Archives for the 'Google' Category
Prepare For A Videocast Explosion On YouTube
YouTube quietly added a feature today that will send video on the net into hyper growth. The feature is called “Quick Capture” and it lets users record videos directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers (Ars Technica broke the story).
You can get a webcam at Walmart for $20 to $40. They’re really easy [...]
For All You Google News Alert Freaks…
…you can now add blogs to to your Google Alerts. This will be a great feature for enterprise executives who spend a lot of time in Outlook and e-mail. But it only makes a big problem worse. Most executives get too much e-mail already. The beauty of RSS is it lets [...]
Learning From Walmart’s Failed Social Network (and Microsoft and Nike’s successes)
Pete Cashmore wrote a good post on Walmart’s ill-conceived The Hub which was closed down after only 10 weeks. The Hub was Walmart’s attempt to recreate MySpace for their Gen Y shoppers. The problem is their Gen Y shoppers were having too much fun on MySpace to care one iota about The Hub. There’s a [...]
