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January 31, 2006
Should blogs be included in Google News? That's not an easy question to answer with a simple yes or no. The content of any given blog will likely have a huge bearing on your opinion, right?
January 30, 2006
Building on yesterday's post on network neutrality / prioritized bandwidth, here are a five things bugging me about the business models proposed by telecommunications companies:
January 29, 2006
Under this scenario, a company like Yahoo could pay for prioritized bandwidth, causing their site's content to be delivered faster than Google's. Communications companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth see prioritized bandwidth as a way to generate new revenue from content providers. This is a hot issue deserving attention from internet users because congress is updating the 1996 Telecommunications Act this year.
January 28, 2006
I found out today that I have a problem: I like technology too much. Good tech, bad tech, expensive tech, cheap tech, I like it all and WANT it all. That?｢どｨび｢s the problem. I have wanted an Xbox 360 ever...
January 27, 2006
Yesterday's post on Technorati Optimization has fueled some stinging commentary from a few sites:
January 26, 2006
Anyone who has a blog and is familiar with Technorati is probably very aware of their blog's ranking on the popular blog search engine. If you're not careful, watching a blog's ranking fluctuate may lead to carpal tunnel from clicking the refresh button. Every blogger obsesses about this at some level, including respected bloggers like Steve Rubel, Frank Gruber and blogging newbie, Guy Kawasaki.
January 25, 2006
Firefox is one heck of a nice web browser, but Firefox with a few key extensions blows plain old Firefox out of the water. If you're not familiar with Firefox extensions, they're add-ons to the browser that increase the functionality. They can be anything from toolbars for blogging, to shorcuts for commonly used web resources like TinyURL.
January 24, 2006
WebProWorld has a forum discussion called, "Who You Are According to Google" that looks at what you can learn from Google Suggest.
January 23, 2006
Occasionally, friends of mine ask me if they should consider buying lots and lots of domain names as a marketing strategy to drive more traffic to their web sites. They theorize that many domains names will cast a wider net on the web for prospective site visitors. Is this an effective online marketing strategy? In most cases, no.
January 22, 2006
Yahoo recent quarterly results disappointed investors when their net income only rose 32% over a year ago. The market punished their stock, taking billions off their market cap.
January 21, 2006
Google's Gmail program offers a lot of storage. So much storage, in fact, that they assumed you'd never delete anything. So sure were they of this, they hid the delete button in a drop down menu, forcing you to work way to click twice to delete a message:
January 20, 2006
Isn't it nice to be able to learn something about the author of a blog post you found particularly brilliant or idiotic? We think so, so that's what we've done on Technology Evangelist. To find out a few things about any of the other authors on this site, just click on our hyperlinked names in the by-lines of our posts.
January 19, 2006
Ebay is a great place to find deals, but it's important to remember that what you've really won the right to pay more than anyone else for the auction. And this is not always a good deal.
January 18, 2006
Ranking high is search engine results is one of the most rewarding web marketing strategies available. But how is it actually done?
January 17, 2006
The web is abuzz today with a theory that businesses are painting logos on their rooftops in order to gain exposure on Google Maps. Interesting theory.
January 16, 2006
Last week was MacWorld week and the big deal was Steve Jobs demonstrating that in fact you can now get a Mac and be part of the Intel clan. Big deal.
January 15, 2006
Web usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen, has posted a new column called
"Search
Engines as Leeches of the Web" that outlines the challenges faced by
pay per click advertisers.
January 14, 2006
Google's paid video service drew the most press at CES last week, but what's the deal with Google Pack? Didn't hear about that one? That's because it received little to no press.
January 13, 2006
Given that you are currently reading a blog covering technology, it's probably safe to assume that you are a fairly technical person. You're probably the kind of person other people turn to for advice on technology purchases. Assuming that's the case, we have something in common, and I'd like some feedback from you on how you deal with one particularly vexing form of technical advice: recommending computers for parents.
January 12, 2006
A funny thing happened while checking this site's web stats from New York's JFK airport using my Sprint PCS Connection Card. I discovered new referring source of traffic coming from a page on startribune.com. Minnesota's largest daily published an article titled "Web Search: Gadgets and Gizmos" that looks at four web sites that "gleefully provide details" and reactions to last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Covering the CES show in HD taught us a lot about publishing HD content on the web, hauling a tripod through massive crowds, and how to capture good audio on a loud show floor. But it also taught us that we're human, when it managed to destroy the health of our on-camera talent / video editor.
January 11, 2006
I'm currently in New York City at the Inman Connect Conference at the Marriott Marquis. For those of you not familiar Inman Connect, it is the premier real estate conference in the country, where real estate agents, brokers, lenders, and companies serving the real estate industry come together to learn from each other.
January 10, 2006
I must admit I was a doubter. How could a PC based telephone conversation be as good as a land line?
Well, because I have a cousin in the UK and I wanted to make a call with minimum charges I decided to give Skype a try.
The Technology Evangelist team is at the McCarran airport after a long day of gathering as much last-day footage as possible at CES. We'll have more HD video content ready tomorrow. Here are a few highlights from today:
January 9, 2006
One of the big announcements at the 2006 International CES Show this week came at Larry Page's keynote where he announced that Google is now offering paid video content through their video service. This upgrade to Google Video allows people to rent or buy video content from major content providers, including the NBA, and more than 300 classic television shows from CBS. However, the press I've seen so far overvalues the role the CBS partnership will play in Google's long-term plans for their video service.
We are not going to have a video from Day 4 of the CES show ready tonight due to the draining effects of the show and travel.
January 8, 2006
Day 3 of CES, and we're starting to feel the pain, but it's so exciting we just can't stop. In this report we bring you Sling Box, the new dual core Toshiba laptop, and Google in all their Googleness. Tomorrow...
January 7, 2006
The Technology Evangelist crew has wrapped up shooting coverage from the CES Show floor today, and is now editing and rendering the footage. Here are a few highlights from today in old-fashioned text and images to wet your appetite.
Everyone at Technology Evangelist would like to give a big thank you to Herby for making the 2006 CES HDTV feeds available as bittorrent files. These files will help reduce the strain on the Technology Evangelist servers and reduce the...
The show keeps getting better and better. This is the second day of the 2006 Consumer Electronics show, and with it our second video update is now available. We have interesting conversations with Sanyo on their 720p handheld cameracorder, talk...
January 6, 2006
It's the first day of CES and we have a roundup of three really cool technologies: Palm Treo 700, Wireless USB and Wireless XGA. There are thousands of products on the CES show floor, and we have many, many interviews...
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January 5, 2006
We're just returning from the CES 2006 trade show floor after seeing some great new products in action. We're starting to edit the HD video for the site, so while we work on that, here are a few old-fashioned text and photo highlights. Check back later today for a report in HD video.
Today I received the sad news (by press release) of Frank Cary?｢どｨび｢s passing. It is a sad announcement for me because I remember him well from his time as Chairman of IBM.
January 4, 2006
We at Technology Evangelist are excited for CES, less than 24 hours away now. Wondering how we are planning on bringing you exclusive HDTV coverage of the show floor? Watch our 2nd 2006 CES pre-show video and find out! For...
We're just one short day away from our expo floor coverage and we wanted to show you exactly how we'll be bringing CES to you.
TechnologyEvangelist.com Presents... 2006 International CES in High Definition.
January 3, 2006
Technology Evangelist is excited to bring you the International Consumer Electronics Show coverage in HDTV! Starting today with our pre-show countdown, we will be posting HDTV files of CES on our website. We are using the latest in video compression...
January 2, 2006
By evangelizing the following email etiquette peeves, I hope to make business communications twice as efficient as they are today. Is that too much to ask?
January 1, 2006
Happy new year everyone! In the spirit of the new year, Technology Evangelist has ten predictions for 2006: 1 A new super-virus will be released on the Internet that will wreak havoc on Windows based systems. This virus will be...
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