Tag Archives: Internet

Facebook, privacy and few helpful tools

Over ten years ago, Sun’s CEO told us to “You have zero pri­vacy any­way. Get over it.” In a few cir­cles Face­book is becom­ing about as trusted as BP or Phillip Mor­ris. And in my opin­ion, this is jus­ti­fied. While I agree with Scott McNeally’s assess­ment, I don’t agree with his sen­ti­ment. We shouldn’t get

Video and search. Why it matters.

Do you know what the sec­ond largest search engine is? No, it’s not Bing. Yahoo? Nah. It’s YouTube. Yeah, really. Did you know that almost half of search results yeild video thumb­nails? And as you might guess, those thumb­nails tend to get clicked on. Is it time to get seri­ous about video? You bet.

Are “digital” creatives the future for traditional shops?

There’s been a lot of dis­cus­sion lately about what the future’s cre­ative depart­ment should look like and who it should be headed by. Do tra­di­tional shops need to get rid of their old guard and make way for lead­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers steeped in the tra­di­tions of the dig­i­tal shops? Surely they need to get rid of

So what about Google Buzz?

Image via Crunch­Base Yes­ter­day Google launched Google Buzz with a “so what” that rang much clearer but with less of a let down than last weeks iPad intro­duc­tion. It’s not fully acti­vated so I haven’t used it on my desk­top Gmail yet (yes, I acti­vated it) but it is work­ing on my iPhone. It looks

Jimmy’s Week on the InterWebs — August 21, 2009

Image via Crunch­Base This is the first install­ment of Jimmy’s Week on the Inter­Webs. A very low-level look at what’s cur­rent and what I think would be inter­est­ing for agency folks that is hap­pen­ing on the Web. This may end up being a weekly blog arti­cle or it might not. Lots inter­est­ing things going on with