Posted by Akshay Sura on Mar 30, 2010
Although much of the media attention Barack Obama is receiving now is focused on his governance and Health Care, it's important for other politicians and businesses alike to keep in mind the paradigm shift of the Obama election.
Obama transformed campaigning and politics through his use of the Internet as a campaign tool.
He did not stop with a simple website, as many candidates have posted in the past, or a simple money raising campaign as ...
Posted by By Miguel Helft on Oct 13, 2008
Quiz: What’s the No. 2 search site?
Answer: If you guessed “Yahoo,” you’re wrong. Internet users now conduct more searches on YouTube (2.5 billion in August) than they do on Yahoo (2.4 billion), according to comScore’s expanded search query report.
So it is not surprising that YouTube’s parent, Google, is thinking of turning those searches into dollars. The company has begun testing video ads that are targeted to specific YouTube ...
Posted by Louis Columbus on Oct 06, 2008
Marketing is going through a revolution online, thanks to the continual adoption of the Web 2.0 concepts originally defined by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty.
If you want to see some excellent graphics and analysis explaining Web 2.0, subscribe to Ross Dawson's blog, Trends in the Living Networks.
A New Conversation
Social networking has removed many of the obstacles that got in the way of better understanding prospects and customers, and ...
Posted by Don Reisinger on Sep 08, 2008
Here at TechCrunch 50, there are a slew of interesting companies worth writing about on-stage. But I came across one in the Demo Pit that's just as noteworthy.
Called KallOut, the service allows you to search the Web from a Word doc or email without minimizing the screen and going to the Web. It replaces that with a couple clicks of a mouse. According to the company, its research shows that users can search the Web up to ten times faster by ...
Posted by Jason Kincaid on Sep 04, 2008
Overlay.TV, a startup that lets users augment streaming videos with customized text, audio, images, and links, has launched to the public. The service overlays videos from a number of video sharing sites with a new layer containing this customized content, which can be used for entertainment purposes or as an easy (and potentially effective) means of monetizing video.
To use Overlay.TV, you first give the site the source URL of the video ...
Posted by John Brandon on Sep 03, 2008
The lurching, heaving behemoth of the Web will become a self-feeding entity someday, symmetrical and aligned with itself, ubiquitous and pervasive, not constrained by the browser or even a PC. That's the vision for the world wide Web after Web 2.0 - a concept where apps are islands, users interact only through portals that let them interact, programming languages don't understand each other, and we're limited by what the OS, the network, the ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Aug 26, 2008
I've been fighting this sinking feeling that we're headed for another four years (or eight) of a Republican President. Not that I have anything against John McCain except that I'll never vote for him. But I'm a pretty staunch Democrat, and it'd be nice to blame my own party for the world's problems for a change.
In the last presidential election, I formulated a theory that the most social media-savvy party would win. John Kerry and the DNC ...
