Zibb Zips In With B2B Search
The electronics and construction industries in particular should find the business to business search concept of Zibb.com useful, as Reed Business’ RB Search division delivers its first product.
Japan Bashing YouTube Over Copyright
Passively waiting for someone to point out that a hosted piece of content violates copyright is not the approach Japanese copyright holders want YouTube to take with uploaded videos.
Microsoft’s Blend: Why not Support Flash?
Adobe’s John Dowdell has the best question (and best set of links) about Microsoft’s new “Blend:” why do it and not support Flash?
Search Continues For CNET Editor
The good news of the rescue of James Kim’s wife and daughters has been tempered by the continued search for the missing editor, who left his family on Saturday to seek help.
Web 2.0 And APIs
Every self respecting search engine has one, loads of other sites have one, and lots of people are using them to make great new stuff: Application Programming Interfaces or API’s. There’s a big but on some of them though
Japan Gunning For YouTube
YouTube the Godzilla of online video is embroiled in another copyright controversy, this time with Japan. It seems the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) is not too happy with infringement taking place on the video site. In a letter sent to Chad Hurley YouTube chief executive officer and Steve Chen […]
Technology Worker Shortage, Everyone on Bandwagon
This week Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) released a report on the state of high tech hiring, and it is really truly a must read.
Europe Embraces Holiday Shopping Online
This week, comScore Networks released the first in its latest series of studies geared at examining the online shopping activity of European citizens throughout the holiday season.
Finding the Strongest Links
Given that many large brands and mainstream media sites are trying to leverage their brand strength by adding interactive content to their sites and every SEO blog in the world (and some from distant universes) have posts about leveraging social media and buidling trust with link baiting, it is probably a pretty safe bet to think that Google is going to be forced away from trusting core domain related trust…and it is going to have to get even better at filtering link quality as well.
Powerful Mobile Application from Windows Live
The Windows Live folks have released a really cool application for mobile phones, one that makes it easier to check out maps and find driving directions and traffic conditions.