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I am excited about the opportunities ahead that social networking presents. Right now, Facebook is shooting itself in the foot by compromising user trust with dubious moves on privacy issues. However, if Facebook plays its cards right and…

Internet search is broken. Battered by spammers, content farms and black hat optimizers, the typical Internet search is a horrible mess. Try basic search terms like "washing machine". Or try a term relevant to this site like…

Earlier this week Google disclosed that it had run a sting operation on its main search page which clearly ascertained that Bing, a competitor search engine by Microsoft, was using Google's search results to tweak its own search results.…

Interview with Michael Whalen In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak to Michael Whalen, Emmy award winning composer and new media observer, about the outlook for the business of creating and delivering content. …

Here's a CNBC Asia video that tells the story of the rise of the smartphone as a phone and computing device. I have been on this story for sometime. My view is that, just as computers have become super cheap (they were expensive once. I…

Links on Google Search, civil liberties and the European debt crisis plus a lot more.

This is about how site scrapers use loopholes in the Google Search algorithm to rank highly for content they scrape from the sites of others. These activities may eventually become an issue for regulatory officials since Google also earns…

To my eyes, this is looking like a repeat of the Macintosh-PC Wars of the 1990s which Apple lost. On the one side, you have Apple, competing at the high end and very concerned about platform integrity and control, and preventing other…

Apple had a blowout quarter on sales of iPhones and iPads when they reported after the bell. Steve Jobs went absolutely ballistic on Google during the conference call. His message: "We think Android is very, very fragmented and…

Of course they are. Watch this clip of Eric Schmidt to hear what he says in this regard. Is his experience in the telecom and technology space any different than what happens in the financial services space? The other quote that I found…