Yahoo Provides Means for “Easy” Mobile Site Creation

Earlier this year Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Blueprint Platform was being extended from  several hundred mobile devices in several thousand. Now the company has opened it up to third party developers. The BluePrint is a platform on which developers can create mobile websites. It uses simple XML, and is the same technology Yahoo used to build oneSearch and the Yahoo.com mobile home page.

Reasons to Use Bing for Reference?

Microsoft says that reference search sessions average over 9 minutes in length and over 6 queries per session before the user finds what they are looking for. With that in mind, the company is highlighting how Bing handles reference material. There is clearly great emphasis placed on Wikipedia results, and I have to admit that as I began to read Microsoft's explanation, I was starting…

The News Goes 3D on YouTube

Last week, we took a look at YouTube's testing of 3D videos after a thread was spotted in the YouTube Help Center where an employee was discussing the concept. This was part of his "20%" time.

Google Analytics Gets Event Tracking Advanced Segments

Google announced today that users tracking events on their site using Google Analytics can now define advanced segments to isolate event-related sites. The company points to an example of looking at how visits with events compares to visits overall.