Killing Bad Search Results with Reputation Management
A company called Visible Technologies has just released a new online reputation management solution. It’s called TruRepuation, and aims to provide individuals and companies alike an effective way to manage their reputation in search engine results.
Feds Freeze Online Poker Payments
Federal prosecutors have ordered four U.S. banks to freeze payments of more than $30 million owed to people who play online poker.
The frozen payments are owed to 27,000 online poker players at four offshore sites, including PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com, according to John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), an advocacy group.
Wonder What Percentage of Tweets are Retweets?
HubSpot is the latest organization to release a study on Twitter usage, and shockingly manages to give us some insight that we have not really seen yet this week.
Is Twitter Setup For Easy Stalking?
No, it’s not just the bird. And, no it’s not my opinion. One of my teenagers told me that Twitter is creepy. And I saw a recent post by Paul Dunay where his fourteen-year-old’s friends "wanted nothing to do with [Twitter]." Given the meteoric rise of Twitter, how can it be that at least some members of the digital generation have such negative reactions? These very same kids are active in Facebook beyond all bounds of time management, so they are not cyber-shy.
Online Video Use Rises In April
It seems that more people are watching video online these days. Maybe it’s the rise in unemployment where people are finding more ‘free time’ these days rather than having to be hassled with a job. Maybe it’s the folks at their desks trying to while away the time since there is no business being done? Maybe it’s the high quality of most video on the Internet? Maybe it’s the ‘job outsourcing” craze?
Google Lets Mac Users Quickly Search Outside the Browser
Earlier in the year, Google gave developers a preview of a new open-source quick search box for Mac outside of the browser. The company has now made this available to everyone.
Estimate Puts Craigslist’s 2009 Revenue At $100 Million
According to a new report, Craigslist is doing quite well for itself. The AIM Group estimates that the classifieds site will pull in at least $100 million in revenue this year.
Facebook Vanity URLs Coming Saturday
UPDATE: An "on your mark, get set" announcement has been posted on the official Facebook Blog. According to designer Blaise DiPersia, it’ll be time to "go" at 12:01 AM (EDT) this Saturday, the 13th. DiPersia also provided the following screenshots if you’re curious about what the setup screen and end result should look like.
Original article: Generally speaking, it’s much easier to remember the name of a person or business than a random, nine- or ten-digit string of numbers. Everyone from teenage girls to career-oriented professionals should be happy to hear, then, that Facebook is supposed to make vanity URLs available in the near future.
Google Puts Human Touch Into Machine Translation
Google has announced the launch of the Google Translator toolkit, an editor designed to give translators an easy means of bringing the "human touch" to machine translation, which everybody knows is often flawed.
Google Apps Takes Swipe At Microsoft
Not everyone likes change, and complaints are especially sure to occur when changes are forced upon people. So a certain Mountain View-based search giant, while still pushing its products as replacements for Redmond’s offerings, is trying to bridge the gap with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.