The recent market fiasco has everyone wondering whether Web 2.0 is alive or dead? The technology is indeed still alive (and advancing) but the focus is changing towards Web 3.0.

When the internet bubble burst in the early 2000s it acted as the dividing line between Web 1.0 (the original web) and Web 2.0. Web 2.0 didn’t commence the day after the bubble burst but rather it evolved over time with the rise of search, social networking, blogs, online videos and user generated content. Whereas Web 1.0 was about putting offline information (books, news, brochures) online, Web 2.0 is about sharing that information via social networks, blogs, online video, social messaging, etc. Web 3.0 will evolve with the integration of all this information into deeper analytical studies of online (and human) interaction, consumption behaviors & consumer data. A move more towards the semantic web.

Not only do I think that Web 3.0 will be about the quantifying of Web 2.0’s user generated data but I believe the focus (of web applications) will change.

In business, they’ll take a more active role in utilizing social networks and messaging platforms to communication with clients. This online interaction is efficient, effective and measurable, which provides corporations with analytical interaction to quantify and measure customer feedback like never before. The web has been evolving in this direction but the recent economic mess will force firms to embrace this technology now. The need to cut costs and be more accountable will propel the web towards Web 3.0 much faster than anticipated. 

The second main change from Web 2.0 to 3.0 will be about focus. This past month has seen two monumental events. The financial collapse of the world economy and a historical election that broke centuries of racial inequality in the United States. Obama’s message was all about change and not only will there be change at home but also a movement towards changing the world’s perception of us. This means instead of meaningless applications that rate whether you’re hot or not there will be a movement towards uniting the online industrial western world with developing nations. Online video has already opened up our eyes to injustice around the world but it’s only the start. The tools of Web 2.0 will evolve to help all nations be self sufficient, energy independent (via new energy technology) and environmentally friendly.

Web 2.0 gave us the technology to test the effectiveness, success and power of online interaction. Global information, worldwide interaction & third world participation opens up a world of possibilities to both developing and industrialized nations. I already see the global need for western medical information with infoMedMD. Many of our visitors come from developing nations that likely don’t have access to quality medical care. With infoMeds, developing nations (with online access) can receive Western medical advice almost as if they specifically asked a doctor for a diagnosis.

Health 2.0 applications like Sermo, infoMedMD & PatientsLikeMe are in their infancy but they’re quickly providing patients all over the world with medical research, information and patient outreach - services that previously were only available via costly doctor visits. Online medical applications were definitely slow to adapt Web 2.0 technologies, but I think they’re some of the first players in Web 3.0. Interactive medical data applications used not for online enjoyment (or making friends) but rather to educate people in an attempt to make their lives better and healthier. 

Whatever the third phase of the web is called it’s very likely that it has just begun. The current economic conditions have forced technology companies (and the venture capitalists funding them) to rethink their business models, focus their ideas and think of the next big thing. The third phase of the web will take everything that we’ve learned during Web 1.0 & 2.0 and make it better.

Internet marketing is more measurable, accountable, faster and viral than traditional advertising. While both forms of advertising might see dips during this economic slowdown it’s likely that traditional (print, TV, radio) advertising will see the biggest decline due to the uncertainty of their results. Internet advertising can be measured immediately via web analytics giving you instant feedback on the success or failure of your advertising dollars. 

Most corporations have not embraced online marketing & social media tools to effectively market their brand. With advertising and public relations (PR) budgets being cut, executives need to utilize the cost effective tools of social media, blogs and online marketing. To cut costs executives have to take an active role in the communication between them and their clients. All of this can be done affordable, but it takes active participation.

My advice - Don’t waste your money on expensive search engine optimization campaigns. SEO firms charge exorbitant fees (however likely to decline in the current market) and they can’t guarantee any results. No SEO firm can promise you the number one spot because they’re not Google and if they were it’s all based o Google’s algorithum. You can accomplish the same results that an SEO firm would do by utilizing online media to your advantage. Also unless you’re in the top 5 of the first page (for a popular keyword) you’re not going to see any significant amount of traffic. 

Now is the time to embrace the web more than ever and now is the time for corporations to take a direct and active role in their online marketing.

Today Google & YouTube announced the launch of YouTube Sponsored Videos. Sponsored videos work almost exactly like Adwords (except its videos instead of text ads) and they’re along the right hand column of YouTube instead of at Google.com. This is definitely welcome news for non-viral video makers (aka Me!) who could use some additional exposure. The costs are on a CPC basis and like Adwords you can set a maximum daily budget.

While I think it’s good for video makers it might not be as popular with viewers who are use to a relatively ad free YouTube. Also sex videos are already clogging up the advertising space. Perform a search for a popular keyword and you’ll see sponsored results for sex and porn videos. This was bound to happen since they are video ads and not text ads, however YouTube definitely needs to monitor this before a backlash ensues. 

All in all it’s a good start for YouTube and I would imagine it’s an idea that Google has been contemplating releasing for many months. Why?  Because it’s not a new idea and the economy probably forced Google to release sponsored videos sooner than later to make up for a likely decline in online advertising spending.

One additional feature that I would like to see with the YouTube sponsored videos is the ability to also display my video along the Google Adwords column. I think it’s time for Adwords to start integrating videos within their text ads. Text ads were a huge revolution from the ghastly banner ads of the 1990s but now everything is about video and I think it’s time for Adwords to adapt.

HomeAway, a vacation rental marketplace, just raised $250 million in their latest round of financing. HomeAway previously raised $209 million which was used to acquire eleven vacation rental sites including VRBO, VacationRentals, CyberRentals, A1Vacations, GreatRentals, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk, OwnersDirect.co.uk, FeWo-direkt.de and Abritel.fr.

With $150 million in yearly revenues the funding will likely be used for additional acquisitions in the vacation rental front - a $24 billion industry. This bodes well for Boston based FlipKey which offers verified vacation rental reviews.

With this round HomeAway was valued at $1.15 Billion - using the basic Bizak revenue valuation you get approximately $600 Million. According to Michael Arrington of Techcrunch this was an “absurd valuation” that won’t likely produce positive returns for the investors.  He says:

It’s also clear that the round was seriously overvalued. Ebay was rumored to have mulled over an acquisition earlier this year at $1.5 billion, but it never came through with a firm offer. It’s not clear who else could be a buyer at this valuation. Also, since HomeAway has acquired just about everyone in the market, there’s little room for additional growth via acquisitions. 20x ebitda is a public company valuation for a company with real growth potential. Our guess is these new investors may take a bath. Source:  Techcrunch

Only time will tell if the deal is bound for failure but either way there will be some very happy entrepreneurs who are more than willing to take a piece of that $250 million.

As I wrote previously in “Creating Ideas Into Business” I talked about how TOKiBiz helps entrepreneurs execute their idea into an online application. I receive a lot of idea development requests via this site. Most of them aren’t significantly unique but how the entrepreneur plans to execute the idea is where the creativity comes into play. It’s the combination of this unique perspective coupled with the entrepreneur’s experience that makes the idea a good one! Ideas create new ideas.

Everyone has ideas but how to create those ideas into an internet application is the difficult part. Creating that idea into a solid brand and profitable business is the very difficult part.  

I respect people’s desire to be very protective of their thoughts but the truth is no one can execute it like you can. They way someone else views your idea is totally different than how you see it - plus the idea alone is not new or very complicated. As I wrote in “The Value of a Business Idea“:

For most ideas the initial value doesn’t necessarily come from the idea itself but the team behind that idea.  Many of us have similar ideas but the real value comes in how that idea is executed.  The more experience the team has the more likely they’ll have a successful execution - even if the idea isn’t earth shattering.  For many ideas aren’t earth shattering, however the most successful ones provide a simple solution to a common problem.

As Techcrunch reported there is a “Fourth YouTuber” who is looking to sue the company for stealing his idea. The reasons are given in the article but none of them are all that unique or even ones that didn’t exist before YouTube went live. The idea of posting videos on the web wasn’t a new one when YouTube went live in 2005. Revver, Brightcove, iFilm and others were around before 2005 but YouTube clicked with the masses. This doesn’t however mean YouTube is monetizing better than other sites - especially Hulu who is eating their lunch.

The “Fourth YouTuber” claims that he came up with the ideas for “video uploading, video commenting, agnostic video format, layout of the main video screen, awards and top listings “most watched”, star ratings, viewers, DMCA automation, video and audio fingerprinting.” Maybe he did but none of these ideas (or features) are all that unique. It’s stuff that developers casually talk about every day - if developers weren’t able to create ideas that originated from conversations then nothing would be built. We build upon what we read and hear about - again it’s the way individuals execute these ideas that make them unique. Take a dozen internet startups in twelve different industries and it’s likely that half of them integrate similar “Web 2.0″ features.

DJ Burdick, founder of One Season, says “business is 5% idea, 95% execution” in “Ideas are Cheap.” One excellent point that DJ makes is “a lot of entrepreneurs are afraid to share their ideas”: 

“We’re in stealth mode” you’ll hear people say. I think that this approach in general is more harmful than good. Let’s throw all morals out the window for a second and assume that people are bad and won’t have any aversion to stealing your idea. Talented and smart people have better things going on than waiting around to steal your idea. Untalented and unoriginal people who may try to steal your idea won’t be able to execute it.

The less experienced someone is at turning a concept into a business, the more they seem to feel like the idea is everything.

If you stay in “stealth mode” as an entrepreneur you’re really only hurting yourself.

NDAs are thrown around so often. It seems like every conversation is prefaced with a mutual NDA. VCs won’t sign them for good reason. And I think in general they are really pointless. Source:  Ideas are Cheap

We’re all influenced by the same technology, which in return stimulates ideas that are similar to others. Someone with a financial background is going to execute the idea differently than someone with a retail background. It’s the experience that one has within the industry that he/she is executing in that increases the likelihood of success for that idea. As I wrote in “Getting An Idea Off the Ground“: 

I use to think that at some point ideas would eventually run dry.  Now I know this is definitely not the case for there are millions of ways to make our lives better.  Ways that we never thought of before and ways that couldn’t exist without the idea launched previous to ours.  For ideas keep building on the ideas of those who came before us.

The Boston based (more specifically Brighton) used gadget marketplace Gazelle has closed a $6 million series B round of funding led by RockPort Capital Partners.  Gazelle is led by Rousseau Aurelien and not only does the company help save the environment but the recent economic woes have given Gazelle an even greater impetus - get cash for your gadgets during tough times!  The Boston Globe recently wrote an article about Gazelle and Lawrence, MA based Nextworth which says:  

Perhaps it’s time to bring in a little extra cash, by disposing of your unused devices. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the average American household has two dozen such gadgets - such as TVs, DVD players, cameras, game consoles, and computers. 

According to the Globe article a lot of people have trouble using sites like Craig’s List and eBay:

But how do you sell them? There are always Internet trading sites like eBay and Craigslist, but these can be costly and risky options for amateur traders. EBay requires a complicated sign-up process and charges transaction fees that will eat into your profits. Craigslist is free and simple, but provides no protection against scam artists who may try to pay with forged money orders or rubber checks. And you can’t be certain your stuff will sell, and at what price.

Gazelle simplifies the process for people by paying you cash up front and then they resell the gadgets online. For an online demo please view the video below:

According to Canalys, Apple’s iPhone has surpassed Research in Motion and Motorola to take the number two spot for worldwide smart phone shipments. The iPhone now enjoys a 17.3% smart phone market share with 6,899,010 units shipped in Q3 2008. This is still considerable behind the 38.9% (15,485,690 units) that Nokia enjoys, but in year over year comparisons Apple grew from 3.6% while Nokia declined from 51.4%. 

According to the NPD group those 6.9 million Apple shipments made the iPhone the best selling cell phone (not just smart phone) in the United States.  The iPhone has now surpassed the Motorola RAZR V3, RIM Blackberry Curve, the LG Rumor and the LG enV2 in units sold domestically.

Below is a chart of the current (October 2008) average benchmarks for websites who contribute to Bizak. Numbers are averages for Visitors, Revenues, Revenues per Visitor (RPV), Costs, Earnings, Earnings per Visitor (RPV) and Valuation. Bizak is categorized into industry, website type and revenue source. The chart below lists the averages for website type and revenue source.   

If you’ve visited YouTube in the last two days you’ll see that Barack Obama is very popular.  Out of the top twenty most popular videos on YouTube,  Barack’s acceptance speech takes up seven of those slots - or 35% of the total.  In addition to the actual speech there are three additional videos about Barack Obama which means half of the 20 most popular videos on YouTube are about President Obama.  

According to Visible Measures (of Boston) there are currently over 500 versions of Obama’s speech on YouTube with views totaling 6.8 million times and counting.  

However, the actual online viewership of Obama’s speech is much greater than 6.8 million since these numbers don’t include views from news sites like CNN, ABC News and MSNBC - all of which have seen a massive spike in traffic since election day.  CNN.com alone had 27 million unique visitors on election night with 276 million page views.

Whether you like Obama or not you have to agree that he has sparked a massive interest in American politics that hasn’t been seen in decades, arguable not since JFK! At the very least this renewed interest in America is a very good thing.

I was up late last night cleaning through the massive amount of files on my desktop and I came across a couple of the early screenshots of what both Bizak and infoMedMD looked like.  As anyone who has designed a website knows a project often goes through a number of revisions before settling into the one that works.  

Bizak - Before

For Bizak, Rick Breslin of Drive Thru Interactive, suggested the original design with a large logo in the center and the corporate stock image in the body.

Bizak - After

We eventually smoothed the design and decided on the current website design.

infoMedMD - Before

For infoMedMD, Paul Yeaton of Fortunate13 came up with this original spec. 

infoMedMD - After

For infoMedMD the design changed a lot more drastically and Paul and I eventually decided on the following design for the website.

We’ve been busy this evening and Dr. Joe launched the second infoMed for tonight - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.

An Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is a potentially deadly condition that may not have symptoms until it is too late. This INFOMED will tell you the indications for screening and how to interpret the results after you have been screened. If you have already been diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, it will give you the chances of complications based on the latest data.

We at infoMedMD, a medical symptoms checker, just published our latest infoMed entitled “Lung Cancer Prognosis.” 

This INFOMED is designed to give the user an idea of his or her prognosis of lung cancer. It also discusses some of the complications of lung cancer and deals with relevant end of life issues. The user should know the type of lung cancer he or she has, although INFOMED can still be helpful without this information.

Microsoft just released a program called BizSpark which is “designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most”  Some of these services include software, support and visibility which allows startups to access Microsoft development tools, connect with network partners and receive global visibility.

BizSpark is free for startups who’ve been in business for under 3 years and generate less than $1 million in yearly revenues.  For the program guide please visit .docstoc.

Bizak is one of the finalists in this month’s Under the Radar startup showdown sponsored by Dealmaker Media and hosted by VenCorps. Like Mashable’s Startup Showdown this too comes with a $50,000 investment. VenCorps is an online community that provides human powered capital for internet startups.

The Presentation Video

Techcrunch is reporting that CNN had a record traffic day yesterday with 27 million unique visitors and 276 million page views - an average day for CNN is 5 million visitors and 35 million page views.

According to Akamai (chart above) last night at 11pm Est. saw the highest demand for online news content ever recorded at 8.5 million “global visitors per minute”.  This beat out the previous record of 7.3 million global visitors per minute on June 22, 2006 when the United States was eliminated by Ghana in the World Cup. Of the top 15 dates on Akamai’s list of “Highest Peaks based on total visitors per minute” 3 of those days were in 2008, 4 in 2007 and 8 in 2006.

Many thanks to Robert O’Keefe (no relation) for stopping by the other day to pitch his new startup called Greenbeetz. Greenbetz “is an online community for going green” which integrates many features of Digg and My Starbucks Idea into promoting ideas for making our lives more environmentally friendly.   

Greenbeetz will likely launch at the beginning of the year and they join many other local Boston environmentally friendly websites including MakeMeSustainable, which tracks your energy consumption and environmental impact.

Mass High Tech just published an article about New England’s confidence in the technology sector. When the first poll was conducted in September 2008 only 5% were not confident that “New England’s technology industry can grow.” After a tumultuous October this not confident percentage jumped to 19.8% on October 21.  However, according to the article (and the chart to your left) the 

…overwhelming majority remains bullish. Among the 197 tech professionals who responded to October’s survey, 76.1 percent are at least “confident” in prospects for growth. 

Techcrunch reported yesterday that the 3 billionth photo was uploaded to Flickr on Monday. This number astonishes me but I quickly learned that this palls in comparison to the 10 billion photos on Facebook. The number of photos on Facebook more than doubled (from 4.1 billion photos) in just one year! Given that I just uploaded a dozen photos to Facebook today, and never uploaded a photo to Flickr, this shouldn’t surprise me but the exponential growth of the internet is amazing. Combine the billions of photos with the 1 trillion URLs and the web is becoming a very difficult place to get noticed.

I would love to see the statistics for the number of Tweets and Facebook uploads for this day alone. Since a couple of my mobile uploads never went through I’m guessing both applications are getting swamped with updates.  However, after resubmitting they successfully went through - no downtime for Twitter!. Looks like that new funding is being well spent.

Thanks to PBS & YouTube, voters will be able to share their voting experience like never before.  Via Video Your Vote voters are encouraged to share a video of their voting experience and upload it to the special page on YouTube. Visitors to the site can view videos according to region and sort by Early Voting, Notable Voter, Voting Perspectives, Voter Intimidation, Polling Place Problems and Registration Problems. Also, “some of the most compelling videos will be included in PBS’s election coverage.”

This is citizen media like its never been seen before.  Combine Video Your Vote with Twitter Vote Report, Twitter’s Election 2008, blogs, online video and of course television and voters have a perspective (and participation) like never before.

Back in June I wrote an article called the Political Web which compared Barack Obama’s web analytics to that of John McCain’s.  Back then Barack Obama and his supporters were clearly more adept at using the web to his advantage. Today Obama is still the clear winner, but McCain has made a large leap ahead of Barack in the number of Google results. My guess is Sarah Palin helped raise McCain’s Google results, especially considering she is searched for 41,327 times per day - more than Obama and McCain combined.    

The web analytics of Barack Obama & John McCain on June 24, 2008

Web Comparison of Barack Obama vs. John McCain

The above numbers have changed a lot since June with Obama the winner in every field except for the Google Results.  Given that tomorrow is election day I would expect some of these numbers to more than double in one day alone - that shows you the power of the web in Election 2008. Twitter has Election 2008 providing a live feed of everything presidential. YouTube has Video Your Vote which encourages voters to upload videos of their voting experience.

More than ever the internet will be providing immediate feedback (both visually and textually) on the election. Who the new President is will be decided tomorrow but when it comes to who won the online campaign, Barack Obama is the clear winner.  Whether that translates into the presidency will be decided tomorrow night.

The web analytics of Barack Obama & John McCain on November 3, 2008

* The Blog Search results for both candidates are less than what they were in June. I would suspect this is more of a change in Google’s indexing rather than people deleting their postings.

Below is Compete’s graph on the comparison of the candidate’s site traffic.

1. Internet 
2. Education
3. Advertising & Marketing
4. Computers & Electronics
5. Arts & Entertainment
6. Finance & Insurance
7. Banking & Mortgage
8. Business
9. Politics & Media
10. Legal
11. Construction
12. Design
13. Healthcare
14. Industrials
15. Non Profit
16. Printing
17. Retail
18. Sports
19. Transportation

For those of you who can’t get enough of podcasts (and intelligent internet insight), Rick Breslin of Drive Thru Interactive hosts the Small Business Internet Marketing Podcast.  

Recent topics include:  ”Google Paid Search Clicks Are Down - Why?”, “Web 2.0 for Small Business - Does it work?”, “Local Search Engine Marketing” and “How Much Is Your Web Site Worth?” which can be seen below.  

For the list of podcasts please visit

http://www.drivethru.us.com/small-business-podcast

I received a great comment yesterday in response to my article, Google Adsense & the Economic Turmoil, from Rick Breslin of Drive Thru Interactive.  Rick is the President of Drive Thru Interactive, web site design for small business, and the developer of Bizak.

In my article I speculate that the current economic downtown will slash marketing budgets which will trickle down through Google Adwords and Adsense. According to Rick, and an article in eMarketer, marketing budgets will likely be cut but online advertising will still thrive because online marketing is more “measurable and accountable” than print advertising.  

According to Rick Breslin:

While I agree that advertising/marketing budgets will get cut within large corporations, this is actually the best time for small businesses to continue their marketing efforts. Never stop marketing. Ever.

In fact, we’re seeing businesses (both big and small) trimming their advertising spend with traditional media (especially newspapers and magazines), while keeping or increasing their online advertising/marketing spend. Why? Online marketing is entirely measurable (and typically produces quicker ROI), and you don’t have to lock-in to huge advertising contracts with old-school publishers.

Additional email conversations with Rick expressed his belief that “online ad spend is decreasing with display ads and increasing with search (Adwords)” and 

…taking into account that Internet TV companies like Revision3 (who just had layoffs / cancelled shows) are adjusting because they make revenue from ads placed within their videos (early adopter stuff). That money is shifting to tried & true online advertising avenues like search, since they’ve figured it out over the past 5 years or so (PPC, that is).

Of course there is speculation on both sides of the online advertising spending debate but a lot of recent research supports Rick’s stance.  A survey in October 2008 by MarketingProfs found that 60% of 600 US marketers expected to increase their online spending in response to current market conditions. In June, McKinsey & Company surveyed 340 senior marketing executives, of the 91% who currently advertise online 50% of them expect to “maintain or exceed current levels” (eMarketer). The most interesting feedback from the McKinsey survey is that 55% of the senior executives are cutting traditional media expenditures in favor of online advertising.

The eMarketer article makes 7 points on why they remain bullish on online advertising spending. The number 1 point being that online advertising is measurable and accountable. With online analytics an advertiser can track every click and every sale that comes from their advertisement - print advertising can’t provide this type of tracking. Unlike traditional media (newspapers, magazines, TV) the Internet is interactive allowing for instantaneous feedback and engagement from consumers - feedback that can tweak the ad for increased effectiveness. Blogs, Facebook & Twitter can help spread these advertisements like wildfire and at virtually no cost to the advertiser - much more effective (and trackable) than handing a magazine to a friend.

All of these points by Rick and eMarketer increase my  optimism about online advertising spending. I still believe it’s time for a new advertising platform, but at least all of those Web 2.0 sites can still generate some income from Google Adsense until that platform is developed.

The marketing department is always one of the first departments to feel the heat during an economic downturn. With marketing budgets (and employees) likely getting cut, online advertising platforms like Google Adwords will see a decline in revenues. A decrease in Adwords will result in a decrease in Google Adsense earnings for website publishers. In response to this uncertainty Google Adsense just sent out the following email to all publishers.  

Dear Publisher,

We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.

We’re focusing on further developing our product offerings and boosting ad performance for publishers. We recently announced advancements in AdSense for search and experiments to make ads more effective. We’re bringing DoubleClick technologies to AdSense publishers, and we’ll continue to launch new products and features. We’re also continuing to improve our offerings for AdWords advertisers, making it easier for them to target the Google content network. Features for advertisers, such as the new display ad builder, are designed to improve ad performance on AdSense publisher sites.

We’ll keep driving technological progress, but our best asset will always be our publisher partners. The strength of AdSense lies in the value of the content you bring to users and the quality of the sites you bring to advertisers. Our success is tied to yours. We look forward to partnering with you for the long term, and remain dedicated to helping you succeed.

Sincerely,

Today at 12:58 PM I received the following text message from AT&T:

AT&T Free Msg:  Your Apple iPhone now has free AT&T Wi-Fi access at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks. For info visit www.att.com/attwifi

According to the AT&T website the free Wi-Fi is also available at:

Thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot locations nationwide

• Airports
• Hotels
• Universities
• Convention Centers
• Sports Centers 
• Starbucks locations
• Restaurants
• Bookstores
• Supermarkets

This is definitely a nice feature but the new iPhones are so fast that it’s often more of a pain to switch to Wi-Fi than to just keep it at 3G or even EDGE. I would imagine the strategy for AT&T’s free Wi-Fi is to lower the data costs that iPhone users generate.  Allowing iPhone users to freely access AT&T Wi-Fi networks is likely cheaper than the massive data costs that iPhones generate - costs that resulted in a $900 million loss for 3Q2008.

AT&T is reporting a boom in customer acquisition and, it seems, a bust in profits. According to a recent earnings report, the company activated 2.4 million iPhones but lost $900 million in third-quarter earnings as a result of all the data and voice blowing through Apple’s darling. Source:  CrunchGear.

Whatever the reasoning behind the deal it will likely help increase sales & traffic for Starbucks and other retailers. I already spent $4.15 on a Venti Chai Tea Latte to test out the “free” Wi-Fi.  I’m happy to report that it works and the Chai Tea was good.

We’re happy to announce that all of the medical symptoms on infoMedMD are now available to embed on your website.  Just browse any of our medical symptoms, for example Cigar Smoking, and you’ll see below it the code to “Embed this infoMed on your site!