Google Steps on eBay’s Toes

StumbleUpon Deletes Audience Rank Feature

StumbleUpon has ticked some of their users off recently by removing their audience rank feature. SEO expert Joe Whyte wrote this on his blog about the sites actions. "It looks like Stumble Upon has taken a page out of the book of digg and started removing factors that allow you to gauge your rank and profile power within stumble upon."

BBC Moves Forward With Online Archive, iPlayer

It’s only for a six-month trial period, and it involves just 20,000 people in the UK, but something important has transpired - part of the BBC archive went online.  And if everything goes well, we can look for all of that audio and video to become much more widely available.

More on Mobile Search Site Creation & Optimization

Part 2: Mobile Site Optimization The question remains; how should you optimize a mobile web page? All of the presenters provided tips, but Cindy Krum’s presentation provided the majority of information. I listed a blend of the tips from all presenters below:

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.