adap.tv Adopts Simultaneous Partnership, Launch
These are busy days for adap.tv – the company, which was founded in 2006, recently launched its new “unique online video advertising service.” It also partnered with thePlatform, “a leading provider of broadband video management and publishing services.”
Web Operates At 28,000 Pervs-Per-Second
The US might consume 40% of the world’s oil, but also provides almost 90% of the world’s Internet porn. A fair trade? Well, let’s not get into that debate.
Digg Burying Stories Internally?
We all know that the main reason why stories don’t hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried. Some say the buries are caused by specific Digg users who have it out for us while others just blame it on the content saying it wasn’t Digg worthy. Well last week we did a test on Pronet Advertising that shows Digg might be burying stories internally.
Google Develops Plans To Profile Gamers
Imagine that you’re playing a computer game, and because you slowly sneak up behind an enemy, you’re shown an advertisement for a bank. Run at the same enemy while wielding a rocket launcher, and you’ll see an ad for a death metal CD. This is Google’s dream.
Google on Personalized SEO
At the 2007 Search Summit – The Australian Search Marketing Conference, Aaron D’Souza, Software Engineer, Google Search Quality alongwith co-workers, Maile, Peeyush, Dan, Ada hopped from the US Google offices to share, discuss and learn topics that are dear to Webmasters/SEOs/SEMs/users and their like.
Mozilla Take’s its Time Getting Mobile
APC Mag has an interview with Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker, and he basically said that Mozilla is looking into ways to serve the mobile section of the web browsing market, but plans to drag their feet a little longer. Microsoft has been producing an underpowered mobile browser for years now, but Mozilla has had an abandoned red-headed stepchild of a mobile browser, and Baker basically admits that isn’t going to change just yet.
Google Warns Of Malware
A new study by Google that examined 4.5 million Web sites for malicious software found that about one in ten sites were infected.
The study called "Ghost in the Browser" revealed that out of the 4.5 million Web sites analyzed 450,000 had caused Google’s test computer to make a "drive-by download".
The study found that the average user does not have a way to protect themselves from the threat.
Google’s Defensible Trump Card?
A thought that came up in a conversation with Michael Ferguson, Ask’s usability guy (which is probably why I like talking to him. He always greases the mental machinery) was Google’s defensible position that personalization offers.
Google is betting the farm on personalization. And really, they’re possibly the only search engine that can make this work. Here are the required components:
driverTV.com: Only For The Fast
If you don’t have a fast Internet connection, stop reading. This doesn’t apply to you. Everyone else, rejoice – driverTV.com, “the only automotive destination designed from the ground up for broadband subscribers” is here; as you might imagine, it’s rather good-looking.
The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had
You can easily discover 10s, maybe even 100s of existing friends on Digg, if you only knew how and where to look.