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March 22nd, 2012 by
David
There are a number of ways to try to make money off the Internet. However, the study of analytics is becoming a big business for those who want to generate revenue from their websites. Analytics is a study of both website content and visitor traffic patterns. The big analytic programs, like Google analytics and Gnip, rely upon vast amounts of data and trends to provide the content providers of websites with the tools they need to monetize their site most effectively. One of the emerging analytics sites on the Internet is Yieldbot. The daunting task of creating their analytical tools falls to Soren Macbeth.
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March 22nd, 2012 by
David
As mobile computing devices like smartphones and tablet computers begin to dominate the electronics market, an entire generation of media enthusiasts is being marginalized. The consumers who popularize listening to music on mp3 players and watching movies on tiny screens streamed from The Cloud are eroding the high standards producers of movies, music and quality television have when they pour their hearts into their work. Fortunately, there are still those who are interested in immersing themselves in great music or the full movie experience. For those consumers, there are giant-screen high definition televisions and Blu-Ray players. For their sound system, there is the Bowers & Wilkins MT-60D Mini Theatre System.
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March 21st, 2012 by
David
Any number of good ideas will fail when you do not have the right people in place to execute them. As online advertising becomes increasingly competitive, Spongecell CEO Ben Kartzman knew that in order to compete with giants like Amazon and Google’s Adsense, he needed a staff that was both creative and could execute complex ideas. For the computer proficiency Spongecell needed to compete in a very tight market, Kartzman turned to Blythe Dunham!
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March 21st, 2012 by
David
It was not too long ago that webcams were a novelty. Well before they were made standard equipment on virtually every laptop computer, webcams were a separate peripheral that allowed computer users to stream record and transmit small movies. Even now webcams are a fun accessory for PCs and having an external webcam may offer you more versatility than the one embedded in your monitor or laptop computer. For those who want more webcam options, it is hard to do better than the new Hercules HD Twist!
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March 20th, 2012 by
David
There are a number of emerging online and mobile phone payment companies. No longer is the whole of the Internet beholden to PayPal for fast, secure, on-line payments. In addition to emerging mobile phone payment companies Square and Dwolla, there is Boku. If you haven’t heard of Boku, yet, that is not a surprise; it is still fairly new. But David Yoo is determined to make Boku a household name!
David Yoo is the Senior Vice President of Strategy, Product and Marketing for Boku. In that role, David Yoo is raising brand recognition and spending a great deal of time informing potential customers about the services that Boku offers. As Boku breaks into the rapidly expanding online and mobile payment market, it is David Yoo’s job to help Boku rise above the pack. So far, Yoo’s efforts have helped to net more investment from Silicon Valley investors and the launch of a multimedia advertising campaign.
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March 20th, 2012 by
David
Social networks rise and fall lately with a frequency that is troubling for those who become invested in the new social networks appearing on the Internet. Each Internet social network tries to appeal to a different niche audience and it is intriguing to see which ones take off and which ones fail to find their market fast enough. Arguably the hottest new Internet social network is Pinterest and if you haven’t heard of it yet, it begs the question “where have you been?!” Pinterest has been making quite a lot of news on its own and as a reference – in articles about other up-and-coming Internet social networks – lately.
Pinterest is a budding social network that is most analogous to Twitter combined with StumbleUpon . . . for online photographs. Let’s untangle that, shall we? Twitter only allows 140 characters; the whole point of the social network or messaging service is to provide quick blurbs to your followers to give them instantaneous status updates. They are short, focused and not often all that useful. In a similar fashion, your Pinterest page – which is imagined as a bulletin board upon which you and your friends “pin” digital images – is likely to become a cluttered, messy space as you and your friends find more images to pin. The sense of activity and networking is represented by your friends being able to comment on every image you post.
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March 19th, 2012 by
David
It is absolutely astonishing to see how fast a social network can rise on the Internet. It seems like Internet social networks fall much, much slower than they rise – one need only look at the slow fading of MySpace to recall how they might linger – but when a new social network is a hit, it can come out of nowhere. That is the story of Pinterest. Pinterest may not be a household name yet, but the little social network had about one third the traffic of Twitter in January 2012, making it a sudden force in the social network market. With such a sudden demand for its service, Pinterest has a great reliance on Aubrey Obata Kendall.
Aubrey Obata Kendall is the chief recruiter for Pinterest. Since November of 2011, Kendall has been staffing up Pinterest in order to help the small company grow to meet the current and forthcoming demand for their services. Because Pinterest is currently so small, the recruiting position is especially important to the company. Aubrey Obata Kendall’s judgment on staff may well affect the course of the entire company, so the reliance Pinterest has on her is actually quite high.
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March 19th, 2012 by
David
No matter how convenient mobile computers and streaming technology are, there is nothing that enhances a movie viewing experience like seeing it on a big screen. In fact, watching pretty much anything is improved by seeing it on a color-rich, high definition, high-resolution, giant screen. Directors and producers produce their works to make them look good when they are big, so why do so many people obsess on crowding around tiny mobile devices to watch things? With the Amzer Micro HDMI To HDMI Cable, you no longer have to!
The Amzer Micro HDMI To HDMI Cable is a beautiful and durable basic connector. What can make a connector beautiful? For true high-definition transfers, your connectors need to be gold and the Amzer Micro HDMI To HDMI Cable has stylish and functional gold plating for the connectors and the leads. The gold offsets the standard black cable very nicely, so the word “beautiful” certainly applies to this cable.
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March 18th, 2012 by
David
In the quest to make digital music a viable business endeavor instead of just a cool idea, there have been many businesses and websites that have already come and gone. While digital music pirating has been a huge issue for most of the services that have failed, rapidly changing hardware has been a serious issue as well. One quarter, the dominant digital music device is an MP3 player, the next it is a smartphone! Failure to adapt the digital music service to the new technologies has sunk some of the digital music services distributing digital music files over the Internet. Spotify is deeply invested in making sure that does not happen. For that, they have Oskar Stal!
Oskar Stal is the Chief Technology Officer of digital music distributor Spotify. As Spotify developed as a website, but prepared to take its service international, the company sought a CTO who had extensive experience with mobile operating systems. Without a CTO who knew the ins and outs of various mobile platforms, Spotify could not take their business to the next level. Having been employed at mBlox, a company deeply invested in mobile transactions and the technical interactions between mobile platforms, Oskar Stal rose to the top of Spotify’s list of desirable candidates for the position.
Oskar Stal’s resume is more extensive than simply working for mBlox, though spending eight years as the Director of Development in the technical department at that company was the weightiest factor in Spotify hiring him. Fortunately for Spotify, Stal was exceptionally interested in the position; he was already impressed by how much Spotify had accomplished without someone as experienced at the top of their development branch!
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March 18th, 2012 by
David
In the first blog in this series, we discussed how tablets came to be what they are now. In the second, we talked about the release of the iPad. Now, we should focus on the last two years and the forward leaps tablets have made in that time. Since Apple released the iPad, the market has seen dozens of other models come around and, in some cases, go away again.
The same year Apple released the iPad, the Samsung released the Galaxy Tab and Dell released the Streak. Less than a year later, Apple upgraded to the iPad2. During that time, various companies released over 80 other tablets. However, many of those tablets have not sold as well as the manufacturers might like. Apple’s iPad2 is still the tablet of choice for many consumers.
Most recently, Amazon.com released its own tablet. The Kindle Fire sells for only $199, a third of the price of most other tablets, including the iPad2. The Kindle Fire has a large shopping base in its maker, Amazon, and looks to be a good option for those on a budget. Many people were impressed by the Kindle Fire’s lack of mobile computer support issues at its release. A large number of other tablets required updates as soon as they were purchased because the companies hurried to release a product that was not entirely ready, in the wake of the iPad release.
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