Screen capture (noun or verb) To create an image of what's on your computer screen. Synonyms: screengrab, screenshot.
Scroll down and you'll see this post contains several screenshots. You can see the value of capturing an image from a computer screen. It's easy to do with available software or keyboard shortcuts; ...
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of Americans use search engines, like Google, daily. According to my browser history, I visit Google 19 times a day, on average! So it's with that search obsession that in July, I completed my Masters thesis, titled "Media search ...
eMarketer posted a study today focusing on online marketing budget allocation of small businesses and not surprisingly, social networking has the highest budget increase over all other methods. 25% of small businesses say that they plan on spending "More" money on social networking while only 5% plan on spending "Less."
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On the same day Google announced their virtual world, Lively, would shut down at the end of the year, they unveiled their latest search engine technology - SearchWiki. Not a fully public, editable wiki in the sense of Wikipedia, the Google Blog reports that SearchWiki is "a way for you ...
Cuil, a new search engine created by many former Google employees, recently went live. Cuil (pronounced like "cool") is a search engine that differs from Google in two very important ways. First, page ranking is not determined by popularity, but instead by content analysis. (Google's algorithm relies on how often other ...
I use Google Alerts to stay on top of my company's image in the news and blogosphere. I automatically recieve an e-mail every time something new pops up, so rarely do I have to navigate to a search page and look for myself. Using Google Reader, I also use an ...
Just days after I wrote about techniques for finding information on Twitter, including Summize, a Twitter-specific search engine, the two have become one. The Twitter blog reports their micro-blogging service has acquired the popular search tool. This means that Summize is now available at search.twitter.com, and in the near future, a search ...
I read this Boston Globe article about customer complaints in social media, and one story caught my attention:
When C.C. Chapman noticed a blemish in his high-definition television's reception during the NBA playoffs recently, he blasted a quick gripe about Comcast into the online ether, using the social network Twitter.
Minutes later, ...
I ran into a new type of search engine today, called Mahalo. Mahalo is a community driven search engine, akin to what you would get if you took wikipedia and mashed it together with google.
You enter a search term (for example, I tried PS3) and you are taken to a ...
