Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy writes in a new report that “The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined.” Facebook users who access the social networking site through a mobile device are twice as active as users who don’t. It’s no surprise then to see the announcement of Salesforce.com’s Chatter Mobile, a mobile client for the company’s increasingly popular Chatter social networking and microblogging platform.
The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called “social objects.” We’ve covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times profiled a third company in this space over the weekend, Itizen.
The Internet is a series of tubes – man, that joke just doesn’t get old. Or rather, the Internet is a series of text documents. That isn’t so funny if you’re trying to optimize your search engine rankings for video content on your website. Other than the title and description, videos don’t provide the text that robots from Google and others use to create those search rankings. You can, of course, transcribe your videos but that can be time-intensive and cost-prohibitive, particularly if your site is video-heavy.
Here at ReadWriteWeb, like other major blogs, we get a ton of email tips everyday from entrepreneurs, PR companies and the general public suggesting story ideas and requesting product reviews.
Google rolled out a new inbox last week that, in theory, separates your important emails from your unimportant emails and lets you speed through work faster.