Sergey Brin’s Blog
By Grant | September 18, 2008
I’m not sure if it’s a hoax or not, but apparently Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has a blog.
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One Year Revival
By Grant | September 15, 2008
Well, it’s been pretty much a year since my last post. I think the hiatus is now over and it’s time to get back to work! Well, I’ve been hard at work for this year, just not blogging. Time to get back to blogging and getting the PageRank up! Much has happened in this last year. We’ve bought and sold a house, changed jobs, and now I’m focused even more on Online Marketing from within my current company.
As for blog content, a lot of interesting and cool web applications keep popping up all over the place and I find myself wondering what I ever did without them. I’m going to start reviewing some of my favourites on this blog. Check out the page in the navigation above called “Cool Web Apps“. Or just click that link.
Additionally, I’ve taken an even greater interest in Online Lead Generation, B2B Lead Generation, and Lead Nurturing, so I’ll start posting a bit more on those items as well.
Check out the sidebar to the left as I’ll be embedding new widgets there on a regular basis to try them out and see if they’re any good. Right now I have one from Google Reader and Twitter. I tried installing one from Ask500 but it doesn’t seem to be working right now.
Hope you all are well!
-Grant
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Google Sky
By Grant | August 23, 2007
Their mission: “is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Well, it looks as though they’ve taken it one step further and are now organizing the universe’s information and make it accessible and useful to the world. Google has brought together thousands of star maps, glass plate photos, Hubble data and photos from observatories around the world and embedded them into their product, Google Earth. The new features require a free download of the new version of Google Earth.
Have a look at their promo video below.
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CNN - YouTube.com Presidential Debates
By Grant | July 22, 2007
As you may or may not know, the 2008 United States Presidential race is underway. In recent years the effect of the Internet on elections has been increasingly hyped in the media, starting primarily with McCain’s Republican Primary surge in the 2000 election. And now tomorrow, July 23rd, the US 2008 election, the media, and the Internet shall converge in a fully orchestrated manner.
The July 23rd debate is especially interesting for those of us in the Web 2.0 space and interested in seeing how the interactive Internet can be used in the political arena. CNN will host the debate in conjunction with YouTube. New Media YouTube teaming up with Old Media CNN, you say? It allows for some interesting interactivity- namely, American Citizens can make videos of themselves asking questions of the presidential candidates. Anyone can ask a presidential candidate a question by submitting a video here.
I write this on the eve of the debate, July 22nd; there are over 2384 submissions so far tonight. After sampling a few there appear to be some genuine quality questions. You can have a look at a number of the submissions by hitting this page on YouTube. The opportunity exists to really revolutionize and engage the electorate in debate- talk about hands on “grass roots” politics on a national scale. This is the stuff the Internet was made for. I truly hope this can become a new and established format so that all us little guys can engage large networks and new media giants and connect with leaders of all types, from politicians to CEOs.
The debate is for the Democrats and will air for two hours starting at 7 p.m. EST. The next one will air on September 17th for the Republicans. Anderson Cooper has been slated to moderate and is reported to offer between 20 and 30 questions. In an elaborate campaign that equally advertises CNN, YouTube, and parent company Google, the debate will feature geographical locations of questioners on Google Earth maps; and oversized projector screens streaming questions by visitors to the site.
I look forward to watching the event, which takes place in Charleston South Carolina, to see exactly how these YouTube user questions are integrated into the CNN hosted event. Will they air the truly challenging questions or will they stick to easy ones and simply emphasize the YouTube “questions from the mouths of the electorate” angle as a Web 2.0 novelty and publicity stunt for those companies involved?
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