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Google Buys Startup Wavii in Move to Boost Knowledge Graph
Apr 27th
Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million. Wavii, which uses natural language processing technology to distil online news into topics the users most care about, confirmed the news in a post on their website.
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Digital Marketing company SEO Traffic Lab move to larger regional offices – PR Web (press release)
Apr 8th
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Digital Marketing company SEO Traffic Lab move to larger regional offices
PR Web (press release) The dynamic team at SEO Traffic Lab have experienced rapid growth in the past year, following a series of client wins. The company has now expanded to such an extent, since it was established almost three years ago, that the whole team have now moved … |
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Mobile Marketing: Connecting With Your Audience on the Move
Mar 27th
How can brands use mobile marketing to engage with their users, deliver additional value, and foster brand loyalty with a holistic mobile approach? Leading experts from Medialets, ESPN Mobile, and Google share mobile opportunities and challenges.
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Bing Adds Site Move Tool to Webmaster Tools
Mar 18th
A new tool in Bing Webmaster Tools will help webmasters performing site moves. Whether you’re moving URL structure internally or changing your whole site address, the Site Move tool in Bing Webmaster Tools wants to help your site survive the move.
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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Site Move Tool
Mar 18th
Bing announced a new feature for Bing Webmaster Tools – the ability to inform Bing of a site move. The new Bing Site Move Tool allows you to not just move from one domain to another domain but also from within a site; URLs to URLs. Moving From Within The Same Domain Name If you [...]
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Flush With New Cash, Structured Data Engine FindTheBest Ready To Make Its Move
Mar 5th
It was unclear what to call FindTheBest when it first launched roughly two years ago: “anti-search engine,” “decision engine” or “comparison engine.” Today it may not matter. The company just raised $11 million and has 22 million monthly users. (The site has raised $17 million to…
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Flush With New Cash, Structured Data Engine FindTheBest Ready To Make It Move
Mar 5th
It was unclear what to call FindTheBest when it first launched roughly two years ago: “anti-search engine,” “decision engine” or “comparison engine.” Today it may not matter. The company just raised $11 million and has 22 million monthly users. (The site has raised $17 million to…
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Twitter Pulls the Posterous Plug: How to Move Your Content to WordPress
Feb 20th
If you have any sentimental attachments to your ramblings or photos on Posterous, you have a couple of months to save it or put it to use elsewhere. WordPress has made it easy to import all of your content that used to live on Posterous.
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Hotmail Users, It’s Time To Move To Outlook.com, Like It Or Not
Feb 19th
“OK, people, listen up. Seymour, pay attention. Elsie, turn on your hearing aid. It’s time to move your Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com. Hey! No, stop complaining. Don’t use that language, Ethel, it’s un-ladylike.”
Yes, the the time has come – the hundreds of millions of email users who are currently using Hotmail will be migrated over to Outlook.com by this summer, Microsoft said Tuesday. For many of Microsoft’s long-time customers, this will be their first experience with the Windows 8-styled “Metro” user interface that Microsoft is propagating around its properties.
(See also Outlook.com: Take A Tour Of Microsoft’s Hotmail Replacement.)
“We’ve been very excited by the adoption of the preview and how it’s delivering on our promise of a new, reimagined email service,” David Law, director of product management for Outlook.com, said in a blog post on Tuesday. “Throughout the preview, we learned a tremendous amount from seeing how people used the service. Early adopters have told us what they liked, what they’d like to see next, and what we needed to do to make more people switch. And we’ve used that to add new features and fine-tune the services to scale. Now that Outlook.com is coming out of preview, we’ll be kicking off a huge push across a number of countries around the world to drive even greater awareness and adoption of Outlook.com.”
Last July, Microsoft reworked its email system and unveiled Outlook.com, a beta of a dramatically improved email client that it said at the time would eventually replace Hotmail. The Windows 8 style “Metro makeovers” eventually reached SkyDrive, the new Office Web Apps, and a revamped MSN, among other Microsoft propertiess. Although Hotmail and Outlook.com share several elements – social connections to Twitter and Facebook, for example, and the ability to put rich media – including videos – within the client itself, Outlook.com is a bold reimagining of the Web email client in the Windows 8 vein.
The Dad Problem
The problem, unfortunately, is Dad.
My father, like many fathers, is a wonderful man. But even though he’s an engineer, he despises technology. He hated beepers. Cell phones. ATM cards. Computers. Since I convinced my mother that a DVR could record Oakland A’s games or St. Mary’s basketball games, they’ve added a (standard-definition) video recoreder, which collects dust under their 27-inch Sony Trinitron CRT television. To their credit, we were one of the early families to adopt the microwave, which still resides in our kitchen, waiting for me to reset the clock in the event of a power failure.
My father has an AOL account.
My father quite logically points out that he has no need for an additional email address, since that AOL account is now embedded deep in the list of contact of their friends. And, cheapskate that he is (a compliment, in our family) he quickly bailed out of AOL’s dialup service when a better ISP deal came along.
But there is no way on God’s green earth that my father wants Windows 8. He’s quite happy with Windows XP, thank you, which chugs along on his old Dell PC. I’m pretty sure he would still be on an ancient version of Internet Explorer had I not upgraded him for fear of him getting hacked.
No, my father does not have a Hotmail account, but I suspect that there are plenty of people just like him who do. Shifting from Hotmail to the Outlook.com environment is definitely going to blow some minds. I suspect that after glimpsing the Windows 8 style interface, some people may never venture upon the Internet again.
Easing The Transition?
I kid, of course.
Honestly, I’m sure some users will be blown away by the look and feel of Outlook.com, and the wealth of new features it offers. Some may even feel comfortable enough to upgrade their PCs to finally enter the 21st Century. And give credit where credit is due: Law and Microsoft are definitely trying to make the transition as easy as possible:
“Everything from their @hotmail.com email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vacation replies, etc. will stay the same, with no disruption in service,” Law wrote. “When upgraded, they’ll also get all the benefits from the redesigned Outlook.com experience – a fresh and intuitive user interface, lots of new features and better performance. And we won’t ever make you switch your email address to an @outlook.com address if you don’t want to.”
But when I read all that, I still can’t help but think of this quote:
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it,* and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you…” Abe Simpson, The Simpsons: “Homerpalooza”
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Facebook’s VoIP Service Proves ‘Move Fast And Break Things’ Mantra Won’t Fly For Mobile
Jan 17th
If you can’t keep up with Facebook’s identity crisis, you aren’t alone. After claiming over and over that it would get serious about mobile – and then debuting an entirely un-mobile product at a press conference earlier this week – the company is now tacking on one more feature to its collector’s set of mobile apps: free phone calls over the Internet.
The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, launched earlier for Canada, eschews traditional telecom carriers but will still count against your mobile data plan if you’re not on Wi-Fi. The feature is now available on Facebook’s dedicated Messenger iOS app, one of the single-purpose apps in the company’s increasingly cluttered mobile utility belt.
Yahoo Syndrome?
Facebook’s well-known “Move fast and break things” motto is well enough suited for the Web – but spewing out a flood of not quite fully baked ideas won’t work for mobile. The voice calling update is just the most recent example.
Mobile updates are user-initiated and deliberate by design. Even on a platform like Android with automatic updating enabled, downloading a mobile update feels like unwrapping a new, slightly less buggy present. But apps that constantly push tiny new updates quickly get annoying, even if they don’t require much more attention than a progress bar in a notification drop-down menu.
And redundant apps like Messenger and the main Facebook app? That’s just twice as many notifications to wrangle. Not to mention a confusing roadblock to the otherwise split-second choice of which app to open for a given task. Facebook’s sheer scope can be an Achilles heel: Facebook is big – look at all the stuff it does! It’s a Foursquare, and a Yelp and a Snapchat… and who knows what else. No wonder the company is struggling to define itself on mobile. It’s suffering from mobile Yahoo syndrome. As in, nobody knows what kind of company Yahoo is – least of all Yahoo.
The Department Of Redundancy Department
On the Web, we mostly don’t notice Facebook’s weekly waves of teensy product tweaks. The company’s hacker ethos shines in its perpetual tinkering and improvements. But on mobile the same approach can get messy – and it already has.
Facebook wants to have it both ways. It wants to mash stuff like search, messaging, photo sharing and check-ins up into a one-stop shop for its billion-plus members. But it also wants us to use its strange little umbrella of mobile apps and the main Facebook app – have your app and eat it too! The approach is confusing, the internal redundancies are piling up and Facebook’s mobile product strategy is starting to feel like a junk drawer. Everything you need is in there somewhere, but it’s a wreck and you can never seem to find the AAA batteries when you need them.
Do It Like Instagram
But you know who does mobile updates right?
Instagram.
When Instagram is primed for its tiny download progress bar to inch toward the right, users actually get excited. Updates are polished and cohesive, with just enough lag time between pushes to make Instagrammers water at the mouth while they wait for the bell to sound. If only Facebook would peer over the proverbial cubicle wall and steal a few notes from its billion-dollar baby.
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