Yahoo Alpha Goes Beta
This isn’t a typo: Yahoo!7 is running the search Alpha beta Down Under, offering a customizable start page people can equip with content modules from Yahoo’s properties and others.
The Incredible Shrinking Book
Have you ever read a long document on your computer screen? I’m talking novel-length. It’s not nearly as comfortable as paging through a book from your couch. But if you’re brave enough to try something even more doubtful, stories are becoming available through cell phones.
YouTube Tossed Out Of Thailand
In September of 2006, the elected government of Thailand was overthrown. In April of 2007, YouTube was shown the door. That’s right – YouTube has (yet again) been banned in an entire country.
Study Examines Video Game “Addiction”
Harris Interactive has released a report documenting its findings from a recent study evaluating the prevalence of video game addiction among youth. There is skepticism, however, surrounding how Harris defined the term “addiction” when conducting the survey.
It looks like Harris Interactive has finally managed to accomplish a feat that has baffled physical and mental health professionals for decades; they have defined addiction.
Is FireFox Socially Acceptable?
Would you want to have social networking features built into whatever browser you use? That’s what Mozilla Labs is hoping as they are adding social networking features into the FireFox browser.
How You Can ‘Still’ Get on the Digg Homepage
Lately a lot of people who used to get on the Digg homepage constantly have been complaining that they can’t make the homepage anymore. In most cases these people are doing the exact same thing as they used to do before. Here is how you can still get on the homepage:
It’s About Connections, Not Control
Pete Blackshaw from Nielsen Buzz Metrics wrote an interesting column this week talking about the fact that CMO’s still have control. He railed against the absolution of responsibility on the part of marketers, using the new buzzwords of consumer empowerment to justify the fact that they can throw more spam at the average user now because, after all, the user is in control.
Scoble Figures Out Google’s Secret
Robert Scoble, in a recent blog post, cracked the Google monetization code on the search results page. In a conversation with an unnamed Googler he found that Google can afford to dial down the presentation of top sponsored ads because they’re just more efficient at monetizing the traffic. Of course, this shouldn’t come as news to anyone who read our last eye tracking report. We went into great depth about Google’s ability do more with less when it comes
A Big List of Blogging Mistakes
Here’s the final list of the 48 blogging mistakes from the partecipants to the blogging project started by Daniel at dailyblogtips.com. There’s also my entry, the blogging mistake I did for 25 years … but they changed my catchy title
Jeff Jarvis Delighted With Dell?
Long-time readers will remember the Dell Hell episodes of a while back. My, how things change. Jeff Jarvis recounts his story of getting together with a number of Dell representatives last week.