Andrew Mager

Category Archives: Internet

CNET Networks is now CBS Interactive

We got the memo this morning.

“Together, CBS and CBS Interactive represent an unbeatable combination of premium content online, premium content on air, and premium audiences. As a leading online media network, CBS Interactive has an impressive portfolio of brands, including CNET, CBSSports.com, CBS.com, GameSpot, TV.com, BNET, and Last.fm, to name a few. Together, we […]

This is not what Twitter is for

Twitter asks, “What are you doing?”, not “Please paste any thing under 140 here that you want.”

Josh Chandler is a smart guy that has a good blog and makes interesting videos, but he just lost a Twitter follower.
Josh, try Plurk or Pownce for sharing links and other media.
Also bad: retweeting
I blame Twhirl for this:

Plurk has Twitter beat on interactivity

I logged into Plurk for the first time in a week yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that people had responded to my messages.
Once you get the hang of it, you can have a lot of fun with it.
I strongly recommend that you start Plurking!

Learn SEO from a Google webmeister

Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without […]

Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And […]

Interpersonal Communication 2.0

By now, you are probably a master at IMing and chatting with friends online. You use AIM, YIM, Adium, and IRC. GChat and Facebook Chat work well in the browser, but there is chatter of a slimmer client, and it doesn’t go down every day like Twitter.

Welcome to Chatterous, the next generation of chatting on […]