Update 4: The Hulu/Boxee saga continues. Since the last update, Boxee has started a Twitter account dedicated to letting users know the status of Hulu on Boxee:
Google TV Ads Reporting Options Improved
It’s getting hard to imagine how the Google TV Ads team could make things any easier on marketers. After these promoters have been given suggestions concerning which shows are best-suited to a given audience, a new series of features and options will report back ad viewership data in greater-than-ever detail.
Google, WPP To Study Online Ads’ Effectiveness
Cute stories and a charismatic personality can go a long way towards making a sale; people like to feel good about their purchases. At the same time, solid facts are pretty convincing, and Google and WPP intend to collect more of these concerning the power of online ads.
Flagship Phones Boosting Sales On Carrier Web Sites
comScore has released data from its monthly wireless ecommerce dashboard, which tracks consumer shopping and purchasing behavior, including handsets and mobile data plans, at all of the major wireless carrier sites.
In terms of overall dollar sales on the carriers’ Web sites, the flagship phones being sold were significant revenue generators. Three of the four flagship phones (Apple iPhone, HTC G1, and Blackberry Storm) ranked as the top revenue driver on their respective sites, even though they ranked just inside the top ten models in terms of unit volume.
Facebook Now Allows You To Show Profile To Everyone
I know why you joined Facebook: to share everything with everyone. Well, good news—this week, Facebook adds a new level of privacy access: everyone.
Contxts Shows Off SMS Business Cards
Even among the tech savvy, pretty paper business cards are still the norm. Any tech conference in the country you go to will lead to a pocket full of them, some you may even use. This year at SXSW, some cutting edge types had these old world formalities only as backups. Instead, they asked a question you might hear a lot more of in the future: Are you on Contxts?
Lately we’ve all been hearing similar questions in other situations: Are you on [Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter]? Those same companies might want to look very closely at Contxts’ concept.
Fujitsu Stabs At Kindle Market
At first glance it looks like a Kindle killer. Fujitsu took the veil off of FLEPia today, an e-book reader that shows 260,000 colors in full sunlight, and that works as a digital picture frame.
Google Names Armstrong Replacement
Google’s head of American Advertising Sales and Operations Tim Armstrong recently left Google to become AOL’s new Chairman and CEO. Google has announced his replacement (staying within the company) with Dennis Woodside.
Analyst: Make Twitter Put Money Where Everybody’s Mouth Is
If you can’t get a good bubble started on the Internet, then where can ya? Aye, times are indeed bad if analysts are even poopooing hot Web properties. And if it’s one thing Wall Street’s got these days, it’s credibility!
Mobilizing the Wiki
PBwiki announced the release of its mobile edition today. This is the first of its kind to be released for smartphones.
For those unfamiliar with PBwiki whose CEO Jim Groff formerly worked for Oracle and Apple, it is a commercial wiki site said to be named after the concept that making a wiki should be as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich.