Most of us remember the Million Dollar Homepage. Launched by then-21-year-old Alex Tew, the idea was simple: sell a homepage containing 1 million pixels for $1/pixel. As might be expected, the reaction to the simple yet clever idea was mixed. Some thought it was brilliant, others thought it was stup...

I was asked the other day what I thought about Skittles' social media experiment and whether it would have lasting effects. My response: I wasn't sure. The buzz seems to have died down. Certainly it's nowhere near the pitch that it was when we all first learned that Skittles.com had been turned into...

It seems like everyone wants to develop apps for the iPhone these days. It's not hard to see why. Get-rich-quick stories and a plethora of unemployed techies have made the iPhone an appealing target for developers. There's only one problem: Apple is can't keep up with them and is leaving many of the...

Online scams are a billion dollar a year business. It has even been reported that, as far as profitability is concerned, online crime beats the drug trade. It's not hard to see why online crime has skyrocketed. Scammers don't even need to leave the comfort of their own homes to exploit the ample cri...

Gen Y, the demographic group generally considered to be those born somewhere between 1977 and 2000, is a group that marketers pay a lot of attention to. They're the multi-platform generation, consuming media on a variety of devices (including mobile phones). They're also said to be fickle and hard t...

It's hard to say that Rupert Murdoch's $550m acquisition of MySpace in 2005 wasn't a savvy move. Last year alone, despite missing revenue targets, MySpace pulled in more revenue than Murdoch paid to acquire the popular social network. But all does not appear to be well at the world's second-largest ...

That the newspaper business is ailing isn't exactly news. With some newspapers closing altogether and others doing what they can to deal with still-declining revenue, it's clear that the newspaper industry needs to adapt. The internet is increasingly the medium that newspapers are turning to as they...

Last week I wrote about Facebook's latest privacy flub which involved a change to the Facebook terms of service that didn't go over too well with Facebook users and the media. In response to this, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued his standard apology. But that apparently wasn't enough. Yesterda...

Question: what's the fastest way to get top SERPs on Google? Answer: after Google recently updated its algorithm, it just might be: be a big brand. seobook.com's Aaron wall has an interesting post showing how a number of big brands just started ranking for lucrative keywords such as 'airline tickets...

If you sell widgets, being #1 on Google for generic keywords like 'widgets', 'cheap widgets' and 'buy widgets' is the stuff of dreams. A top ranking for lucrative generic keywords can literally mean the difference between tens of thousands of dollars a month or more in revenue and no revenue whatsoe...