New Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer – Yahoo Gets it Right Air Date: July 19, 2012 Analyzing the Hire of New Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, what kind of expectations will she need to meet, and how much time will she get to turn the Yahoo ship around. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Yahoo has finally got it right. After a decade of missteps, mistakes and missed opportunities, Yahoo has finally made a staggeringly good choice. Marissa Mayer, the former head of style and guardian of Google’s minimalist esthetic has left the rainbow pod for purpler pastures as the new President and CEO of Yahoo. She starts tomorrow […]
To all our friends in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Tomorrow July 17 at 12:35pm I’m (Alan K’necht) being interviewed on 660 KSKY on the show Everything Internet. Not sure if I’ll be on right at 12:35 but sometime before 1:00pm. During my 10-15 minute interview, I’ll be discussing SEO and search marketing in general. […]
Social Media Camp Victoria 2012 Recap air data: July 12, 2012 The interview segment features Social Media Camp Victoria 2012 recap with social media motivational speaker Fred Sarkari. We also talk about the 450,000 Yahoo Voice passwords stolen in data breach. Quick warning, the show starts with me going on a rant because a beloved […]
My partner at Digital Always Media (DAM), Jim Hedger, and I are fond of debating the pros & cons of the “cloud”. The “Cloud” is that magical area in cyberspace that no-one can clearly define except to say “you know we store it on the cloud”. To be technical the “cloud” is a collection of […]
In this day and age, is there any point in pretending we can quit Facebook or Google? For the 99.998% of the population that didn’t notice, Facebook quietly launched their latest application, Brave New World “Find Friends Nearby”. Basically, when you’re at your next party, you can jump on your Android phone and log into […]
DuckDuckGo Interview with founder Gabriel Weinberg Air Date: June 28, 2012 Jim and Dave speak with DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg. Named by Time Magazine as one of The 50 Best Websites of 2011, DuckDuckGo is a simple, straightforward search engine that is considered reminiscent of early Google. This is one of the most fun and […]
This week, Webcology was able to snag the affable and thoroughly knowledgably Gabriel Weinberg, founder of everyone’s favourite dark horse search engine, Duckduckgo.com. Joining co-hosts Jim Hedger and Dave Davies for 40 minutes, Gabriel was kind enough to answer any question that was thrown in his direction. The following are some of the questions and […]
As part of Digital Always Media’s partner Alan K’necht ongoing promotion of his book The Last Original Idea, he is a featured guest on an upcoming Shindig.com event this Thursday June 28th 6pm-7pm Eastern. He’ll be focusing his thoughts primarily on social media marketing campaigns and how organization can measure if their social marketing efforts […]
More Facebook Ranting; Microsoft Launches Surface; Anatomy of an Internal Link Air Date: June 21, 2012 More Facebook Ranting Microsoft launches Surface, a line of tablet computers running the Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT operating systems Anatomy of an Internal Link. Podcast: Play in new window | Download