Posts by Barry Silverstein
Google’s Quest for Universal Search Comes with Risk
By the time you read this, Google will probably have introduced yet another refinement to its ubiquitous search engine, or maybe it will announce another acquisition.
In the official company blog on August 8, Amit Singhal, SVP of Google Search, …
The Battle for Mobile Search Superiority
It should come as no surprise that everything that once was on the desktop is now in a highly portable form. Smartphone and tablet users have literally mobile-ized and are leading the next wave of Internet connectivity.
The rapid move …
Who Cares About Apple vs. Samsung? You Should
The sensationalists are calling Apple vs. Samsung “the patent trial of the century.†The trial, which began July 30 in Silicon Valley, is the result of a suit filed by Apple in April 2011, accusing Samsung of infringing on patents …
Cloning an Apple: Microsoft & Google Tackle the Hardware Question
June 2012 may well go down as the month the technology world turned upside down. That’s because something unheard of happened – both Microsoft and Google officially turned their attention to home-grown hardware.
In mid-June, Microsoft showed off Surface, its …
Will LinkedIn Leapfrog the Competition or Lose Its Differentiation?
We are witnessing a fairly rapid evolution of social media networks as Facebook, Twitter, and now LinkedIn make substantial changes to their features and appearance. The most dramatic change, however, may well be to LinkedIn, the network that has long …
Is Facebook the New Television?
Television has long been the dominant medium when it comes to brand advertising. While this remains the case today, big brand advertisers are slowly but surely moving their ad dollars to social media.
The primary beneficiary of this shift …
The Ad Herd is Migrating to Unmeasured Media
Since 1956, the ad industry’s leading publication, Advertising Age (or Ad Age for short) has been tracking the ad spending of the top 100 U.S. advertisers – and since that time, “measured†and “unmeasured†media have been analyzed.
Before the …
The Evolution of Email Marketing Into a Social Connection Platform
Long before Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube, there was a very basic form of social media called email. By simply copying other individuals on an email sent from one person to another, that email was distributed to a group. …
Advertising Drives Twitter Into the Future
It wasn’t long before Twitter’s first 15-second TV ad hit the airwaves that media and tech pundits were all atwitter about Twitter’s advertising strategy. And with good reason: Already, Twitter’s approach to advertising looks more plausible than Facebook’s.
Twitter employed …
Crowdfunding: Just for Kicks or Serious Business?
The Internet, which has revolutionized so many aspects of business, is poised to do the same for the world of venture capital. Traditionally, independent entrepreneurs have not had an easy time of it when it comes to funding their ideas. …
