Google Widgets Fly The Coop
The Google Co-op offers a handful of nifty little tools that can provide you with all sorts of useful information (from the time, to the traffic, to the weather, and so on). But a recent upgrade allows users to “have live data included in your Google searches.”
Google Gets Into Neighborhood Search
Dear old Mr. Rogers often talked about things in terms of neighborhoods, but the algorithms running Google Maps never considered that sort of division. Now they do.
MySpace To Send Sex Offender Info To Cops
MySpace will be feeding information on sexual predators using the social networking site to all 50 states’ Attorneys General.
Google Maps Enlists Robot Car
Those who worry about Google’s impending world domination are probably going to be terrified, but for the rest of us, this is just neat: the search engine giant has made a deal that involves Stanley, the robot car that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Features Of The Ideal Family Social Network
Almost everyone I know is sharing photos online with family, and some more web savvy families have full groups set up online to correspond with other family members across the world.
Spyware Cheating Affiliate Merchants
Researcher Ben Edelman cited a half-dozen examples of affiliate merchants being cheated by spyware, particularly by claiming commissions on organic traffic coming to those merchants.
MySpace Gets 80% of Social Network Visits
We all knew that MySpace was the dominant social networking darling, but we may not have realized that MySpace controls almost 80% of the social networking market. Yikes!
Redfin Fined For Real Estate Blog
For an outfit like Google, $50,000 isn’t much – this is, after all, the corporation that bought a full-size SpaceShipOne replica for no apparent reason. But for Redfin, a $50,000 loss is a show-stopper, and the real estate company shut down part of its “Sweet Digs” blog after being fined that amount.
Hawaii to Decide if a Blogger is a Journalist
There’s an interesting case, going on in Hawaii, that could have far reaching ramifications for bloggers.
Online Payment Preferences Of Young Consumers
JupiterResearch says that younger consumers under the age of 35 are developing different payment habits than adults over 35.