AOL has made some waves this year that have mostly centered on the people that are coming on board rather than services that will turn the companies fortunes to the plus side. Tim Armstrong has come over from Google and injected a sense of purpose and urgency (one would guess) as the unit of Time [...]

And you thought Virtual Worlds were so passé…a new study suggests that virtual worlds may be getting a second life. In 2007-2008, many brands and companies flocked to Second Life to build a virtual presence, which spiked, peaked, and created somewhat of a backlash and ultimately a bit of a retreat in the process. By [...]

Local search is an interesting animal to say the least. There are seemingly a million different directories and citysearch-logoresources to help bring search to the street level but it is so scattered that it frustrates more often than is helps. Citysearch has been around the scene virtually since the beginning of the commercial Internet. In [...]

Is the Real-Time Web a threat to Google? Rackspace executive Lew Moorman sure thinks so. He’s right. Fewer and fewer of my search behaviors have been on Google lately.