Archive for Jim’s Digital Lab
Facebook Makes ‘Pages’ Better – So They Say
Anyone who has been on Facebook for longer than a year probably feels a sense of frustration when your comfortable Facebook business page is changed for seemingly no reason.
Phasing Out Old Versions of Internet Explorer
When we build websites for our clients, one of the challenges with which we have to deal is cross-browser compatibility.
Social Media Timing
A lot of social media professionals (those who do social media for a living) are looking for answers to a couple of very interesting questions: what’s the best time to tweet on Twitter, and to share a post on Facebook? There are a number of research studies beginning to provide some clarity on these and [...]
New Stan Utley Book Goes High Tech
Our good friend Stan Utley has a new instruction book hitting brick-and-mortar and online bookstores on May 12.
Beware of Flash Cookies – Unless You Are An Advertiser!
Most people who’ve used the Internet long enough have become fairly proficient at knowing how to flush cookie code snippets from their browser files. And, most also know how to delete browsing “history” which shows the sites you’ve recently visited. Keeping your cookie and history codes purged is not a bad practice because of various [...]
Is the Internet as We Know It Over?
Consumers and businesses that count on the Internet have been alarmed by some dire warnings in recent news stories that the Internet is going to stop working.
Blackberry PlayBook
Leave it to Research in Motion (RIM), parent company of the Blackberry product line, to take a good idea from a competitor (Apple) and try to one-up it through product positioning. It seems to be the way the technology industry works best…some companies are the trailblazers out there on the “bleeding edge,” while other companies [...]
Google Instant
Google has introduced a new product for its primary search function: Google Instant. If you go to Google’s main search page and begin typing a search query, you’ll see that with each keystroke of your search query, the search results and surrounding search ads that appear on those pages will be automatically updated…instantly. Google has [...]
Is That a TV in Your Living Room?
If you remember television in the 1960′s or 1970′s, you may recall that you had about three channel flavors from which to choose: ABC, NBC and the “Tiffany” network, CBS. In the 1980′s and the 1990′s, a new distribution platform began to emerge…cable networks delivering far more channels. Those initial cable channels, with very low [...]
iPhone App for Micropayments
Mobile technology has emerged as the fastest growth sector for hardware and software vendors. Since smart phones have become so ubiquitous, we are all walking around with devices in our pockets or clipped to our belts that offer unique opportunities to communicate, consume media of all kinds, search for information, and yes…buy goods and services. [...]