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Wikis are the new trend in corporate infrastructure and for good reason. Not only can a wiki act as an external product/service FAQ, but it can also act as an internal corporate portal facilitating knowledge management and collaboration across all functional activities of the organization. From HR to Marketing/Sales this easy to edit technology is […]

Google was at it again over the weekend adjusting the page rank algorithm. This seemingly quarterly change has once again altered current page ranks, thankfully not as much as October’s change. Beware and monitor your site’s rank. You may have to make alterations to your organic SEO strategy.

Pew Internet has reported that 48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year. The basic findings in a national phone survey that ended in December show: thereby further demonstrating the viral potential for online […]

So I am going to be interested to see what type of traction Facebook picks up in the next quarter after their belly-flop onto prime time television via their sponsorship of the presidential debates. The various juries are still debating the degree of success, if any, that the interaction between Facebook users and the CNN […]

So what is Data Portability? Well here is the mission statement: To put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community. Who is the involved? Only a few little web initiatives known as Google, Facebook, and […]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an annual meeting where our leaders and brightest minds come together to discss major social and economic problems that we currently face across the planet. Since 1971 little has changed with this forum until this year, for on January 23, 2008 the forum will be showing requested Youtube videos. […]

The Semantic Web. View it here as Twine sees it. This is the first online demo that has been published so buckup and embrace the future… Long Version: Short Version:

Google has adjusted the clickable area in their Adsense ads, subsequently decreasing the total clickable area. Whereas in the past the whole ‘box ‘ – the white area – was clickable now only the headline of the ad or the URL which has instantly resulted in lower click through rates (CTR) for advertisers, and hence […]

According to Advertising Age Facebook is expected to unveil a new social retailing feature today (November 6th). The feature will allow Facebook members to share with people in their network what they bought, where they bought and also information on the product like a discount or coupon. This offering therefore represents one of the largest […]

OpenSocial is Google’s new API which was created to allow cross-platform application for social networking sites thereby once again flattening the marketspace, and creating an opportunity to market across many mediums with ease. View Our Portfolio

I came across an article title that jumped out at me “Internet Marketing Tips from Al Qaeda” beyond the obvious shock factor there are some really interesting observations from a professor in Israel. Gabriel Weimann is a professor of communications at the University of Haifa in Israel. He’s been monitoring 5,800 militant Islamist web sites […]

After extensive debate (not really) we have decided to put this little area out on our site to tackle a few of the questions we routinely get from our clients as well as keep you guys aware of what we are paying attention to. If there is an emerging technology out there that might have […]