More than half (69%) of adult Americans have gone online to get help with personal economic issues and to gather information about national economic problems, according to a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Some 52 percent of Americans have had to cope with a major economic loss during the recession including 35 percent who have seen their investments lose more than half their value.
November Nine Set for World Series of Poker
The world of poker is creating a lot of buzz on the Internet with sites like PokerNews.com, WSOP.com and hundreds of professional poker players using Twitter almost in real time as they play. For those of you who are poker fans here is a Murdok poker update:
The World Series of Poker final table in Las Vegas has been set and poker superstar Phil Ivey is still in it..
The final table is as follows:
Top 10 Subject Line Words That Get Opens
Email list manager provider MailerMailer released its bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report (pdf) recently. The report revealed what the company claims to be the most popular words used in subject lines, with regards to attracting readers to open the message.
According to MailerMailer’s report, the top ten words are:
@Biz Explains Twitter’s Security Woes
Earlier today some confidential documents from Twitter began floating around the blogosphere. It appears the documents were obtained via a hacked employee Google account from several months ago.
Do you think this hack on Twitter will have any lasting impact? Tell us what you think.
Wildfire Founder Talks Social Media
Murdok spoke to Victoria Ransom, founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, about social media and the company’s social media tool Wildfire Promotion Builder used to create a variety of campaigns on social networks.
Murdok: What gave you the idea to develop the Wildfire Promotion Builder?
CBS Interactive Posts Solid June Traffic Increases
June seems to have been kind to CBS Interactive, as the media corporation released some encouraging numbers from Nielsen this afternoon. More than half a dozen properties posted some very impressive growth statistics.
Bing See Modest Search Gain In June
Microsoft’s share of U.S. Internet searches rose modestly in June with the launch of Bing accounting for 8.4 percent of queries, up from 8 percent in May, according to comScore.
Yahoo saw its search share fall to 19.6 percent, from 20.1 percent in May, while Google’s share remained flat at 65 percent.
In a report, Douglas Anmuth, an analyst for Barclays Capital, wrote he had been expecting Bing’s share to come in between 10 percent and 11 percent. He said the comScore data was good news to investors of Google and Yahoo concerned about Bing’s initial impact.
Google Sued By Rosetta Stone Over Trademarks
Update
Murdok spoke to Eric Goldman, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute about the latest trademark case brought against Google.
Microsoft Puts Out New Version of Silverlight
Microsoft has launched Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 today. Silverlight is a browser plug-in that enables companies to design, develop, and deliver web apps. Expression is a set of design tools and technologies.
The new Silverlight release in particular is big news. Over 1/3 of Internet devices have installed version 2 since its launch less than nine months ago.
Microsoft also announced that MGM and NBC Sports are using Silverlight for different forthcoming video efforts.
Google Improves Universal Results for Locations
Google is now showing images in universal search results for location queries. They have shown maps for some time, but the addition of images enriches the results that much more.