A little less than three months ago, Credit Suisse predicted that YouTube’s 2009 losses would be in the neighborhood of $470 million. Which is, of course, quite bad. But a new report from RampRate – together with info out of Microsoft – makes it look like Google’s video-sharing site is doing somewhat better.
Facebook’s Twitter-Fication Continues
It looks like Facebook isn’t going to miss the real-time search boat. Instead, the social network has begun a little experiment, and it seems that it’s started with Twitter’s ideas on the subject and added some interesting features from there.
Ask Gets More Serious About Answers
Ask.com has released a database of 300 million Q&A pairs available to users in the US and the UK.
"Delivering the best answers though innovations in semantic search technology is the direction in which the search industry is headed, and Ask is best-placed to lead the industry in this regard given our database of hundreds of millions of questions, and our core search technologies," said Scott Kim, Ask.com’s EVP of Technology.
eBay Completes Tender Offer for Gmarket
Today eBay announced the completion of a tender offer for all outstanding common shares and American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Gmarket. Back in April, eBay announced that it was spending $1.2 billion to acquire those shares.
Gmarket is known as Korea’s leading eCommerce business, and it will apparently be combined with eBay’s existing online marketplace in Korea, Internet Auction Company.
The Twitpocalypse Is Upon Us
Update 1: The Twitpocalypse occured on June 12, 2009 at 11:52 PM GMT.
UPDATE 2: The Twitpocalypse has claimed its first victim, the popular iPhone app Twitterrific, read more here.
That’s right, the Twitpocalypse is almost here.
iPhone: Fun Facts and Apps of the Day
As you are probably aware, Apple announced last week that the iPhone 3G S would go on sale this Friday. Phone recycler Gazelle tells Murdok that 300 iPhones were traded into its site that day alone.
Saving Money on the iPhone Upgrade
SEO Checklist with Vanessa Fox
When you are evaluating your website from an SEO/Indexing/Crawlability perspective there are a few things to keep in mind and some important questions you may not be asking yourself. What questions are you asking yourself? Share with Murdok readers.
Google Aims For Idiot Box Opposite With Citizentube
Over the years, YouTube’s been used for increasingly serious purposes. Now, we’ve apparently reached the point at which those purposes are important and numerous enough to get their own blog, as Google’s set something called Citizentube (with zero capital "t"s, yes) aside to cover them.
Sitepoint Marketplace Getting a New Home
Users of the Sitepoint Marketplace are getting a new home for their community. Sitepoint announced that it is moving to Flippa.com, which is currently in beta, and boasts an updated web 2.0-style design. Do you like the new destination? Tell us your thoughts.
SEO Ranking Factors for 2009
Search Engine Marketing and SEO have always been very dynamic fields. Search engines make changes all of the time. Sometime they announce their changes, sometimes we are left to guess at them. In either event, more often than not, we are left largely to our own devices in terms of assessing the impact of these changes and what to do about them – if anything.