Yahoo Responds To “Wired” Slams
An article titled “How Yahoo Blew It” has been making the rounds, and although similar stories appear every day, this one had a bit of heft: it appeared in Wired. Yahoo is now firing back – or, to be more accurate, politely responding.
Why Use a TV Network?
Interesting move by a local TV station called KZSW in Temecula, California (yeah, I’ve never heard of it either – look it up on Google Maps if you want).
Blogs Increase Online Newspapers Traffic
Blogs have given the nations top 10 newspaper sites a much-needed increase in traffic. Over the past year Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210 percent. Over all the unique audience growth has increased by 9 percent in the past year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13 percent of Web traffic in December 2006. That’s up 9 percentage points from 4 percent in December 2005.
Obama Channel Comes To Brightcove
Many are expecting 2008 to be the year of the YouTube presidency, with candidates using every effective communication tool at their disposal. Senator Barack Obama, who likes to pretend he may not run for president, is taking the video-sharing helm by setting up the Obama Channel at Brightcove.
Google Reader’s Search Function: Where is it?
Now that I subscribe to over 100 blogs with Google Reader, I skim posts making a mental note to come back later and read the whole thing.
Google Checkout Promo A Cause For Concern?
Google Checkout appears to be branching out, and not everyone is happy about it. Google purists are annoyed that product information is taking up an increasing amount of space on the main results page; other observers are concerned that the search engine company is no longer being fair to competitors.
Traditonal PR w/ a Touch of Social Media
Launching a social media marketing campaign in concert with a traditional media campaign, such as press releases, is a great idea.
Digg Love Is Not A Right
Within the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that citizens should have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No one owes you a spot on the front page of Digg.
Rumors Swirling Around Apple’s Fairplay DRM
Tech.co.uk is reporting that Apple will announce this week that it is opening up it’s Fairplay DRM so that it may be licensed by device manufacturers who are members of the “Made for iPod” group of manufacturers.
The Holy Grail of CSS
Someone asked me recently why I liked Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) and what makes CSS so great. The answer only makes sense if you know what CSS is.