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The Pope is said to be fond of new technologies

Pope Benedict XVI has launched his own dedicated channel on the popular video sharing website, YouTube.

Video and audio footage of his speeches as well as news of the Holy See will be posted on the site, the Vatican says.

Although the Vatican has its own website, the YouTube venture represents its biggest reach into cyberspace, Vatican officials say it is aimed at everyone from devout Catholics to the casual web user. Read the rest of this entry »

It is no surprise to Webidiotz that Google has announced total revenue was $5.7bn – up 18% compared with the same quarter the previous year. Apple, the technology giant, made a record net profit of $1.61bn (£1.15bn) and posted record revenue of $10.7bn for the final quarter. Read the rest of this entry »

Still uncertain how to start your online-marketing efforts this year? Here’s some practical guidance that will soon have you on your way to success.

10. Borrow and Share

Share your content, borrow others’. This is a really simple concept, but due to decades of a winner-take-all, competitive scarcity-model mentality, it’s a hard philosophy for most marketers to embrace. Read the rest of this entry »

Just before the New Year, I was having lunch with my good friend, a restaurateur; I’ll call him Chef M. We were eating at one of Chef M’s two highly regarded, very successful neighborhood bistros in Portland, OR. My rockfish was a gorgeous plate of buttery, flaky goodness. Across the table, his duck confit looked scary delicious.

We were meeting to discuss some Web site/blog/social media ideas for his soon-to-be-launched third restaurant, scheduled to open this spring. (Yes, notwithstanding the end of capitalism as we know it, he is opening a third restaurant.) Read the rest of this entry »

China’s online population, already the world’s largest, has expanded to 298 million. This marks a 41.9% increase on the previous year and is still growing fast, said the government-linked China Internet Network Information Centre.

The study also showed huge increases in the number of people in China accessing the internet through mobile phones.

The report by Cinic also noted that internet use in the countryside was increasing faster than in the cities. Read the rest of this entry »

Two sets of figures out today confirmed what I’d expected – that amidst all the economic gloom, online retailing continued to boom at Christmas.

One set of statistics came from Nielsen Online, which puts web traffic under the microscope. Its report says that traffic to the top ten UK retail websites was up by 37% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the previous year. Ready to buy Read the rest of this entry »

Well, okay cyber-readers, here’s my first attempt.

SWITCHING GEARS

Staring down your 40th birthday makes you want to jump off a bridge or make some drastic changes in your life. Well, its affecting me like that. And obviously, I’ve opted for the “drastic change” or I wouldn’t be blogging. Read the rest of this entry »