I Won’t Watch Your Video Blog Post

A growing trend in blogging as well as informational website production is the video blog post. It’s cousin, the video tutorial, has been around a little longer and with much better justification. When it comes to explaining things, sometimes it is much easier to show than to tell. For example, I can show someone in … Read more

Are Facebook Fans Really Worth Anything?

Yesterday, the personal finance blog Finance Gourmet speculated on how overvalued Facebook might be right now, and more specifically, if any of the company valuations being thrown around by financial analysts and private share exchanges are anything more than wild (optimistic) guesses. I had a different thought today as I went through my usual social … Read more

Facebook Ad Revenue Growth Real?

Facebook is not a publicly traded company. Although there are many people speculating that Facebook will go public in the near future. As a privately held company, Facebook is not required to release any financial information to the public. Furthermore, the company does not have to have its finances audited either. That doesn’t keep financial … Read more

Facebook Like Google Killer ?

Is Facebook’s new Like Button really a Google killer. Will the Likes of social networking prove more desirable and powerful than Google’s search engine rankings based upon number of links?

Google Buzz Gmail Fails Against Facebook & Twitter

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and … Read more

Social Newtorking for Newbies

Most of my success can be traced to resume building and certification. Stand out on a piece of paper and someone will hire you. Now, I’m running my own business, and no one cares about my resume. Instead I need to network. Online that means social networking. I’ve never been to interested in those kind of sites, but now I’m jumping in.