What comes to mind when you hear the word blog?  Is it a bunch of words on a web page, ideally expressing a message of some sort to the reader?  That is what many people first think of when they hear this word, and, initially, this is what many first time blogs are comprised of.  [...]

When people use search engines, what are they mainly looking for? Is it products to buy, people to meet, or what? Yes, people look for all of those things, but what most people are looking for when they use search engines is information. And if you are not using the power of [...]

If you would like an example of business blogging done right, you need not look any further than Southwest Airlines. Not shy to dip into the technology, they offered their customers a widget back in 2005. (We talk about widgets here and here). You may have had experience with it. Placed on your desktop, it [...]

Blog Marketing tips? Well, we have lots of them.
We gave you some on Tuesday. Here are a few more that experience has taught us work well for us:
Depending upon the business, complexity, and ad opportunities, blogs vary in size and approach when devising successful blog marketing. You can advertise directly on a blog that appeals [...]

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]

A new site, started by Chris Nolan, Kweschuns & Answers, is beginning in stealth mode, much like Sphere and other startups that aren’t quite ready. 
While not really giving information out to the public, this landing page, that takes an email address, offers the company buzz, while not really divulging secrets.
It’s a great way to [...]

Imagine being able to search your desktop from your mobile phone, just like Google Desktop.  Now, imagine that capability was free.  SoonR promises to marry phone search to your home, and they promise the service will soon be a reality.
The service works on slower phones, but works really well in 3g.  Om Malik looked more indepth.  His [...]

John Battelle’s Searchblog has a review of the not-yet-released blog search engine, Sphere.  Look out Technorati and IceRocket, this one may be the one to beat. 
On the heels of last week’s release of gada.be, Sphere shows much promise in the blog search area.  John found:
Tony forwarded me early research his company has done which [...]