CMS Watch, which evaluates and reports on content-related technologies, has issued a report saying that Yahoo Web Analytics (formerly IndexTools) is better than Google Analytics in a number of key areas.
Too Much Content Bad for Online Advertising?
Could the enormous amount of content on the web be hurting online advertising revenue? That is exactly what is happening according to the Wall Street Journal.
The largest contributor to this is probably user-generated content. With everyone and their mother pushing out content (like the incredible number of videos of some guy playing guitar in his room on YouTube) with incredible frequency, the market is becoming saturated.
Panel Of Experts List Top 30 Innovations Of The Past 30 Years
To celebrate their three decades on the air, PBS’ Nightly Business Report teamed up with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
Friday the 13th Sees Facebook Hit 175M Active Users
Some of us measure our popularity in the number of Facebook friends we have. Facebook measures its popularity in the number of “active users” it has—and that number hit 175,000,000 on Friday the 13th, according to a Tweet from Dave Morin of Facebook.
comScore Gives Google Maps January Win
Don’t be surprised if members of the Google Maps team start to favor comScore over competing traffic-monitoring companies. comScore may have just helped them secure some bonuses by putting Google Maps ahead of MapQuest in terms of unique visitors.
Google Penalizes Itself
Go ahead and laugh, because it is funny. Google Japan’s probably too embarrassed to laugh, though, and someone somewhere is likely to resemble the spittle-drenched apologist from the movie Gung Ho.
Google Japan, according to its apology, was apparently unaware of the company’s own terms of service. Paying a Japanese pay-per-post promotion company to pimp its new Hot Keywords blog widget caused the website to be busted down from PR 9 to PR 5.
Is Digg Alienating Its Top Users Like eBay?
Digg seems to be divided into two types of users – the "power users" and the users who feel cheated because the "power users" dominate everything. Last week, Digg announced updates to its algorithm.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra Voting Begins
Three months ago, YouTube asked musicians to submit audition clips for its YouTube Symphony Orchestra. About 3,000 people responded. Now, experts have selected the best 200 performers, and it’s your turn to pick winners who will go on to Carnegie Hall.
Trident Viral Marketing Campaign Isn’t Working
We love to talk about the successes of online video. The viral nature of a good campaign can mean significant impact to the bottom line of a company. Just ask Blendtec. Most are familiar with the “Will it Blend” video phenomenon that still has legs after almost 2 years.
The Online Video Picture in Germany
comScore today provided some interesting insight into online video use in Germany. Among their findings was that the country had 28 million online video viewers watching over 3 billion videos in December.
Google sites completely dominated the market share at 51%. 1.7 billion videos were viewed on YouTube alone over the month. Here’s a look at where other web properties ranked: