Author: Raphael Maio

AMPing up your website in 2018

Thinking about AMPing up your website in 2018? Hold on, do you even know what AMP stands for and how it could benefit your website? Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open source initiative by Google to improve the mobile web browsing performance as it has been on the rise. AMP loads faster on mobile […]

Voice Search-The Trending Form of Search

The Ultimate Complement to Multitasking Have you found yourself saying, “Alexa, where can I find a Chinese restaurant near me?” Or if you own an Apple product … “Siri, I need a plumber in Marietta.” My favorite is summoning Google from my android phone, “Ok Google, what is the temperature outside?” When you do this, […]

Tay Quickly Corrupted

Tay, Microsoft’s recent foray into social media chatbot technology, quickly became an offensive embarrassment for the company. Microsoft’s latest experiment in AI, a chatbot called Tay, went live on social media platforms recently.  Almost as quickly as we became aware of the launch, however, Microsoft was forced to take Tay offline.  She’d apparently picked up […]

Facebook Safety

Facebook safety and privacy is always a concern, and the company has some new tools in the works to help ensure both. Facebook safety and privacy concerns are being addressed through some new tools on the social media site.   At some point, all of us have concerns over the safety and privacy of the […]

Changes for Google+?

Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan, was recently hired to fill a prominent position with Google’s social media site, Google+.  Can big changes be far behind? It isn’t news that Google+, Google’s social media site, is a distant second to industry leader Facebook.  At the end of 2015, Google+ had about 418 million active users.  Facebook […]

Negative Reviews

Negative reviews can affect any business’s online reputation and ultimately its bottom line.  Here are a few ways your business can avoid negative reviews. Negative reviews have always been a concern of business owners.  In the past, word of mouth was perhaps the most widespread way to talk about a business, but in today’s world […]

Facebook Emoji Tracking

Facebook’s new emojis offer a wider range of quick reactions to posts but Facebook emoji tracking allows them to mold what appears in your News Feed. Facebook users recently saw new emoji options below their News Feed posts recently but these options have also allowed for improved Facebook emoji tracking. The addition of the new […]

Voice Recognition Software

Can voice recognition software help you improve your productivity? We take a look. Voice recognition software is becoming much more common in today’s gadgets. From composing texts on our phones to accessing devices like Amazon’s Echo, voice recognition software and apps continue to see improvements and integration. Voice recognition software is perhaps most useful in getting […]

Data Storage Forever

A new method of optical data storage can record large amounts of data in a small space and still be readable billions of years in the future. Data storage has always been one of the main components of information systems.  From the punched cards of early computers through today’s smallest drives, data storage has come […]

Windows 10 Update Strategy

Windows 10 becomes a recommended update for all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, signalling a new phase in Microsoft’s marketing. Windows 10 has been slowly making its way onto PCs over the last several months.  Much of this is probably thanks to the surprising free-to-upgrade option.  This has paid dividends in terms of Windows […]