Farmville, Mafia Wars and Dream Heights are just a few of the successes social gaming powerhouse Zynga has produced. With success, controversy is never far behind. No stranger to controversy Zynga has been sued for patent infringement and accused of cloning competitors games by the developers of Tiny Tower. These past events pale in contrast […]
This is our second blog on Yahoo in a week, which is kind of odd yet zesty to me. I’m happy that we are entertaining thoughts about the growth of a company that many wrote off, a la myspace. For the record, I have not written Yahoo off and do not plan to. Despite the […]
Online web security is a hot issue in 2012, Yahoo was reminded of this today after suffering a MySQL injection attack resulting in the publishing of 453,492 usernames and passwords. A group called D33DS Company has taken responsibility for the hack and leak of user information. Its speculated that Yahoo! Voice service was the main target of the attack, formally known as Associated […]
Apple and Samsung are mobile’s largest and most prominent companies. They both dominate the landscape heavily. Apple Inc., previously helmed by the innovator and businessman Steve Jobs, was the force behind highly iconic gadgets such as the iPod mp3 player, the iPhone, iPad and MacBook notebook computers. The South Korean Samsung Electronics, on the other […]
We see it in the news more and more every day. Companies and individuals are getting attacked online. There are entire websites and public service announcements dedicated to stopping cyberbullies. There is no shortage of weirdos in the world. If you’re attacked online it’s natural to want to react to this type of behavior, but […]
At CircleClick we REALLY like social media, because using it means the inevitable discovery of new friends. I think most people are interested in expanding their network (especially if it involves an ego boost somehow). Why exactly does Social Media really matter for business? My first reason social media matters is that nobody is really […]
While the success of Facebook may have seemed like it happened overnight, it was nearly a decade in the making. The same is true for many seemingly ‘overnight’ successes. When Facebook went public last Friday, many people were expecting a stock price that would soar well above the initial price of $38 a share. This […]
Everyone is a flutter in Silicon Valley right now, wondering what the circumstances are for Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson’s firing. Was he fired? Did he step down? It doesn’t really matter. He committed fraud. Rounding out information on a resume is a questionable practice, but one that is very common. It’s like everyone cheating on […]
If you told me a year ago that someone could earn $1 billion dollars by posting photos (which are lower quality) on Facebook I would have laughed at you. Well clearly Instagram is the bus driver, cause they took us to school…! For those of of you who do not know, Instagram is a mobile […]
This year’s SXSW interactive blew me away. Never has it been busier. I remember many years ago getting free passes THROWN at me in hopes I would attend. There used to be just one panel discussion hidden away in the corner and nobody was really watching it. A few years later I got to attend […]