Twitter has crafted a new design featuring scrolling Tweets (no need to click "more"), ability to embed photos and videos, a details pane that shows "additional details."
"Mini profiles" allow users to click a username to see a mini profile without navigating from the page, which provides quick access to account information, including bio and recent Tweets.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
New Twitter Design and Features Launched
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Verizon Introduces "Computing as Service" for Smaller Businesses
Boosting bandwidth, adding more servers and turning up additional storage capacity to meet changing business needs quickly are among the many things small and medium-sized businesses now can do affordably with Verizon's new cloud computing offering, "Computing as a Service, SMB," that can be billed on a credit card.
Verizon's new offering is tailored to companies that have limited IT resources and do not want to own or manage their IT infrastructure. "CaaS SMB" is suited to smaller businesses such as retailers, manufacturers and professional services firms as well as independent departments within larger organizations, Verizon says. It also appeals to online businesses and application developers who want to code, test and stage in a reliable and scalable cloud environment. All that's needed to get started is a credit card.
With Verizon CaaS SMB, customers can customize the server, storage and network resources required to manage a Web presence or enable company applications. Unlike many other available cloud offerings, Verizon CaaS SMB offers built-in security including virtual private networks while allowing companies to add more security features. CaaS SMB also lets companies retain previous computing configurations of their data and servers so data can be easily accessed in the future.
Verizon's new offering is tailored to companies that have limited IT resources and do not want to own or manage their IT infrastructure. "CaaS SMB" is suited to smaller businesses such as retailers, manufacturers and professional services firms as well as independent departments within larger organizations, Verizon says. It also appeals to online businesses and application developers who want to code, test and stage in a reliable and scalable cloud environment. All that's needed to get started is a credit card.
With Verizon CaaS SMB, customers can customize the server, storage and network resources required to manage a Web presence or enable company applications. Unlike many other available cloud offerings, Verizon CaaS SMB offers built-in security including virtual private networks while allowing companies to add more security features. CaaS SMB also lets companies retain previous computing configurations of their data and servers so data can be easily accessed in the future.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Anchor Text Loses SEO Influence with Google
Using and repeating "Anchor text" used to be one of the top ways search engine optimizers would suggest writers position their text for higher rankings by Google.
But SEO changes all the time, and anchor text might not be as important as it once was. One of the main factors now is getting more links to your domain as a whole, not just the homepage, you need to show Google that you have a whole range of pages that are worth visiting, a domain filled with worthwhile material that is liked and referenced by as many people as possible, one analyst suggests.
In order to benefit you need to get links from as many different unique domains as possible. Some of us might think that an improvement. Instead of SEO "tricks," just do a better job with a site's content.
In order to benefit you need to get links from as many different unique domains as possible. Some of us might think that an improvement. Instead of SEO "tricks," just do a better job with a site's content.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Why Social Now Matters
Why the rush to get into social networking, social media and social ecosystems?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Why T-Mobile is Sprint's best hope
As much as the notion of a T-Mobile USA merger with Sprint has been bandied about and criticized, the ways the two competitors might work together has taken a new tack of late as T-Mobile USA looks for a 4G partner and Clearwire, majority owned by Sprint, looks for expansion capital.
Sprint seems conflicted about allowing T-Mobile USA to become an investor in Clearwire. But such a move would have obvious benefits and some strategic issues as well.
Over time, both firms will probably need to consider bulking up in some way to compete more effectively with Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Getting both carriers on a common LTE platform would solve some important practical issues longer term.
In the nearer term, a T-Mobile USA investment in Clearwire would help both firms in obvious ways.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Text Campaigns are About Immediacy, Email Less So, Exec Says
Immediacy is what differentiates text message marketing from its email counterpart, according to an ExactTarget executive.
While the two channels are complementary ones that should tie together in multichannel campaigns, the campaign that simply mimics an email strategy in mobile will fail.
While the two channels are complementary ones that should tie together in multichannel campaigns, the campaign that simply mimics an email strategy in mobile will fail.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
National Mall Gets Free Wi-Fi
The District of Columbia has launched Wi-Fi along the National Mall.
The new free, wireless hotspots from the project "DC Wi-fi" cover the mall from 3rd Street on the east to 14th Street on the west.
The new free, wireless hotspots from the project "DC Wi-fi" cover the mall from 3rd Street on the east to 14th Street on the west.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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