When I first read on Niall Kennedy’s blog that Yahoo had released their Term Extraction API, I immediately thought, “Cool, if I can rig up a method of inserting the extracted terms into my blog posts, I can get all…

Back in late 2003, as I was coming on board at KRD, I was asked to do an analysis of the company’s current shopping offering vs. competitive offerings (newspapers, Amazon, etc), factoring in emergent shopping behaviors. While there were many…

Peter over at PC4Media left me a comment, and, posted the following over at his blog (trimmed down): “I’ve been reading Tony Gentile’s Buzzhit blog for a bit now. It is a good blog. Some good insight… However, every time…

Steve Rubel writes: “The first group are the mass marketers. This group craves safety, as the Wall Street Journal noted last month. They are skittish about advertising on blogs. As a result, they will gravitate towards teaming with the larger…

As it pertains to those with more than a trivial content consumption habit, this statement goes down in my book next to predictions like “six computers should be sufficient for all the world’s requirements”: “In a case of what Outsell…

On a bad press day for Blogger.com, Google magically appears on the scene to offer an AutoSave feature (something all platforms should offer). Cool (and thank you), that’s one less Blogger issue to deal with. Now about those availability, stability…

A little over a year ago, during Microsoft’s first big push of portable video players, Steve Jobs was widely derided for his lack of vision on the potential for video on mobile devices. Jobs was criticized again during the launch…

I haven’t been following SEM quite as closely as I used to, but I had an opportunity yesterday to talk with some savvy folks in the space and thought I’d pass along two companies that piqued my interest. The first…

Gloria Pan, Director of Communications at the Media Center, dropped me a note to let me know that they have two Fellowships available for their upcoming Mobility seminar: “Thanks to the generous support of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism…

Well, not nearly as big as the last rumor… but there’s been some buzz about town today that we’re likely to see an update to Google Maps tonight that includes a “Keyhole View” as an alternative to the standard Google…