Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? – The Verge
Just wanted to say: this is a really good article. The article is a great snapshot of where we are in SEO, with insights from the start many decades a go. Great...
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Read this on the rise and fall of Google Search
For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in...
I see so much of my own past in how Google Reader died
Great article looking back at the growth and termination of Google Reader. Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got th...
Thoughts on personal data usage in the age of ‘peak data selling’
The way we use deep personal data needs to change. Indeed, I’ve been saying this for a few years now. As everyone knows, megacorps like Google and Faceboo...
Might the losers of the smartphone boom suggest the losers of the wrist-top wars with smartwatches?
I recently saw (via CBInsights) this graphic of the impact smartphones had on the sales in different consumer electronic categories. Back in Nokia’s heyda...
Fascinated by fake news: AI, content, and being human
All the hubbub around fake news and the presidential elections got me thinking of AIs; how we find, review, and share content (a long term topic for me); how hu...
Talk to the hand – and the computer, and the home device, and the…
At the core of what is going to drive this new wave of adoption of AI will be the “conversational interface.”* We spoke a bit about bots, and how th...
Hey, John McCarthy, AI has finally gone mainstream
You know the feeling when someone mentions something and then you see it everywhere? Well, that’s what happened to me with AI. I wasn’t giving it an...
Thoughts on “The age of indie fitness apps is over”
I officially left the mobile world back in ’09. But, of course, since then, we’ve seen the meteoric rise of the iPhone, folks getting the idea of mo...
Google Maps as traffic cop in the sky?
I am a very heavy user of Google Maps, even when I know where I’m going. It’s a pretty good* predictor of current travel time and traffic patterns. ...