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Can the Yahoo handshake help Microsoft Vine?

Aug 30th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: Business over Web, Internet marketing, Trends!

After Bing, it is Vine on the Horizon for Microsoft. Is anybody taking notice? Not Google for sure.
To begin with Vine is still in beta phase  and is available by invitation only at vine.net. At first glance, Vine looks like a personal alert system where your group of friends and families get to know about [...]



Need to Blog while watching TV…Use your Remote!

Aug 29th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: Business over Web, Trends!

Lazybones must be giggling…Now we can set the couches and the blogosphere ablaze at the same time.

None other than IBM is trying to get a patent on a Remote – which will enable you to post a blog about the program you are watching. So, while you are with ‘Friends’ , you are connected to [...]



Twitter – Blabbersphere or semantics goldmine…

Aug 26th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: Business over Web, They Said It!

Everyone is going for it – 140 char tweets. Consumers, supporters, disgruntled men and women, corporate honchos, and big time authority bloggers are hurling it out at a furious pace ….

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Out of every 140 chars – only about 80 of them have some meaning – The rest 60, web-junk….That’s what the stats [...]



Trademarking ‘Tweet’ – Its not Twitter

Aug 25th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: CopperBridge Corridor!, Digital Advertising

Who else would want to trademark ‘Tweet’ ? Well, its not Twitter for sure. After a couple of tries, Twitter failed to trademark its own creation.

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When Twitter requested for the reasons of denial – it was a surprise to them too.
Apparently, many other companies had applied for trademarks of terms which were very [...]



After Bing, Its Google’s caffeine..

Aug 17th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: CopperBridge Corridor!, Googling, Search Engines

What about Caffeine? Why more of it? Well, it seems Google had enough of the Bingoo stuff and decided to launch a Search engine platform of its own. The beta phase caffeine is set to roll out very soon – and we can be sure of some excellent timing by the Google guys – [...]



What is Bing xRank?

Aug 10th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: CopperBridge Corridor!, Googling, Search Engines

Movie Stars, Musicians, Renowned Shakers and Movers, Billion dollar French Riviera Squatters …..and all those richie-rich who make heads turn are the focus of xRank. Bing algo ranks these hot-shots based on the most number of searches.
xRank will let you search for your favorite icon and will even ..

Tell you their popularity movement chart (how [...]



Why is Yahoo such a small site for Google?

Aug 7th, 2009 | ByVince Buffon | Category: Googling

ell, i was doing some back-link analysis for one of my clients and it was leading me nowhere. While i was about to try something else, I tried something very simple – out of sheer curiosity….I was anxious to know the number of pages that Yahoo had (that were indexed by Google). So, of i [...]



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