Google Stuff, Minus The AOL Bit

It only seems like the Google deal with AOL was the only thing the search advertising company did this week; this is a quick look at some news out of the Googleplex.

When Email Comes To Dinner

Sadly there were no tales of bad behavior at the home of WSJ.com correspondent Lee Gomes, who invited the heads of email teams from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to dinner with the admonishment that bad behavior would not be tolerated.

Salesforce Hits Problems

This is why I said "give Six Apart a break" a few days ago. Turns out that Salesforce.com had an outage the other day too.

Yahoo Stream Millions For Howard Stern

Yahoo released the metrics for the Howard Stern celebration and the number came to over 4.4 million streams of live video on December 16th. Additionally, more than 214,000 watched the activities after his final day on terrestrial radio. This is the largest live entertainment webcast.