Google launched its “instant” search today, touting its ability to speed up the search experience so much that it will save its users 111 years per day.

But what is it?
Google Instant predicts what you are searching for based on the partial search phrase you have typed in and instantly provides the search results. As you [...]

I’ve written lots about Foursquare for retailers, this post is focused on how you as a consumer or end user can use it. But first…
What is it?
Foursquare is a location-based social networking application for “smartphone” mobile devices (currently Blackberry, iPhone, and Android) and is also a game. Users “check-in” at venues using their mobile phone [...]

It has been a few weeks since I did an update on using Klout to achieve a business goal so I thought I would take a few moments to spread some wisdom and findings.
Since the last post we have successfully moved our Klout Classification from an Explorer to Activist, which is one step closer to [...]

Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, is one of the most popular photo storage and sharing sites on the web. It’s free, easy to use & offers a variety of methods for sorting, categorizing and tagging images. People can comment on and rate pictures, and photos can be made private or only viewable by friends and [...]

If you are still skeptical about how this social media “fad that the kids are doing” can have any business application whatsoever, a recent Gartner report should convince you otherwise.
Gartner’s survey found that most people’s purchases are influenced by social networks, the inference being that companies not marketing using social media are missing the majority [...]

Many of the online marketing and social media campaigns I see these days focus on the big three networks; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Occasionally a smattering of Flickr, and some social bookmarking sites and of course YouTube, which is the one I want to talk about today.
YouTube is the most popular video storage and sharing website [...]