Innovation
New Particle Collider to Shut for Repairs
The LHC was supposed to be built in Texas but it was stopped during an economic downturn. We did not build it. It’s a shame. I look at our current economic state and hope we do not make the same mistake. When banks fail, stocks tumble, and oil runs low, America’s bread and butter is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MarketingSherpa: How to Coordinate Multiple Campaigns Without Competing Against Yourself: 5 Ways to Avoid Pitfalls
I think this a terrific article on SEO and PPC strategy.
SUMMARY: The challenges of search marketing multiply when you’re running campaigns for multiple brands or divisions all at the same time. You don’t want to compete against yourself for key terms or benefit one campaign at the expense of another.
Find out how a state travel [...]
TG Daily – Surprise, surprise: U.S. broadband is slow. Really slow.
Oh, this will never do. Matching broadband the speeds seen in other countries would be great for business. New media and communications innovations are all hampered by our snail paced broadband
How slow?
Average DL speeds
US : 2.3 Mb/s
Japan : 63 Mb/s
South Korea : 49.5 Mb/s
Finland : 21.7 Mb/s
France : 17.6 Mb/s
Canada : 7.3 [...]
PC World – Business Center: Ex-Googler, Husband Launch Cuil New Search Engine
Pretty neat engine with some cool bells and whistles. I searched popular terms “Ring Tones” and “Auto Insurance” and no ads came up, but I assume with some convenient white space on the right side, they are on the way. Company logos, and in some cases a preview of content, are displayed along with results, [...]
DailyTech – Breakthrough Allows LED Lighting to be Processed on Silicon at Great Savings
The Department of Energy offered a $20MM Bright Tomorrow prize for the creation of mass producible efficient lighting. It worked!
Note to the DoE: Great job! Do more of this stuff!
The new device is extremely promising as it may allow lighting to finally do primarily what it was intended — make light. Traditional [...]
Will CherryPal be the first mass-market cloud computer? » VentureBeat
Pretty cool device. Under $250 and will do most of what the average user needs. However, it wont work for us gamers, but I like the idea!
A cloud computer is desirable for a few reasons. One is that small chips like the CherryPal’s 400 MHz Freescale processor can handle more tasks with the help [...]
Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan – Yahoo! News
I can’t believe that companies are actually considering metering Internet users, again. This reminds me of AOL’s reign back in the 90s. A bad idea is still a bad idea ten years later.
Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president, said [...]
AMD Sets New Memory Standard With GDDR5
“Speaking of games, overall this will offer gamers the possibility to play at high resolutions with high image quality settings. In addition to that, applications will have faster load times, superior responsiveness and multitasking, AMD explained.”
AMD’s new chip will basically be really really fast. The question is, will consumers be quick enough to adopt [...]
U.S. hedge funds press for right to advertise | Reuters
I hope that hedge funds get the right to market, if so there is an opportunity here for entrepreneurs. Hedge funds will want the benefits of marketing but they wont want actually have to do it. I imagine many will need help navigating the tight restrictions and still deliver effective messaging and many smaller hedge [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Associated Press: Nintendo’s latest game wants you off the couch
I am excited about getting the Wii Fit. We also rented Boom Blox last weekend and now intend to buy it. I’m consistently impressed with Wii products and I think the critics that say there are not enough games for the Wii to make it a long-term competitor are nuts. Though, it is true that [...]
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