San Francisco is a hotbed of tech development and activity. I continue to be impressed with the conferences I attend here, they are so very geeky and that is something I enjoy. MobileAppCon 2012 was a small conference, but a good one. My favorite speakers were: Sam Shank – Hotel Tonight Ron Conway – SV […]
We’ve all seen the headlines, whether it’s Google paying record fines or Facebook making our personal data up for grabs. Every day there is some sort of threat to our online privacy. While I believe our notion of privacy will continue to evolve over time, there are a few free ways to protect yourself online. […]
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 […]