The personal information of over 100 million Facebook users has been gathered and published online, according to MSNBC. Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, used code to scan the 500 million existing Facebook profiles and gathered all the information that was not protected by privacy settings. Bowes then create a downloadable file and posted it [...]
July 29, 2010
Categories: Strategis, facebook, search . Tags: facebook, search, susana gutierrez . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Scoops Here. My colleague stumbled upon this post that I thought would be worthy of breaking news in Scoops world, even when taken with a grain of salt. Robert Scoble posted yesterday about shift away from SEO in regards to small business marketing. His reason–Because Google and Bing keep changing the rules so frequently, that they [...]
December 17, 2009
Categories: Bing, Google, Yahoo, search . Tags: Haris Zorlak, Kristin Braga, Scoops, SEM, SEO . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Scoops Here. Google’s development team has done it again, and this time it is personal. No really, it is. Just a few short days ago Google Labs released Social Search. Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user’s own social network have [...]
October 29, 2009
Categories: Google, Strategis, search, social media . Tags: Google Labs, Kristin Braga, Scoops, Social Search, socialmedalites . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
I stumbled across this site and thought it had a great point of difference. Instead of just answering a question like “How many Twitter accounts are there?” they drill deeper and answer the question, “What are the profile of Twitter users?” They do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best [...]
October 23, 2009
Categories: search . Tags: George Irish, online media, search, Strategis . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
When it comes to online money making opportunities, Google tends to be the first with its hand in the cookie jar. Leading the way as a search engine icon, Google has just announced its newest endeavourer—tapping in to the music industry and launching an online music search service. As in-store sales continue to plunge and [...]
October 22, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Google, Media, Strategis, search . Tags: Advertising, Angela Belanger, Google, Music, MySpace, search, Strategis . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Scoops Here. Bored today? Inspired to learn about something new? Your prayers have been answered with Goby. Not just known for having the cutest dag gone fish out there, it is highlighted in Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights unique startups. So here is the skinny on Goby…it is a search engine focused on exploring [...]
October 13, 2009
Categories: Mashable, search . Tags: Goby, Kristin Braga, Scoops, search, search engine, travel . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Scoops and Devil’s Advocate Here. For the sake of neutrality and fairness. I will have to put my love for Google aside and discuss the reasons why many are taking the plunge with Bing. This is not all too surprising see that Nielsen reports shows that it currently holds 10.7% of the search market (to [...]
September 21, 2009
Categories: Strategis, Top Five, search, social media . Tags: Bing, Google, Kristin Braga, Scoops, social media . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here are a few fast Facts from the Intranet 2.0 Global Survey Report: Out of organizations who have began there social media endevors, 46% have spent $10,000 or less, 35% have spent between $10,000 and $100,00; and 19% have spent $100,000 or more. Remember these numbers represent organizations of all sizes. The sample found that [...]
August 19, 2009
Categories: Blog, Media, economy, search, social media . Tags: informational, Kyle Goggans, Numbers, Report, social media, Stats . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
As Facebook balloons to over 250 million users, many voice their appreciation for Facebook’s small social network feel. Unlike its so-last-year counterpart, MySpace, Facebook has successfully maintained a very personal feel, finding hundreds of ways to link the most relevant people, in the most relevant ways. Even so, because Facebook has so many interesting people, useful [...]
August 13, 2009
Categories: facebook, search . Tags: facebook, improve, Kyle Goggans, search . Author: strategisadv . Comments: Leave a Comment
