How Did Zune Get Its Name?
The SF Gate has an article where David Placek, founder and CEO of Lexicon, disusses how his company came up with the name Zune. Some bullets:
Duncan Riley leaves B5 Media
I was just over at Robyn Tippins blog. She blogs for B5 Media and reports that Duncan Riley, vice president of development for B5 Media has left B5.
Redirect Your MySpace Traffic with Flash
Well, we all know that MySpace pages have the potential to drive a ton of traffic.
Wikipedia No Longer Banned in China
Almost one year to the day after the Chinese government placed a ban on both the English and Chinese-language versions of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, both have been lifted.
Douglas’ Termination Memo
For those who like nothing better than a little behind-the-scenes corporate intrigue in the blogosphere, the guys over at 10 Zen Monkeys have some more deets on the sudden departure of Nick Douglas from Valleywag – where he was replaced by another guy whose initials are N.D., and whose name rhymes with Nick Denton (for an earlier installment of the Nick Douglas saga, scroll down a few posts).
Google’s Landing Page Rating Still A Mystery
Earlier this month, Google revealed a planned series of changes to the way that AdWords evaluates landing page quality. In the first of a two-part series, the Inside AdWords team attempts to address the bevy of questions that have accompanied the announcement.
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Launch Sitemaps.org
Watch the Murdok exclusive video in which Chris Richardson interviews Tim Mayer of Yahoo and Vanessa Fox of Google. They talk about their new Sitemaps.org partnership.
The “Economics Of Abundance”
In a nutshell: Economics, economies and economic theory have all been based on economics of scarcity.
Webcasting As Advertising
ON24 announced a new product offering this week. It’s called Bannercast Live, and the concept in a nutshell gives users the ability to paste a live webcast directly into a website banner advertisement.
Dealing with Comment Spam
If you run a web site that allows comments, you are going to get comment spam – that’s just a fact of life in the current Internet.