Google Buzz Privacy – Fast Friday Fact

by: George Bounacos February 12, 2010

Yes, you’ve been buzzed.  We all have.

The way that Facebook’s Beacon project or Amazon’s long ago Buying Circles shredded another layer of privacy.   Using Buzz it’s deceptively simple to share a private email address with a group of people.  Part of that is tied into the use of what is fast becoming an Internet [...]

Google Buzzes Facebook

by: George Bounacos February 9, 2010

The search company rolls out more social media features as it moves from its core competency. What’s the buzz about Google Buzz?

Searching Now Influenced By Your Friends

by: George Bounacos January 28, 2010

What your friends and family do on the Internet will soon shape the results Google gives you. Here’s why that’s bad.

10 Google Chrome Extensions Still Installed

by: George Bounacos December 14, 2009

Geeks old enough to remember using MS-DOS will undoubtedly remember the feeling of automating their bootup programs using a batch file. Around the same time that Bill Gates muttering that 640K ought to be enough memory for anyone, those same geeks looked at each other and begin whittling down their batch files so there [...]

Stop Demanding High Rankings

by: George Bounacos November 2, 2009

I watched another potential lead go by today and decided not to purchase the information because the prospect was in a medium sized market.  Their sole criteria was that they wanted to rank in the top 3 spots for a certain local phrase.
It’s important that you as a small business don’ t make this mistake:  [...]

Fast Flip: Google’s Newsstand

by: George Bounacos October 6, 2009

I love magazine subscriptions.
I especially love free magazine subscriptions, but I love all sorts of print.   Magazines, newspapers, catalogs.   How many marketers do you know who still keep a copy of Famous Catalogs on their bookshelf between a PHP book and Robert Spector’s book about Amazon’s business model called Get Big Fast?
In a world [...]

Social Vibe – Fundraising with Attention

by: George Bounacos September 29, 2009

The rap on monetizing social media, especially for charity, is familiar.  People engage in social media to have fun, not receive a pitch.  And some of that is certainly true for any interruption-based advertising, much less untargeted advertising.
Facebook and social networks are new ad platforms, and we’ve never had scalable one to one efforts where [...]

5 Browser Tools To Use Daily

by: George Bounacos June 18, 2009

Five tools I use every day in my browser.

OfficeGossip Opens For Business – Fast Friday Fact

by: George Bounacos May 22, 2009

Searching for business gossip in social media just got easier.

Where’s The Party?

by: George Bounacos May 20, 2009

Social media is here to stay. The numbers don’t lie.