Why QR Codes Won’t Last

Jon Barocas is the founder and CEO of bieMEDIA, a Denver-based online marketing and media solutions company that specializes in video content production and distribution, mobile visual search, technology platforms, SEO, VSEO and more. Like most technology fans, I am always ready and willing to try any technology that promises to simplify my life. QR codes seemed to present an accessible and uniform way for people with smart devices to interact with advertising, marketing and media. Those little...

Adding a site to Google

Inclusion in Google's search results is free and easy; you don't even need to submit your site to Google. Google is a fully automated search engine that uses software known as "spiders" to crawl the web on a regular basis and find sites to add to our index. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results aren't manually submitted for inclusion, but found and added automatically when our spiders crawl the web.   If you've just added a URL to your site, or a page has significantl

Men on Twitter Bicker More About Valentine’s Day Than Women Do

Male Twitter users are more disgruntled by Valentine’s Day than females. Although women post more tweets, men tend to take a more negative tone about the Feb. 14 holiday, according to new data from NM Incite.   The social analytics company inspected 70,000 recent tweets to discover that one-tenth of men’s tweets about Valentine’s Day are positive compared to one-fifth of women’s. For example, @Mamasp00n posted, “[F*ck] valentines

How Facebook and Twitter Help Sound the Official Earthquake Alarm

    When a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Philippines Monday, residents and local media outlets used Twitter and Facebook to alert residents and quell tsunami-inspired panic.   But they’re not the only ones using social media to sound a digital alarm when disaster strikes. Officials in the U.S. do that too.   The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a scientific agency of the U.S. government, is tasked in part with researching natur