Gmail Seeks User Input
Google is often fun to deal with – the company, generally speaking, has a great sense of humor. But in a Gmail-related “Suggest a feature” section, it’s hard to tell where the jokes stop, and therefore hard to tell where the service may be headed.
O’Reilly Turns Criticism Into Civil Discourse
After the uproar caused by his proposed code of conduct for bloggers, Tim O’Reilly could have let the subject drop into the deep waters of blogospheric controversy, only to be remembered as a cautionary tale, a footnote to the history of the Web.
TV Web Sites Heat Up During Prime Time
Television viewers are increasingly turning to TV Web sites during prime time, weekdays 8pm-11pm and are spending more time there, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Mozilla Flies The Coop With Prototype Addon
Last week, Mozilla announced the development of an addon designed to implement social networking features within its popular Firefox web browser. The company has released an early prototype of the feature, named The Coop, so users can get an initial preview of what’s to come.
Social Networks Safer Than Perceived
Social networking sites are becoming a political lightning rod for politicians and law enforcement. As more children use the sites the belief is that they are at increased risk to be targeted by online predators.
MySpace Users Learn Harsh Reality
When you host your stuff on a Web site that’s free and that you don’t control some nasty crap can happen. Yesterday MySpace started blocking Photobucket stuff.
Viacom, Yahoo Sign Online Advertising Deal
A deal has been announced that will see Yahoo act as the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads to all of Viacom’s web properties.
Analysts and commentators have suggested that Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against Google may have been as much a contributing factor as its confidence in Yahoo’s ability to effectively monetize traffic.
It appears that Google’s loss is Yahoo’s gain, at least when it comes to dealing with Viacom.
Google Marches On, Leads In Search
Searchers in the US made Google their choice in March 2007, as Hitwise reported a 64 percent market share for the search engine.
Google Censors China Olympics Criticism
The motto of next year’s Olympic games in China is “one world, one dream.” Online, the world is actually split up into several countries, each with their own limited view, made possible through national censorship of the web.
Can MySpace Steal Google Users?
Could MySpace really attract a large proportion of users away from Google and other major portals? A new report from JupiterResearch "21st Century Portals: Thriving in the Google-MySpace Era" examines that question.
The report says that 55 percent of the users who are most likely to pay for services could be drawn to an entertainment and communication combination such as MySpace.