Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

Tomorrow, Steve Jobs will presumably unveil the new 3G iPhone in front of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. The anticipation has been pretty remarkable, even by tech-geek standards.

Already, breathless bloggers have been critiquing pictures of the new iPhone. One problem: the pictures appear to be fake. Very good fakes, but fake nonetheless. It didn’t stop Crunchgear from showing the photos with the headline, “Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design? Check! Different colors? Check! Video chatting? Check and check!” True excitement.
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At this point, Wikia Search is not the search engine you need. There are only 30 million indexed pages (”hardly a full crawl,” as Jimmy Wales puts it), and the results are sketchy and unreliable.

However, now Wikia Search is making the results heavily editable in a similar fashion as Wikipedia. I just did a search for our site, Equari, and it did not appear in the results. However, I was able to add equari.com, create a title and description for it, and spotlight it as the most relevant result for a search of “equari.”
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Currently, significant parts of Twitter are down (in fact, the whole website). However, instead of blaming the problems on scalability issues associated with Ruby on Rails (which is the most popular explanation about the problem), or their own slow reaction time to the problem, Twitter is choosing to blame its most loyal and heavy users, such as tech blogger ubermensch Robert Scoble.

Scoble follows 20,000 people on Twitter and is followed by about the same number. Obviously, he and similar users put a heavy strain on the system. His reply? “Please Twitter: fix your darn problems and stop blaming your users. You now have $15,000,000 in venture. You have no excuses anymore.”
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Of the $3.47 million Barack Obama spent on Internet advertising from January through April, over 80% of it has gone in to the coffers of Google Inc., according to information released by the Federal Election Commission. In contrast, Yahoo received about $352,000 and Microsoft received $73,000.

After spending $640,000 in January, Obama pumped his Internet spending to nearly $2 million in February, likely due to the big Super Tuesday battles waged in that month. He tapered spending off to $888,000 in March and although not all the reporting is in for April, he reduced spending significantly in that month as well.
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Time for that weekly Facebook update you and three other people have been waiting for. Upon reading through the reaction to today’s rumor that Facebook is about to make their platform open source, a lot of developers that have been working with Opensocial are claiming that it’s good for widgets, but not for apps.

MySpace, Facebook’s top competitor, already is signed up with Google’s Opensocial, along with Yahoo. In fact, as was reported a couple of weeks ago by Vasanth Sridharan, some developers have been gravitating toward Opensocial at the expense of Facebook. Undoubtedly, reports such as these have likely compelled Facebook to open up.
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