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Today, as is often the case, one tech company's loss became another's gain. Utkarsh Srivastava has left Yahoo after spending more than…
YouTube has begun testing a new kind of ad format on some of its videos - skippable pre-rolls. These ads let users choose whether or not they want to watch the ad as it appears at the beginning of a video. YouTube says that when it first began testing in-stream ads a couple years ago, abandonment rates on videos were as high as 70%. They…
Mozilla is celebrating the fifth birthday of its Firefox browser today. Mozilla says in the first four days of launch, more than 1 million people had downloaded Firefox 1.0 Now that number is at 330 million users globally, accounting for almost a quarter of all Internet users. Currently Firefox is available in more than 70 languages and offers users more than 7,000 add-ons to customize…
A quick, but important, note: the stuff we're about to discuss is only available on an opt-in basis. So there's no need to stop halfway through this article and drown your phone or tape it to a neighbor's car. Now, with that out of the way, let's move on to the news that Google Latitude's gained two features called Google Location History and Google Location…
Update: Philipp Lenssen notes that someone has already developed a language called Go! (with an exclamation point). There is a book on it here. The author wants Google to change the name. This could get confusing for developers looking to use Go, although, it could also help sales of the Go! book. It wouldn't make for very happy customers, however.
As you may know, Google has been sending out Google Wave invitations for a little while now. Many people are still finding these hard to come by, but others have been lucky enough to be selected and get their hands dirty. Those who have been granted access to Google Wave have the ability to nominate people for invitation, but not directly invite people themselves. So…
