Black Hat Guys Go UnGoogled (Who Ya Gonna Call? SEO Busters)

I enjoy telling you about Search Engine Optimization. As I’ve mentioned before, part of the reason for that is that we sell SEO Consulting and Search Engine Optimization services, but I also like it because SEO presents the…

Which: Search Engine Optimization? Marketing? Adwords? YES!

Out of the Mouths of Babes (and 18-Year-Olds) . . .

When my youngest son graduated from high school, I compared him to Arianna Huffington. It was kind of an abstract comparison, but it fit; we all have to find our way through a constantly-changing set of circumstances. The other day, that…

Shawn and Sean In Search Of The Killer App. And It’s AIRTIME

It’s Airtime, Dude!

Much to my surprise given my background as a quasi-geek and the subject I write about most often, I hardly ever talk about “the killer app”. Killer Apps are the very definition of…

PayPal Debit Card (When Your Bank Pretends To Give You Something)

Somewhere along the line, PayPal became a bank. Your bank. You probably missed it, but it happened.

And somewhere else, PayPal started acting like a bank, too. Now, when PayPal uses your…

From AAA to ByeByeBye: How SpringPad Made Me Throw Them Away

One of the earliest pieces I wrote here and filed under “business change” was this one about changes made to password manager software SplashID. And while many of the thoughts I pass along are instructional from a cautionary…

Verizon Has Made My Head — And Likely YOUR Wallet — Hurt. A LOT

Your phone calls just became free. So did your text messages. Sounds great, right?

Guess again. If you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, your prices, under the guise of Verizon Wireless making…

Verizon FIOS Quantum, and the 300 Mbps You’ll Never See

Chivalry, Vial Behavior, Morals, Journalism, and Arianna

Do you think that when Arianna Huffington re-tweeted those words, she noticed that chivalry had been made into something vial?

I suspect not.

The Smartest Man In Business Today

We all have people whose every word we follow, hanging on to each and ever utterance out of our personal gurus’ mouths as though they were . . . well . . . gurus.

Much to my surprise, even I have a few followers who look to me like a seer of…

Advertising, Do Not Track, Politics, Privacy, and You

What Happens When SEO Gets You Traffic On Your Own Name?

Yesterday, while doing analysis for one of our larger SEO clients, we came across what you see above. My apologies for blurring out the keywords, but showing them would compromise both our client’s identity and potentially the value…

Bill Gates, You’re No Bill Gates (or Steve Jobs) — Gladwell

You’d think that I’d write here about Bill Gates on a regular basis. You’d be wrong. Oh sure, I’ve written about Microsoft and their evolution from a software company to one that invents battery technology, and I’ve told you…

A Year In, What’s Happening at Google+ ?

Are you using Google+ ?

Huffington Post, Consumerist: Indignant Over . . . WHAT?

If you see something on the Internet, it must be true.

Right?

It seems that at The Consumerist and at The Huffington Post, “it must be true” is what passes for journalism. Go ahead…

Evil Is Everywhere: Zagat Now Free. Google Now Paid.

Last September, Google bought the Zagat review guides from Tim and Nina Zagat. I told you than that Zagat is the best of the review guides, fixing the Internet’s fake reviews problem because of the way their data gets crunched.