Yesterday Facebook announced that they now have 500 million active users.  That’s pretty impressive for a company that started in 2004 as an exclusive network only open to certain schools. Facebook has come a long way though; it certainly isn’t the same Facebook I fell hard for in my freshman dorm at University of Arkansas. [...]

Changing the film industry one click at a time.

The funny looking box you see above is a not new technology; however the QR Code is pretty foreign to us in the U.S. QR stands for Quick Response. In the next decade, I believe QR codes will start popping up in U.S. media providing our culture with what we love best; content delivery that [...]

Over the past couple of months there has been quite a bit of banter on the web about whether or not search engine optimization (SEO) will finally fall on its face in 2010. This has been a perennial argument for at least the past ten years, maybe longer. After all, Google keeps updating its algorithm [...]

Well, I am about to take the plunge into the world of smartphones. These hands were made to T9, but my thumbs are getting sore. After weeks of debating I have come to the conclusion that, to me, it is worth it. Worth the extra money I will have to fork over to partake in [...]

My name is Ann Marie, and I am the newest addition to the Red McCombs Media team. I am a senior at THE University of Texas. Hook ‘em! I am an advertising major interested in the new business and account services area as well as client management.
Online is the present and the future of our [...]

Flickr has been my favorite photo application for as long as I can remember. Tagging, sharing, commenting, distributing, it makes me want to carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I love participating in social media, and I love taking pictures.
When Twitter took the web by storm, it was just natural that people would [...]

So my former cynicism regarding the launch of Bing has been tempered by my initial experiences with the search engine. I still haven’t switched my default search tool to Bing, but I am intrigued that Microsoft will “buy” my loyalty with Bing Cashback. I discovered this when doing a side-by-side comparison of Google & Bing’s [...]

Yet another “new” search engine, Bing.com, was released yesterday this time by Microsoft. This is another in a string of new search engines that are supposed to revolutionize the way we search, so far, I have been underwhelmed. Upon their launch, AskJeeves.com, Ask.com and now Bing.com all promised to provide internet users with a superior [...]

Is new media advertising simply banners on websites? Video ads? Or maybe new media is sponsored text listing on search engines? Hmmm. Oh, I know, new media is Social marketing. No No No – it’s viral marketing through some catchy, funny or controversial content distributed through video. WOW, how silly of me, it’s got to [...]