Permanence and the Internet
Last night I had the chance to attend the opening of the Indian Film Festival here in LA, which opened with a film called Provoked featuring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews.
Schmidt Defends DoubleClick Buy, Net Neutrality
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke with Federated Media’s John Battelle to discuss Google’s purchase of DoubleClick, Network Neutrality, and the company’s seemingly aggressive movement into Microsoft territory with the release of a new PowerPoint-like web application.
Virtual Gambling Could Bring Down Second Life
In the virtual world of Second Life, one can engage in just about every imaginable sort of commerce. Industries spanning from standard retail to prostitution offer the average Second Lifer a veritable cornucopia of possibilities, but it’s the virtual casinos that exist in the online world that are drawing the attention and ire of government agencies in the United States.
What is Search Advertising Worth?
How often do you click a sponsored link? Rarely? Never?!
If you do not click them, who does?
Google Improves Content Removal
Last week Yahoo announced they had improved the options for removing pages from their index.
Virginia Tech Tragedy Spurred Online News Boost
People searching for information and an understanding of the events surrounding the shootings on Virginia Tech’s campus hit online news sites in droves.
Google Maps Gets Sick
WhoIsSick.org is using Google Maps in a unique way by creating a mash up that detail, the geographic area of users who are not well, along with their symptoms.
The site provides a color-coded pie chart that displays a breakdown of symptoms by percentage and covers descriptions of illnesses from muscle ache to runny nose.
Yahoo Challenges Google On Analytics Front
Search engine marketers rely heavily on website metrics to determine what adjustments need to be made to advertising campaigns in order to increase time on site and conversion. Google has offered free analytical tools to webmasters for some time, but now site owners are starting to take notice of the new measurement tools contained within Yahoo’s Project Panama.
Web 2.0 Expo: Built to Last
Yesterday at Web 2.0 Expo one of the main keynote sessions was the “Built to Last” Panel which consisted of John Battelle asking various questions to a few entrepreneurs who have built companies that have sold or were worth selling. The participants in the session:
Performics: Another Part Of The DoubleClick Deal
Google wants to buy DoubleClick, which owns Performics. Pending government approval of the deal, Google’s ownership of a large SEO firm with prominent brand-name clients has created some buzz.