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There’s a little bit of Google in most of us – Memeburn
Jun 6th
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There's a little bit of Google in most of us
Memeburn Google is a source of income through SEO. Google is in some way or another part of our lives. Google has brought order to the internet, and has allowed us to find things much faster and easier. The fact is that people use search engines for information … |
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Google Gives Everyone $10 to Try New Google Wallet…but There’s a Catch
May 27th
Google’s NFC-enabled mobile wallet was announced this morning in partnership with mobile operator Sprint, issuing bank Citi and payment network MasterCard. But did you know that you don’t have to be a Citi card holder to try the service? As it turns out, Google is also offering a free “virtual” card which you can load up with funds from any account. And to get you enthused about testing this new mobile payments technology, Google is giving everyone $10 for free to get started.
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Hey! Free Money!
According to the Google Wallet website, the Google Prepaid Card is a virtual credit card which you can fund with any of your existing credit card accounts. The funding source doesn’t have to be Citi, nor does it have to be a MasterCard. Instead, you’ll simply activate the preloaded prepaid card within the Wallet application to begin to use it. Because the Google Prepaid Card is virtual, you won’t receive a plastic card in the mail, explains Google.
And here’s the best part: Google will give you $10 for free just for activating its PrePaid Card. That means free money to spend at Google’s partners’ shops, a list that includes Peet’s Coffee, Subway, Walgreens, Toys R Us, American Eagle Outfitters, Foot Locker, Bloomingdale’s, The Container Store, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Jamba Juice, Guess, Macy’s, Walgreens and more. Plus, Google Wallet works at any MasterCard Paypass-enabled merchant, like CVS, Sports Authority, Jack in the Box, Sunoco and The Coca Cola Company (select vending machines).
Is There a Catch? Depends on How Creepy You Think Google is…
In all seriousness, if you’re wondering why Google is pushing Google Wallet so hard that it’s willing to hand out free cash, you have to understand Google’s core business. No, not search, silly! Advertising.
With a mobile payments system like Google Wallet, the company can track transactions all the way through from the first time a user clicks on an ad in Google’s search results to the time of checkout at the point-of-sale. It will also open up whole new forms of advertising, like geo-targeted ads based on your current location, offers that appear when you search for a local business through Google’s Yelp-like Google Places service, offers that appear when you search just for a business category (e.g., “lunch,” “drug store”), Groupon-like group-buying deals, offers that appear on store loyalty cards loaded into the Wallet service, offers available on physical signage, in-store displays, posters, NFC-enabled tags and more.
Google wants to tie all parts of the buying process together starting with the initial research (for larger purchases, perhaps) or the on-the-go queries performed on your mobile phone all the way to the end result – the merchant that gets your money. And it wants to keep track of your shopping habits and trends, so it can serve you even better ads. More targeted, highly personalized ads that are more likely to appeal to you, and you alone.
How very Minority Report.
In a way, this is type of narrowed down targeting isn’t all that different from what Facebook provides advertisers today – a way to direct a message to carefully selected and filtered members of the online population. For example, a Facebook advertiser could direct ads to all unmarried women aged 25-35 who live within 20 miles of New York. Google, on the other hand, will know you not only through your Google profile and use of its numerous other services, it will also know you in a way that may have even more appeal to some advertisers: where you spend, how much, how often, where you are now and what you’re trying to find. Sounds like a winning formula, and maybe a little creepy.
But that’s Google for you. As Chairman Eric Schmidt once said while CEO, “Google policy is to get right to the creepy line and not cross it.”
Did it succeed?
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Video: Content Farms Are Ruining the Earth’s Resources – There’s a Better Way
May 10th
According to Internet expert and ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit Master of Ceremonies Alex Blagg, content farms are destroying the fabric of the planet. Is there a better way for folks to get guaranteed super viral content? There sure is!
That’s why Alex will also be bringing his brand new Internet Content Mass Manufacturing Facility Warehouse Superstore to the 2WAY Summit in New York City on June 13-14.
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Dislike Facebook’s “Memorable Status Updates”? There’s a Group for That
Apr 6th
Earlier this year, Facebook began testing a feature called “Memorable Stories,” which showed users a random-seeming selection of old status updates in the site’s sidebar. Within days, users began complaining that the feature showed status updates that they didn’t want to be reminded of or, even worse, that deleted status updates were showing up.
Today, All Facebook highlighted a new level of user dissatisfaction – a Facebook group protesting the feature all together, asking the company to either shut it down or give users more control.
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The group, which has more than 1,100 members, asks that Facebook either “Lose ‘Memorable Status Updates’ – or Give us Control.” Users are posting a variety of similar complaints about the feature on the group’s wall, saying that it is showing them content they may not want to be reminded of and, again, that it is showing deleted status updates.
When we asked Facebook about this last time, a spokesperson told us that “This was in fact a bug that was to the 1% of people in the test for Memorable Stories. We turned it off when we discovered this and fixed it immediately. To be clear, we were only showing people their own status updates, meaning they were not visible to anyone’s friends.”
More than one user complains on the group’s wall, however, that the feature has shown them not theirs but friends’ deleted status updates, calling it a violation of privacy.
“Funny thing is, my boyfriend went on his facebook and completely removed his feed from public sight,” writes one user. “It STILL let me see his old statuses. A breach of privacy policy me think. Careful Facebook.”
While showing a user their own deleted status updates raises some questions, showing them friends’ deleted status updates is another thing entirely.
We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment, but haven’t yet received a reply.
[Image via All Facebook.]
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First child care and dusting, and then there’s Hoon – MiamiHerald.com
Mar 18th
 MiamiHerald.com |
First child care and dusting, and then there's Hoon
MiamiHerald.com Euny is slaving away at a street restaurant and living a hardscrabble life when she is offered the opportunity to improve her situation considerably by moving in with the wealthy businessman Hoon (Lee Jung-jae) and his wife Hera (Seo Woo), … Movie review: Dark power games in 'Housemaid' Movie review: The Housemaid (Hanyo) |
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Roman Catholics Tell Your Sins To Your iPhone: There’s An App For That
Feb 8th
Confession is now not just what you do in church, there is an iPhone app for it! Scroll through the App Store and you can find it – but you do not actually get pennance from your phone.
The app created by Little i Apps, LLC can be used on iPhones and iPads. It has an imprimatur — “in the Catholic Church an imprimatur is an official declaration by a Church authority that a book or other printed work may be published,” Wikipedia noted. The title of the app is a little misleading, it is actually an aid to track sins and the penance given by the priest.
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Roman Catholics Tell Your Sins To YouriPhone: There’s An App For That
Feb 8th
Confession is now not just what you do in church, there is an iPhone app for it! Scroll through the App Store and you can find it – but you do not actually get pennance from your phone.
The app created by Little i Apps, LLC can be used on iPhones and iPads. It has an imprimatur -”iIn the Catholic Church an imprimatur is an official declaration by a Church authority that a book or other printed work may be published’, Wikipedia noted. The title of the app is a little misleading, it is actually an aid to track sins and the penance given by the priest.
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There’s Big Money in Cyborg Mapping Apps – Trapster Gets Acquired
Dec 10th
Cyborgs, part human and part machine: that seems like a reasonable way to understand the new group of mobile phone driving navigation apps that use your travel to build a collective real time map of roads, driving hazards and more. They are right in the middle of an important continuum – sensor devices capturing data, with more or less human involvement, for the purpose of aggregate analysis and the creation of new services.
On Wednesday crowdsourced mobile mapping startup Waze announced it has raised $25 million more in venture capital. Now this afternoon mobile speed trap and road hazard mapping app Trapster is reported to have turned its 9 million cyborg mapping army into a bidding war among big potential acquirers, in the end won by NAVTEQ for an undisclosed sum.
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It’s easy to see why these mobile, social world-mapping apps are desirable to investors and acquirers – their real time data raises the bar for consumer navigation. As Google’s Brett Slatkin, co-creator of real-time data syndication technology PubSubHubbub, once told us: if you’re looking to cross a street, you don’t want to base your timing on a photo of the traffic on that street five minutes ago. Nor, if you are the traffic, would you choose delayed or static road data if up to the minute and real-time data is available. This isn’t just a story about people using their iPhones to escape speed traps, though, this is just a snapshot in the early history of sensor-driven, smarter systems.
Some of those systems will be driven by people, acting in their individual interests and directly or indirectly contributing to a collective pool of knowledge, information and data that can serve as the foundation for products and services like real-time maps or more responsive local governments.
Above: Waze is growing fast, but Trapster has grown about four times as fast, hitting 9 million downloads in 2 years. Trapster has a simpler value proposition and a more direct pitch to craven self-interest; Waze is more high-minded and perhaps thus much smaller. Waze has also focused on international and commercial markets.
Other systems won’t require human participation at all, though. The instrumentation of formerly dumb devices, into smart and network connected appliances and infrastructure, will yield the same kind of real-time monitoring and platform for innovation in fields such as power management, water delivery, food distribution, urban planning and more.
There will always be a continuum of human involvement. From the power utilities slowly catching up system-wide with the benefits of what’s today called the Smart Grid but tomorrow will just be the standard experience for all customers, through the collaborative wiki-like mapping footwork done by communities of people using GPS devices, like Open Street Map.
It’s not a surprise to see big money moving around for car-level, real-time mobile mapping software. It’s just a taste of what’s likely to come as more data creates more value and more valuation drives more data creation.
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Why do people still say SEO as if there’s any other than Google and Yahoo?
Apr 26th
Can you name another one?
IceRocket?
AltaVista?
Lycos?
Ask?
AOL?
Live?
Do all these sites add up to closely competing with Y & G?
Shouldn’t we just say Google Opt & Yahoo Opt instead now?
Specialized ones like eBay, technorati are different markets.
