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Graeme Lipschitz is a Business Development manager at Clicks2Customers.com. He has previously worked for Google UK and Google South Africa as a lead account strategist, growing accounts in the Travel, Finance and Retail sectors.
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Facebook recently argued in court that the “Like” feature is an integral part of free speech. A lawyer for the company argued that “Likes” are “vital” to the 500m people who use Facebook every day and that they should be protected by the US Constitution.“Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for communication the Internet has made possible,” Aaron Panner, Facebook Inc. (FB)’s lawyer said.The court ruling ...
In what is widely seen as a political move against Apple, Google has forked WebKit into “Blink” which it describes as “an inclusive open source community” and ”a new rendering engine based on WebKit” that is going to “naturally evolve in different directions.”The biggest change users can expect to see is in all Chrome-based applications in the near future. According to Google VP of Engineering Linus Upson its engineers were feeling constrained by WebKit’s technical complexity and wanted to ...
Surfing isn't exactly the sport one would associate with startups, but there's a lot to be learned from hanging ten that applies to the world of online business:Know the conditions
Ideal surfing conditions are a cumulation of swell, tides and wind. Ideally, offshore conditions hold up he wave, giving the surfer more surface area on which to surf. Similarly, startups should have an idea of what their market's conditions are -- for example: knowing that iOS users monetise better than ...
You’ve got to have been hiding under a rock not to know about the Oscar Pistorius case unfolding in Pretoria and on almost every news website globally. The world’s global off and online media have physically scrummed to get into the courtroom as global viewership has soared in what is set to be the court case of 2013.What’s heightened the interest in the case, apart from the incredibly bizarre circumstances of Reeva Steenkamp’s death, is the realtime reporting and discussion ...
With the launch of Graph Search, Facebook now allows users to see the people who post stupid quotes as content, and avoid them. Far from groundbreaking and definitely not its greatest innovation, Facebook hasn't stolen the march on Google+ at all with its new product. In fact, it's done Google some favours:Anti-trust and FaceBing: (I refer to it as FaceBing because it sounds a lot like Facepalm) Facebook is using Bing to produce web results associated with what is being ...
Last year I wrote an article called Google 2012: an internet oddysey which extolled my view of what Google would do in 2012. This is a review of that article as well as a gaze into the crystal ball of what might happen for el Goog in 2013.First up, last year's review in bullet points (so we don’t spend too much time on them) with a score out of 10 based on how well I thought the prediction did:Hyper Local ...
2012 was a year in which technology and media companies were engaged in a veritable hive of activity and it produced a few winners and more losers. When taking a period of activity in review, I often talk about pits and peaks. Let’s take a look at some of Tech’s “pits and peaks” of 2012:AcquisitionsPitZynga’s acquisition of OMGPOP: Zynga bought OMGPOP, the creators of Draw Something in March and have since posted less than impressive earnings, and while the stock ...
This year has been pretty amazing for society: we have pushed ourselves and broken some boundaries. A curious little rover explored the surface of Mars, a man jumped from space and Google is taking on Siri.There have been some pretty cool tech innovations this year and we decided to pick a few of the ones that impressed us the most. We expect some difference of opinion here, however, these innovations came out tops in our books.Here you go, ...
Google’s Q3 earnings call saw its stock plummet nine percent as it announced profits and revenues that were lower than analyst’s bullish expectations. Larry Kim, Wordstream’s Founder and CTO, has been very busy pulling up some interesting Google Adwords stats which, he says, indicate that CPCs on its advertising platform have gone down:I analyzed a billion dollars (USD) of paid search advertising and found:* Q3 2012, the cost per click for google ads was going down a lot (-16.5% for ...
Surprisingly little has been said about Facebook’s foray into social banking. In July this year, Citigroup asked its Facebook fans whether they would ever bank on a social networking site and the question raised more than 300 comments, most of which weren’t positive. Despite the sentiment, Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has already gone ahead and provided its social media savvy users with an app that allows them to view their balances and, critically, make payments.For many (including this writer), the ...
