . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Facebook – Short & Sweet
So Facebook has ‘accidentally’ disclosed that it has plans for a new site, dubbed Facebook lite. Unlike the current Facebook site, Facebook lite offers users a simplified, no-frills Facebook experience – eerily similar to Twitter, Facebooks biggest competitor. But Facebook claims that its new chip-off-the-old-block is merely the manifestation of a solution to many worldwide [...]
August 12, 2009
Categories: Media, facebook, newspapers, social media, twitter . Tags: facebook, Facebook lite, Kyle Goggans, leaked, news, social media, social networks . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Wanted: New Internet Homepage
Wanted: New Internet Homepage For years my browser’s homepage has been http://www.boston.com/. Well not any more after reading this article The Boston Globe will soon begin charging for its website, publisher P. Steven Ainsley told the paper’s union bosses. What will I do? Where will I find my news? (insert sarcasm here) I used to get [...]
August 8, 2009
Categories: Advertising, newspapers, social media, twitter . Tags: Adam Cupples, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, newspapers, social media, twitter . Author: strategisadv . Comments: 4 Comments
IE6 No More?
The campaign asks sites to include code that detects IE6 visitors and encourages them to upgrade to Firefox, IE8, or Google Chrome. On Tuesday the movement composed of around a dozen sites, today that number exceeds 70 participants. The sites jumping on board are by no means insignificant: they include established internet startups, consulting firms [...]
August 7, 2009
Categories: Blog, Google, Media, Strategis, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: campagin, internet explore, Kyle Goggans, social media . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Google Buys Web Video Software Firm
Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a [...]
August 6, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Google, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: Google, Kyle Goggans, merge, on2, search . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
FledgeWing – the LinkedIn For College Students
No ambitious young person wants to wait until graduation to start working on projects, developing ideas, and building teams. As a case in point, consider how many success stories from the dotcom and Web 2.0 eras have begun with brilliant twenty-somethings dropping out of college to pursue their passions. Speaking directly to this concern (or [...]
August 5, 2009
Categories: Blog, Media, Strategis, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: college, FledgeWing, Kyle Goggans, Sites, social networking . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
If you can’t beat ‘em, join your next biggest Compeditor, THEN beat ‘em!
In an industry dominated by one company – Google, trying to take some of that market share from the heavy hitter is not always as easy as it may seem. After Microsoft’s failed attempt at buying Yahoo’s search engine for a reported 47.5 Billion dollars, the two have decided to create a partnership that will [...]
July 29, 2009
Categories: Blog, Google, Media, newspapers, search, social media . Tags: Buy out, Google, Kyle Goggans, microsoft, news, search engine, Yahoo . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Jackson’s death a homicide?
Yesterday members of the Drug Enforcement Administration and LAPD obtained a warrant permitting the search of Michael Jackson’s most recent doctor’s (Dr. Conrad Murray of Huston) office. During the search, which was officially documented as for the purpose of obtaining evidence that may suggest that the offense of manslaughter was committed at the time of [...]
July 23, 2009
Categories: Media, newspapers, social media . Tags: Kyle Goggans, michael jackson, news . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
