Marketing for Soccer Brands: 10 FAQs Answered
The U.S. soccer industry is booming, with over 14 million players driving demand for gear, apparel, and training tools. But with giants like Nike and Adidas competing alongside upstart Shopify brands, standing out requires more than just a logo on a ball or jersey. At Blackbird e-Solutions, LLC, we specialize in helping soccer brands capture […]
Net Neutrality – Oh Here We Go Again – FCC Please Keep Fighting!!
It’s been a long time since I wrote about this, and it’s unfortunate that I have to once again. Today (Tuesday, January 14, 2014), a U.S. appeals court rejected federal rules that stated that Internet providers treat all web traffic equally. This once again raises the threat of broadband and mobile carriers charging content providers […]
DNS Issues With Network Solutions Causing Outages
Network Solutions, a registrar for domain names, is having some sort of outage today which is causing their DNS not to resolve. Anyone that has their domain registered with Network Solutions may be experiencing issues with access to their site. This is impacting some of our clients as well as many other sites across the […]
Mercedes Ad – Great Use of Double Take Photography
This is a great use of double take photography. The Mercedes Benz advertisement: A car that always looks fast. Even when it’s parked!
HootSuite Users Can Now Use HootSuite to Manage Their Google+ Pages
After asking and asking and well… asking again, HootSuite users can now use HootSuiite to manage their Google+ pages! HootSuite is an online dashboard that allows people manage multiple social media accounts as well as work with teams. When working with a team you can do such things as assign tweets to your team members, […]
Awesome Google I/O Project Glass Demo
This was definitely a great product demo! A jump from a Zeppelin, mt. biking across a roof top with a jump, repelling down a building and mt. biking to the stage. There was so much that could have gone wrong, but it went quite smoothly. Great work Sergey! Do you think you’ll buy Google Glasses?
Dear Congress: Reform Copyright Law, Stop Piracy, Don’t Break Internet
By now I hope you have already heard something about the bills that the US government is discussing: SOPA and PIPA. A very basic description is that the laws would give the government free reign to shutdown, seize domains and websites from sites that they deem to be breaking copyright laws. There is also a […]
Is Google Walling Out the Rest of the Internet to Make Their Search Better?
In the last few months we’ve seen a number of changes released by the search powerhouse Google. The updates are coming at a fast and furious pace. Today’s addition as well as one of their previous changes have been doing more than raise a few eyebrows. There is sure to be more talk about anti-trust […]
Is Crowdsourcing as Smart as We Hope?
Yesterday, I came across an interesting Peta Pixel: Why You Shouldn’t Give Too Much Weight Too Anonymous Online Critics, and it got me thinking. Briefly, here’s what what the the post was about: In 2006 a guy name André Rabelo submitted the photo below to group called DeleteMe!, where members of the group vote on […]
Times Are Changing – It Really is a Digital Age
This is a bit old, but very interesting to see how much has changed in the last Decade. Look at how the cost of storage has dropped, the production of CDs was cut in half and iTunes dowloads have exploded.
Vuvuzelas for Everyone!
if you have become so accustomed to the droning in your head that you want it part of your everyday life. The bright folks over YouTube might just have an answer for you.
Facebook Releases “Open Graph”: What the Heck Does That Mean?
On Wednesday Facebook announced how users can expand their social experience to the entire web.
