OpenSocial v. ICA: Why one flies and the other falters

Since the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial project I’ve been following the developments with great interest to see the adoption flow. I think Social Media and the Social Web are here to stay. The development of a standard platform for Social Media projects at this relatively early stage of the game indicates that major companies are […]

Search Engine Optimizers Hate Domainers

If you thought that Google & Yahoo! were working in a vacuum to make life more difficult for domainers you’re kidding yourself. I’ve seen the enemy and the enemy is SEO.
I’m in NYC for the Search Engine Strategies show. For those of you who do not know what I’m talking about, SES is the largest […]

Google Calendar Readying for Offline Capabilities

You know what’s better than free? Free the way you need it! Google looks to be heading toward offering an offline version of it’s popular calendar program. Download squad alerted me to the news this morning and sure enough, I have the offline tab as well in my Google Apps for my Name.com account.
Name.com offers […]

Google Allows Parked Page Opt-out

2008 is shaping up to be a year of change in the the domaining biz.
First Yahoo! put a stop to arbitrage. Then the Snowe Bill was introduced. Now Google is allowing advertisers to opt-out of having their ads displayed on parked pages.
It’s not hard to imagine that this will soon have, at least in the […]