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Google Drive vs Dropbox | Battle of Privacy in the Cloud?

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 at 2:19 am 10 Comments

I don’t generally trust free Internet services. While I use things like Google services and a lot of social media, I always plan for those services to change or be gone. Online storage services like Dropbox, iCloud, and even YouSendIt bring the whole privacy issue to a new level…

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Can Apple Technology Save US Education? | Infographic

Posted in Apple, Articles on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 1:24 am No Comments

I have been teaching digital media and Internet marketing on the collegiate level for about 2 years and using technology is absolutely necessary for my classes and my students. Does it make them more interested in the topic? I would have to answer that it depended on the class…

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Facebook’s Possible IPO Details | Infographic

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Saturday, January 14th, 2012 at 3:10 pm No Comments

For months now there have been rumors floating around that 2012 would be the year of the Facebook IPO (initial public offering). While many users and would-be investors are chomping at the bit for their chance to own part of one of the largest social networks on the planet,…

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The Truth About Facebook and Grades

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 1:35 am No Comments

Facebook and social media have been called tools of “mass distraction”. It is a common assumption that things like social media and the Internet distract people and students from the work they need to do. But is that true? A new study is out that could make you think…

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Google 101: Get More Out of Google

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 12:27 pm No Comments

Google has been around since 1998 and has become the go to site on the Internet for search. Even though it has been around for a while, it seems like a lot of users don’t know how to use it properly or take advantage of all it’s features. Even…

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Thank you, Steve Jobs, for the inspiration

Posted in Apple, Articles on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 9:57 pm No Comments

Death is something that is somewhat a foreign concept to me. I have a fairly small family that isn’t really close to each other. Throughout my now 31 years of life when family members have died, I was never really affected because I frankly didn’t know them at all….

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Sprint & iPhone 4S Release = Missed Marketing Opportunity

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 10:42 pm 2 Comments

In case you have been hiding under a rock, you most likely heard that Apple released the new iPhone 4S yesterday. To some it is a huge announcement, to others that were expecting the release of the iPhone 5 it was disappointing. To me, a long time Sprint and…

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SOLUTION: Built in Mac iSight not working with Facebook Video Call

Posted in Apple, Articles on Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 11:50 pm 4 Comments

As many of you probably heard yesterday, Facebook and Skype have paired up and now you can not only chat with friends on Facebook, you can also have video calls with them!

Eager to test it out, I downloaded the software/plugin via Chrome on my Mac and my wife did…

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Observations on Google+

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 11:03 pm No Comments

Totally agree with Shel Holtz on a lot of his points. Don’t much see Google+ as a “Facebook Killer”… then again, it is still early. Biggest problem, I agree with is that there are over 750 million people using Facebook. I’m using Google+ because I work in the…

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Facebook Deals could be bigger than Groupon

Posted in Internet Marketing on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 11:53 pm No Comments

It seems one of the fastest growing type of website on the Internet is a deal/coupon service. The biggest of these so far is Groupon but there is…

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