Winning Online

In the Wall Street Journal this morning, there is this:
Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its sites — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of […]

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Let’s face it: we all Google our names every once in a while.  And it’s sometimes like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates where at times you don’t know what (results) you’re going to get.  We had a potential client a while back who wanted to procure our services in Search Engine Optimization to help “push […]

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The New York Times wrote a nice piece on Twitter, the ubiquitous social application being used by everyone for everything.  At first, I felt “tweeting” was a little silly and at a 140-character limit, not something most people would want to be reading.  Plus, Facebook already had status updates.  It was essentially the same thing, and […]

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Today, Barack Obama held a town hall meeting - online.  The President accepted questions through Whitehouse.gov - which has been updated for the times in an almost bloglike fashion - and streamed the meeting through a video channel on the site.  Further interaction was set up so that users could vote on the questions submitted.  […]

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By Matthew McQueeny�
I am impatient.  And I think technology made me that way.
 If I don’t have an answer to something - anything - I look to rectify that very quickly.  Thanks to Google and search engines, answers and all the world’s knowledge - well, most of it - are right at your fingertips.  Add to […]

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My background is online news and, believe it or not, I occasionally miss the pressure of the deadline-every-second atmosphere of the newsroom. That’s why I think it’s kind of fun when a client has an incredibly short turnaround time to get a Web site up and functioning.
We had that experience this month. A client needed […]

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Two members from our Winning Strategies ITS team - myself being one of them - went over to a search engine marketing seminar today at the Gateway Center in downtown Newark, NJ, a virtual stone’s throw (that is, if you’re George Washington) from our offices.  Picked up a few new pointers and reaffirmed much of […]

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On Wednesday, Google launched its online-publishing service that, at face, is a potential competitor to Wikipedia.org, the highly-trafficked and ubiquitous user-generated reference Web site.�
This is all quite top of mind, as Wikipedia has become yet another spot to monitor for our clients.  Those in the public eye can easily have an entry pop up at a […]

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Facebook, the super-popular social networking site, underwent a bit of a facelift this week.  The site, which began as a sort of online college-specific community tool, has made some, in look, subtle changes.  Navigation is more user-friendly and logical, there are not overburdening “apps” - third party applications - overtaking profiles and internal pages and […]

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That is the question.  And for Macrumors.com’s Arnold Kim, he chose blogging.�
The New York Times did an interesting article on Kim and about how his hobby Web site in which he wrote about Apple rumors - while simultaneously becoming a doctor - turned into his actual calling.  In it are the ways that he can sustain […]

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