Illinois To Ban Social Networks?
There’s a lot of talk surrounding a bill currently being proposed by Alaska senator Ted Stevens, which would place restrictions on access to social networks within public schools. Legislation introduced in Illinois, however, seeks to completely ban these sites from the state’s schools.
Illinois state senator Matt Murphy, a republican, has introduced a bill entitled the “Social Networking Web Site Prohibition Act” which would effectively ban the surfing of any social network sites from computers in public school libraries.
DOPA Jr. Is Not A Wikipedia Ban
It’s easy to understand why people would be skeptical, or even suspicious, of anything Alaska Senator Ted Stevens introduces into Congress these days, especially if it involves the Internet – or, the tubes and all that. But the simply-titled Senate Bill 49, which some have called "Son of DOPA" or "DOPA Jr.," may not be as bad as its made out to be.
InstantBull Takes Stocks To The Matrix
Stock discussions dominate financial sites, as investors and observers try to divine what a corporation will do and where its share price will go next.
Winter Storms Drive Web Traffic
The recent winter storms across the Midwest and Northeast have driven record traffic to Internet Broadcasting’s network of more than 70 TV station Web sites. According to WebTrends On Demand traffic reached its peak on February 13, with more than 35 million pageviews surpassing the previous record set on August 29,2005 when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast.
Omniture Unveils New Analytic Software
Omniture, Inc. has announced the launch of Discover 2.0, analytic software designed to give companies the ability to visually explore large amounts of online customer interaction data in real-time.
Discover is a component of the Omniture Online Business Optimization Platform, and is a solution that Omniture claims can accomodate all levels of business users by generating everything from simple reports to more complex methods of data aggregation and analysis.
What’s Changed with Google Ad Quality?
Kevin Newcomb’s take on the latest incremental update on ads quality. As Kevin does, I interpret the changes to mean an increase in transparency (obvious, because that’s what Google tells us); and a more relaxed minimum bid status for "unknown" type new keywords where Google has little data to go on. Here, they might be less likely to punish you for the trends seen with other advertisers trying similar keywords for similar offers, and let you create your own good or bad track record on your own.
Google Shares Quality With Ad Clients
AdWords users will begin to get a glimpse of the ‘man behind the curtain’ as they make a trio of general Quality Score ratings available, based on the keywords clients pick for those campaigns.
SCO Desperately Seeking Pamela Jones
Faced with what many believe is the imminent demise of their lawsuit against IBM over Linux code, SCO Group may be pursuing a ‘scorched earth’ strategy where they can drag the true identity of Groklaw’s Pamela Jones into public knowledge.
Search Celebrates Valentine's Day
The search engine industry is never shy about embracing the various holiday activities, even if the day being celebrated is strictly a Hallmark event; and Valentine’s Day is no exception. From a minor logo alteration to perhaps a Super Bowl/Veronica Mars marriage proposal, many search pundits turn their creative juices up a little more if […]
Matt Cutts Speaks Up At SES London
Matt Cutts has left the country. Google didn’t transfer him, though, and he didn’t run away – Cutts only temporarily crossed the pond to drop in at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in London. Cutts actually gave the “keynote conversation,” which Chris Sherman moderated.