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Fear the Googler, not the Google

We're way past what Chris most fears, all of us. It takes just a few minutes with the Google to collect highlights of all the personal data and insights of any of us. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Chris Matyszczyk, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-11-12

comScore suggests Britain is the online home of truth

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explains why British media sites attract so much attention from non-native readers. comScore, a company that has received permission from more than 2 million people to monitor their online behavior, has released findings that suggest when the world is looking for the truth,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., British Broadcasting Corp., ComScore Networks Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Performance Management, Government, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Is Nintendo about to challenge Jenny Craig?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the power of Nintendo's Wii and virtual gaming to improve the health and well being of society. Depending on whose statistics you prefer to disbelieve, between 15 and 25 percent of American children are overweight. The causes seem evident...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Fact, Games, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-02-16

If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg’s new book, “Nerds.” Last week, I wrote about the concept of being a nerd. And about a book called “Nerds: Who They...

Tags: Dr., Real World, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo--it's a Tom Cruise story

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk puts Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo in layperson terms. I once went to dinner with a very well-known TV actress. When she flew to New York to do Regis and Kelly, she stayed at the Ritz-Carlton in New York. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Tom Cruise, Yahoo! Inc., Legend, Story, Microsoft Corp., Branding, Gender And Diversity, Marketing, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-06

If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 1)

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk examines what it means to be a nerd in part 1 of his review of David Anderegg's new book, "Nerds." Do you ever take an instant dislike to people, without ever really examining why that might be? In my...

Tags: Dr., Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Ohmigod! Social networkers just can't take it any more!

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk parses the latest numbers from ComScore on social network activity. While looking for something that amused me and stopped me from replying to the likeness quiz invitation and seventy others from lonely Japanese friends on Facebook, I stumbled upon some numbers from ComScore...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Minute, ComScore Networks Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Facebook's social pyramid schemers

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk laments the way some Facebook applications behave, creating what he calls "pre-pubescent pyramid selling." I have friends who seem to have a strangely close relationship with Facebook. Even though their profile says they are "in a relationship," they seem to spend a...

Tags: Facebook, Quiz, Friend, Social Networking, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-27

Another great contribution to humanity from the folks who brought you Chuck E. Cheese and Atari

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explores the latest high-tech concept in dining from Nolan Bushnell, of Chuck E. Cheese and Atari fame. We all have our bad waiter stories. I confess that recently, in Europe, I sat in a restaurant for almost an hour waiting for a...

Tags: Restaurant, Atari Inc., uWink, Squares, Games, Personal Technology, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Human Resources, Internet, Nick Carr, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-01-14

At last, a tech company that can help you sniff out a life partner

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a look at ScientificMatch, a site that claims it will find you that special someone with the help of a test tube. I have friends who tried match.com. They met people who frightened them. And only sometimes because they looked nothing...

Tags: Partnership, DNA, Gene, Site, Scientificmatch.com, System Gene, Business Structures, Biotechnology, Litigation, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?

I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Emerging Technologies, Robot, Robots, Technology

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Oh, go on, techies, read some bloody fiction during the holidays

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk offers some reading suggestions for this holiday season, when techies should be taking a respite from their digital labors. It is holiday time, and, in my tech naivete, I am assuming that the hard-working, soft-partying readers of this site take a few hours,...

Tags: Advertisement, Movie, Techie, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Will co-habitation be a new business for Facebook?

Guest post: Fresh from a sojourn to UK where he grew up, Chris Matyszczyk considers the latest trend in London home buying--speed-dating via Facebook to find co-buyers for real estate purchases. When I think of England, I think of poverty. Poverty of weather, poverty...

Tags: Facebook, Poverty, Image, Sharetobuy.com, Mortgages, Real Estate, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-18

AskEraser takes on Google, Yahoo and Jason Bourne

So here we all are sharing all our latest news with everyone on MySpace and Facebook ("I just went to the loo!!!" "My baseball cap just fell off on the Golden Gate Bridge!!!") when along comes Ask.com and, appropriately, asks the question: "Hold on. Are our egos...

Tags: Google Inc., MLB, Search Engine, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Server, AskEraser, Ask, Search, Investment, Finance, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Are the people telling Google it's time for a redesign?

I was waiting at an airport for a very long flight the other day when I came across the Search Results League Table. This was the one declaring that, for example, Jessica Alba was the 10th most popular search inquiry on Yahoo. Yes, only 10th. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Public Relations, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-07

What are the best interests of advertisers on Facebook?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk, who has spent 15 years as a creative director crafting messages for advertisers, explains what advertisers really want in the age of Facebook. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg took this weekend off. You know, hung out at Starbucks,...

Tags: Facebook, Brand, Advertiser, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Can Burt Reynolds inspire lust for Michael Dell's products?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a surreal tour of Dell's Star Power holiday shopping Web site featuring Burt Reynolds and other celebrities. If you searched the Web for the next month, how many times do you think you’d find the words "Michael," "Dell" and "lust" in the...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Chris, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Branding, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk writes that the greatest commercial battle currently is between the ad and the algorithm, between predictability and "ticklability." Facebook needs to figure out how to make its users feel like they aren't being sold up the river. Even when you go to...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Banking, Chris, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Is God on technology's side? Or is it the other way around?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds that the Web accommodates all kinds of bloggers, including a nun who says she is "wildly enthusiastic about our mission of putting communications technology at the service of the Gospel." One of the more rewarding things about the Web is that...

Tags: Web, Bible, Technology, God, Sister Anne, Chris, Channel Management, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-16