Facebook’s vanity URL push (covered by TechCrunch) is a big deal for two reasons:
- the direct business model opportunity
- traffic via natural search
Let’s leave the business model alone for the now as it is …

There is a worm actively going around Twitter encouraging users to view the “best video” – which is cloaked in a short url (juste.ru/…). Twitter actively and quickly responded with a short, strange message:
“No matter …

Let me preface by saying that, while I do not consider myself a video game buff, I am the proud owner of a Sony Playstation 3 (used both for Blu Ray and infrequent gaming). It …

beRecruited had another great press mention – this time by Tallahssee.com’s Corey Clark in “Athletes offer tips on the recruiting process.”
It is a thorough, encouraging article about the proactive role that athletes and their …

11 days and 7 hours remain until the much-anticipated Palm Pre launch… at least that’s what Sprint’s ad campaign has drilled in my head (again and again). The ads are running on sponsorships across major …

The NBA clearly has MLB.tv envy…
And it’s not a bad thing! (now if only the NFL would start experimenting)
I have written before that Major League Baseball is the only major sports league to grasp the …

In late March, I wrote that the next step for iPhone game developers was to go ‘backwards’ by mimicking control pads found on old gaming systems like Nintendo NES and GameBoy:

Well the iPhone has really …

MacRumors has screenshots of Apple’s new iPhone Push Notifications (running through the new iPhone 3.0 software).
Think of it as the real-time feed (or stream) going mobile. Just as Facebook’s feed opening sparked new innovation and …

Google continues to advertise aggressively for their web browser, Google Chrome. Today, they took over the right side of the New York Times homepage with an expanding video ad that rotates through different Chrome commercials …

The New York Times Edmund Andrews’ “My Personal Credit Crisis” is a candid recap of how a respected economic reporter for a respected news source entered into the same world of subprime mortgages and credit …

This past Tuesday, beRecruited.com reached a major milestone: we registered our 500,000th user – representing 3x growth in the last year. beRecruited now has:
- more than 450,000 are student-athletes
- over 16,000 college coaches and …

Interesting data out of Comscore and TechCrunch this morning that points to the slowing growth of paid search activity despite a rise in search activity. Comscore believes it is a consequence of longer search queries, …