Google Sends Partners to Search Appliance Customers

Google is giving new Enterprise Search Appliance customers an "ROI JumpStart". What this means is they're sending people to help you deploy it for two days. These people come from "select Google enterprise partners." New customers who license a GSA covering one million documents or more by September 30 are eligible.

Rumors Suggest Apple May Compete with PayPal

Reports have "Wall Street Gossips" talking about Apple working on a "PayPal killer". This would be in the form of the iTunes store turning into a payment system. There's no telling how much truth there is to these rumors, but the world is going to need some more options when PayPal goes down, as it did last night, causing quite a stir across the web.…

Adopting Social Media For Internal Use

Results from an interesting study with a different spin on social media were released by Nielsen Norman Group. These things often look at social media adoption by businesses, but this one looks specifically at social media adoption within enterprise intranets. The study found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets began as underground, grassroots efforts by front-line employees. They were…

YouTube Gets Its Own AdSense

YouTube may have just begun implementing its real moneymaker. The world's most popular video site is now essentially offering its own AdSense-style program. That comparison comes straight from the horse's mouth, mind you. Last year, YouTube launched "Promoted Vidoeos." Now they are putting those on watch pages in the "related videos" section.

Flickr Refines Search Results Pages

There is a lot of redesigning of Yahoo properties going on these days. Earlier today, some big changes were announced for delicious. The Yahoo homepage was recently redone of course. Now Flickr has redesigned its search results page. The company says the new design makes it easier to browse through the billions of photos and videos on the site, and to connect to the communities…