Facebook recently inked a new partnership deal with a data metrics company called Datalogix. The goal? To keep track of Facebook users who see ads and then later go on to purchase particular items from brick-and-mortar stores. This move represents a fascinating development in the field of advertising analytics but also a concern for privacy […]
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Adventures in Kindle Direct Publishing: New Book “Savvy for the Social Web”
Last week I published a book on Amazon’s Kindle platform. It was a fairly straightforward process, although I had to take some care with the formatting. I wrote my book in Word and was fortunate that I did not have any images or tables. Had that been the case I feel that using HTML would […]
What Are the Best Free Websites for Learning and Productivity?
Today, there are tons of fascinating knowledge collections available for free on the open web. You can learn all about a new subject, acquire a new skill, or even take a complete university course from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection. Often the trouble is finding these best resources, […]
What’s the Business Model and Outlook for Dropbox?
With just about everyone in agreement that the future of computing is “in the cloud,” the personal cloud storage market, encompassing such services as Apple’s iCloud, Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive, will only continue to heat up in the next couple of years. Although there are some distinctions, such as file clouds, device clouds and […]
Are Texting and Tweeting Destroying the English Language?
In his book A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution, Dennis Baron poses the intriguing question of whether new writing technologies such as texting, email, and instant messaging are debasing the English language and doing major damage to society as a whole. He proceeds to dismiss these notions as overreactions, a point […]
What Are the Current 3G and 4G Technologies? WiMax vs. LTE
WiMax, which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is an IEEE standard for wide or metropolitan area networks (with the name of 802.16). As a wide area network (WAN), it provides network coverage to a very large area, offering high-speed data access. It uses point-to-multipoint architecture, which is a one-to-many connection. The […]