Influx

Quentin Hardy over at Forbes has a very good piece on Google- where he looks to the company for the new rules of innovation. Here are some of the key points I took away from the piece. 1. It’s very tough to plan ahead For a company with so much intelligence, on the surface it comes as a...

We new speed was now of the essence concerning news media, but it’s not just speed, it’s also the quantity of stories that now matter. For the major online players, there’s an urgent need to flood the web with content, just to make sure your site gets the traffic it needs to stay...

"On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. Now it's got 3D, now it's got 1080p, you know, it'll be 4K in a couple of years, which is ultra-ultra-high-def. With the Internet, the decoders are very flexible, so you can just keep making it better and...

Netbase is one of dozens of companies that measure social media. They out together a handy graphic to measure what they define as "brand passion" based out of social conversations.What's interesting to see in the tech space is how not unexpectedly, Apple and Twitter dominate the passion zone and to...

Google knows the future is about monetizing the power of people's social network. They know that personal recommendations are highly trusted and valuable to users, but they also know Facebook has a stranglehold on this space, but as of today, they trying to get a tiny piece of the potential pie...

Corporate America's response to CSR has mainly been one fueled by obligation to either regulators or grassroots organizations. It's something that's pursued on the sidelines of business and very rarely in-step or integrated with the corporate mission and certainly isn't part of revenue...

Google is facing a real problem with ubiquity, while to those inside the company might feel under threat from Facebook, by playing defense they're on a fast-track to even greater ubiquity with Android, etc. Google's plan for little blue links to appear wherever possible is no secret, but the...

There was a time when independent movies and music occupied a niche, it was the world that wasn't part of the mainstream and it was where you went to look to find the cool stuff. Sometime around the mid-90s all that changed and independent became mass. The same thing is happening in the world...

Google is now facing a number of challenges from multiple directions and perhaps as a response, its homepage has recently gone through a radical re-design, but it's clear this wasn't a simple process to get there. The company tested multiple versions of the page with employees, consumers in lab...

With such a premium being placed on the innovation and inventing the new and never before seen, it sometimes pays to take a look at how what currently exists can be re-shaped or re-formed to create a new use.A fantastic example of this is Recorded Future, a company that uses some smart search tools...

It's pretty easy these days to ignore the effort and investment required to convert consumers who are currently outside specific marketplaces. With budget cut backs and a focus on immediate sales, it makes sense that the lowest hanging fruit are the priority. However, if a brand wants to grow it...

Twitter just released its list of leading trending topics for 2009. Taking a look at the technology list and its surprising to see Google Wave topping the list and the Palm Pre come in at no6. While both these products generated conversation, they can hardly be called massive successes. It goes to...

The Redmond giant seems to have Google firmly in its sights as it looks at developing its business over the next few years. It's Bing search engine seems to have done something none of Google's rivals have managed to do and appears to have traction. It will be interesting to see if it can maintain...

"Google -- I mean, the harsh way of just defining it, Google devalues everything it touches. Google is great for Google, but it's terrible for content providers, because it divides that content quantitatively rather than qualitatively. And if you are going to get people to pay for content, you have...

When Obama spoke, people listened and Google's search volume declined.Posted by Ed Cotton