network
The Free Software Foundation has launched an online petition to convince Amazon.com to drop its use of digital rights management (DRM) technology…
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 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.
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…
You may know a lot about Google Maps Street view, but you might not know everything there is to do with it. Perhaps you don't know much at all. Either way, Google has set up a new site with the goal of making sure everyone who wants to know has access to all of the information that they need regarding Street View. This includes information…
More than half (56%) of Europeans are now regular Internet users compared to one third in 2004, according to a new report from the European Commission. Half of households and more than 80 percent of businesses now have a broadband connection. The most active Internet users are those between the ages of 16 to 24 with 73 percent of them regularly using advanced services to…
