Archive for January, 2009

Have you Embraced UGC?

Is User-generated-content (UGC) taking over the Internet?  Thanks to the Web, when people want to complain, read or listen to others, they congregate online.  Remember when just a short time ago if you wanted to voice your opinion you had to attend a meeting or send a letter to the editor or place a phone […]

The PageRank Shuffle

PageRank: the name of Google’s system of assessing every web page a score, from 0-10, indicating that page’s importance.  Any score is good, and only sites like Wikipedia and CNN are unable to attain a 9/10 or 10/10.  So unlike with most other scales, a 5/10 or a 6/10 is very good. A particular web […]

Total Connectivity?

One of the most fascinating and anticipated conventions of the year is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  Interestingly enough, the Associated Press commented that “absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet.” Manufacturers are looking to embed computer chips with Internet connections into more and more unusual […]