Mayoral Candidate Has Facebook Account Hacked
Justin Michael is like many online users.
Sony Ericsson Announces New Products Via Twitter and Facebook
UPDATE: Well, Sony Ericsson has made the announcement and it looks like those of you hoping for the Rachael will be sadly disappointed.
The two products they’ve announced are the C905a Cyber-shot camera phone and the W518a Walkman phone, both of which are coming to AT&T.
Google Captures Nearly Three-Quarters Of Searches
Microsoft’s Bing accounted for 5.25 percent of all U.S. searches for the month of June, according to the latest data from Hitwise.
Google continued to hold on to its dominant position growing 7 percent year-over- year capturing 74.04 percent of the U.S. search market for the month.
Yahoo landed in the second position with 16.19 percent of the search market, but saw its growth drop 17 percent year-over-year, while Ask received 3.15 percent of searches with its growth slipping 22 percent year-over-year.
Is Bing Making Google Better?
Since Bing’s launch, the search engine has garnered quite a bit of attention. This is no surprise since Microsoft invested so much money into marketing it. It may still be too early to tell, but it seems to be paying off so far. Bing’s numbers have edged up since its launch.
Tagged.com Sued By NY AG
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced today that his office intends to sue social networking site Tagged for deceptive email marking practices and invasion of privacy.
eBay Live! Now Defunct
eBay has announced it will no longer be hosting its annual networking event eBay Live!, and will instead focus on a series of local gatherings.
The company told sellers in a blog post Monday that it would be canceling its planned August 2010 event in Orlando, Florida. Its new plan is to host "more local events that don’t require costly travel" for attendees, said president of eBay Marketplaces Lorrie Norrington.
Nielsen Enhances Online Measurement Panel
Nielsen has announced the launch of an expanded panel and platform for measuring Internet audiences.
The new panel increases Nielsen’s measurement of websites from 3,00 to more than 30,000, providing better representation of Hispanic, teens, and cell phone only households, and improves coverage of multiple PCs in households.
Retail Boosts Search Spending In Q2
Search spending from retailers was up 36 percent year-over-year in the second quarter across all major search engines, according to a new report from SearchIgnite.
The trend was not seen in other categories, such as travel and finance, and U.S. search spend was down 6.5 percent for the quarter.
Retail search spend increased steadily as the quarter went on, with June showing an increase in spend of 55 percent compared with June 2008.
Tweeting Harry Potter
Every time I’m ready to write off the the Internet, it (almost) always redeems itself.
Twitter Hires Prominent Lawer Amidst Legal Concerns
It wouldn’t be the Internet if there wasn’t just as much talk of legal action as there is of innovation. Google knows this better than anyone as they fend off lawsuits on a regular basis that are related (at least loosely in some cases) to their offerings and the apparent lines that are crossed by the search giant. Twitter has gotten a taste of that with the Tony LaRussa impersonation account issue.