Yahoo To File Trademark Complaint Against AOL?
Yahoo may be set to file opposition to AOL’s use of Instant Messenger at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Sunlight Shines On OpenCongress.Org
The Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation bring together legislation, news, and the teeming blogosphere on their new website.
The Internet’s Role In Health Care
In the last decade the Internet has had a positive impact on the way people manage their health and has helped to make them healthier. One common complaint among people is that doctors have been slow to adopt e-Health and are not offering the online health services they want.
MySpace Beginning to Block Widgets?
One of the primary reasons that MySpace has achieved such success in the realm of social networking is the ability for users to customize their profiles with layouts, music, videos, and assorted other widgets.
As the number of MySpace users continues to grow, however, the company is becoming less inclined to allow third parties to use their social networking site as a marketing platform for their services. Last weekend, MySpace began blocking widgets from Vidlife, Stickam, Revver, and Imeem.
Guidelines on How to Ask for a Link
Last week I did a post on Search Engine Watch about 11 guidelines for pursuing authoritative links. This post on SEW provides an overview about pursuing the highest value links from sites as part of a long campaign. And this is a great approach to pursuing links.
Godin on Contextual Ad Targeting
Seth Godin wonders whether media buyers are right to pull ads off Google’s and Yahoo’s contextual networks because of how loosey-goosey they are with their approach to placement — they match ads to pages, rather than allowing the advertiser "channel control."
While it’s true that Y!&Goog would benefit from better sites joining their networks, I agree with Seth that being so afraid to show your ads on "Joe Schmo’s Sports site" could be doing the client a disservice.
Solving the Work Overload Time Problem
Work overload, and the accompanying stress of not having enough hours in the day, is a major problem for many business owners and managers. Not only is the issue of feeling snowed under by too much work an issue for entrepreneurs and exectives, it’s getting worse. Some business people are left to dream of adding magical hours to their clocks as a last resort.
The 12 Main Sources of Blog Traffic
Something odd happened about ten days ago, and it got me thinking about hidden blog traffic.
As many of you who read this content directly on my blog might have noticed, I publish my Feedburner RSS subscriber count on the right hand sidebar of my blog. For those of you reading this on one of the sites that syndicates my writing or through an RSS reader, you might not have seen it but for months the count typically hovered between 700 and 900 readers.
Scoble Still Loves Xbox, TabletPCs, Media Center, etc.
Liz Lawley wonders why I hyped up all things Microsoft when I worked there, but now don’t get excited anymore.
She missed that I was only talking about Internet stuff that goes in the Web browser, not stuff that Microsoft is more traditionally known for like Windows and Xbox and all that.
When Input Gets Erased On Page Load
One of the many annoying web interface bugs is that text you entered in a box while the page is still loading is erased when the page finished loading.