Google Book Scans Boosting Sales

The search advertising company has contended its practice of scanning books and presenting snippets of text would help drive interest and sales of books people might not find normally, and it is starting to look like Google was correct.

MagneticTime Takes On Information Overload

Some of us are slow readers. Others of us feel crushed under the reams of text we have to sift through on a daily basis, stealing us away from other, very pressing priorities. Information overload was why Web 1.0 was the Age of the Blurb.

Google Takes YouTube For $1.65 Billion

The video sharing site YouTube finished a busy day of deal with content providers with the announcement that it, too, had closed a big deal in being acquired by Google.

Get Published to Get Ahead

The ambitious today are all on the Web. Writing words, posting pictures, uploading video. It's all about visibility. It's all about being there, being seen in all the right places.