Only 960 of 4800 People Use Google™

One might think that; with all the mentions in the movies; Google™ is the end all be all for search. Yet, according to Forrester, only 20% of surfers use Google™ for search exclusively.

Forrester Research finds that just 20% of searchers use Google exclusively. The survey of more than 4,800 searchers also found that people thought Microsoft and Yahoo were better engines for news, finance and media content; Yahoo also trumped Google when it came to the site users identified as their home page. Forbes Magazine

With a new CEO in both camps, both MSN™ and Yahoo!™ are still not to be left out of the picture; and what about Jeeves (Ask™)…

Then again, Google™ themselves have always reported to their shareholders that search is NOT their main revenue stream; advertising is. Yet, the ads will go where the eyes are.

hmmm…

Out Smart the SmartPhone

Staying cutting edge in a screwed up economy can be a definite challenge. Luckily, however, many developers start their careers out like the average musician; with no money and a boatload of ideas.

Yet, unlike the tools needed to make a dent in the music world; many of the development tools available to developers are free. This means a lot of useful applications & software can be created by hungry developers wanting to stake their claim; which allows them to pass these savings off to the consumer public. Thus creating a win-win situation; the consumer gets good cool & useful stuff and the developer gets some kudos.

One such situation has been created over at Fring.com

fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection.

Hey! Now you can pass those savings over to actually being able to justify a $2.50 cup of coffee.

You can learn even more time & money saving ideas from this Forbes Article I ran across.

OMG!! My Hard Drive Crashed!! AUAUGHGH!!!

Now, NOBODY wants to be the one yelling that defunct battle cry. Yet, as much as we’d like it to be; (and even as much as we go into denial thinking it could be); technology is NOT perfect. There is always the chance that we could run into this unfortunate mishap.

Backing up our mission critical data is much like paying for life insurance. We don’t wanna think about it, but if we have it in place everything just flows better. Problem is, backing up data hasn’t been made as simple as purchasing life insurance.. well, until now with the advent of The Cloud.

With direct access to Outlook™ & MS Office™, CloudBuddy makes utilizing Amazon’s S3 Cloud Storage that much more practical for the average person. Not to mention the inherent uses for the business person.

Your desktop is now a click away. Log in and explore from anywhere. Let your virtual desktop reside on Amazon’s Cloud Infrastructure, while you access, share, upload and download your files and folders.

• Store, retrieve and share Word docs, spreadsheets and presentations using CloudBuddy’s MS Office plug-in
• Store, share, retrieve and mange your MS Outlook mailbox, tasks, calendar, contacts etc
• Upload & Download files synchronously
• Allows you to configure and use multiple Amazon S3 accounts
• Multiple system can be configured to work with the same S3 account

They even have an SDK for developers! Gotta love technology, man!