Let’s face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm is no different. It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That’s a big class to climb to the top
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Every time you navigate from website to website, or video to video, you’re driven by the experience. And yet, when we share content online — whether it’s scrolling through a Flickr () photostream from your friend’s wedding, or a live-streaming video — we are often left feeling that something is missing; that for all of
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Sometimes the hardest part of having international clients is finding a way to connect with them. Small businesses often have to worry about different time zones, different languages, and even different customs and traditions. While there’s no catch-all, golden resource that can solve every problem a small internationally-minded business could have, there are some easy
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The City of Campbell River, in partnership with the Campbell River First Nations community, INFilm, Strathcona Community Futures, Rivercorp and North Island College, has launched the Campbell River Creative Industries Initiative. This initiative is designed to create a new economic sector in Campbell River that will tap the creative talent and resources of our little
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Quick Pitch: Consumer Reports meets Yelp () for the purpose of creating buying alliances on behalf of the consumer. Genius Idea: Groubal is an advocacy platform that enables U.S. consumers to create online petitions and recruit others to their causes. Find your bank’s late payment fees unfair, or upset that you weren’t compensated by an
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Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter (), Facebook () and the myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal — you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for tweens to gossip
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When news breaks these days, YouTube is quickly becoming a tried-and-true source for fascinating and poignant video footage from on-the-ground citizen journalists. Because of its perceived growing importance in the Fourth Estate, YouTube () is testing a News Feed. This feature will highlight newsworthy videos uploaded by amateur videographers as well as professional news outlets.
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After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places. This feature will highlight tweets at a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desktop and mobile users can tag their tweets with existing Twitter Places and add new Twitter Places, too. Twitter Places can be explored
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“Old people” on Facebook: They couldn’t beat it, so they joined it. But why? And how did they hear about social media in the first place? They can’t all be simply stalking their younger relatives, can they? A new study from the AARP — that’s the American Association of Retired Persons — shows that baby
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Today at WWDC, Steve Jobs officially announced the brand new fourth-generation iPhone, to be called the iPhone 4. Thanks to that whole lost prototype incident, we’ve known what the phone was going to look like for several months. But now we have confirmation of the final design as well several of the 100 new features
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