MySpace Brands Itself With Premium Video Content
When News Corp. entered the Internet world with its acquisition of MySpace, the I-World looked at Rupert Murdoch like they were "a-smellin’ onions." Nearly two years later, News Corp. is proving to be one of the Web-savviest companies around.
YouTube Faces Music With New Lawsuit
YouTube is facing yet another lawsuit, this time from musician and mandolin player David Grisman. Grisman, known for performing with the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, is suing for what he says are unauthorized postings of his music.
The Future Of Video Goes Through Adobe
Adobe’s Media Player will debut sometime this summer. There is a good chance Adobe’s ecosystem plans for digital media will solidify its role in content creation and serving.
Pipl Succeeds At People Search
There are a lot of niche search engines out there; considering how effective Google and Yahoo are, one could easily say that there are too many. This has led me to become a bit suspicious when new ones pop up, but Pipl – a search engine for finding people – is gaining traction.
Blinkx Tangos With ChaCha
Rising video search engine Blinkx will be funneling its media index into the half-humanized ChaCha search results. If you’ve forgotten about ChaCha (and most of us have, really), this is the engine on which searchers can enlist the aid of a live on-call human for assistance.
Surviving The “Google Shuffle”
What do you do when your Web site falls in Google’s page rankings for reasons due to a shift in their algorithm known as the "Google Shuffle"?
Caring For An Online Community
It takes a village to raise a child, but what does it take to run an online community? Well, there’s the money, the site, and the keyboard, but in less tangible terms, a human touch is also recommended (if not required).
When To Use Graphics On Your Website
Overall, using text is more preferrable, than using graphics (images, pictures, Flash and so on) on a website, because it is easier to understand and remember – and also accessible to the people and the search engines.
But there are some cases, when using graphics is the right thing to do.
When to use graphics
As mentioned in the earlier article, graphics should only be used, when it is absolutely necessary, such as:
SEOs Claim Digg Auto-Buries Stories
The running feud between the SEO community and the Digg news site heated up again, with accusation of Digg automatically burying certain stories.
Pet Food Recall Creates “Husky” Traffic
Back in March, online traffic to pet-related sites saw a significant increase due to the pet food recall. Nielsen//NetRatings has released data that shows visits to pet related sites grew a 115 percent in March over the previous month.