WSJ Sets Guidelines For Employee Use Of Social Media
GMail Makes It Easier To Sign Up
Twitter Co-Founder Apologizes For Hasty Update
So Twitter caused a bit of controversy this week as they changed their @replies feature in a way that actually effected just 3% of their users
Trademark Owners Up In Arms With Google’s New Policy
The online world is noisy enough as it is. Everyone is trying to get everyone’s attention to sell whatever it is they have.
Hulu Continues Rapid Growth
Update: Hulu is reportedly critical of the latest ranking it has received from Nielsen Online.
Nielsen reported 8.9 million visitors to Hulu in March, while comScore said there were 42 million. There were 373 million videos viewed on Hulu in April, up from348 million in March. Even though the number of videos viewed was up, Nielsen said unique visitors to Hulu had declined from 9.5 million in February to 8.9 million in March to 7.4 million in April.
Twitter, Facebook Driving Social Networking Growth
April saw Americans flock online for the latest information related to the swine flu, causing traffic to surge at CDC.gov, according to new data from comScore.
The month also saw visits to social networking sites reach record numbers, driven by growth at Twitter and Facebook, as well as an increase in visits to real estate and home-related sites as the spring prompted many Americans to consider home improvements. The tax category also experienced strong growth due to the April 15 deadline.
Google Blog Search Given Tune-up
Google Blog Search has – in theory, at least – gotten better. A slight overhaul was performed yesterday, with changes in both the engine’s algorithm and the site’s appearance being implemented.
Twitter and Google Respond to Their Respective Uproars
Two of the biggest names on the web had interesting weeks. Google experienced a big outage across a number of its services and Twitter mad a change to how it handles replies and sent a tidal wave of backlash throughout its user base.
Both companies received their fair share of negative responses from users, and both have responded to those responses on their respective blogs.
The Google Situation
Facebook Begins Testing Payments System
Facebook will reportedly begin testing a payments system in the coming weeks. This will start with a few developers, exploring ways for users to use Facebook credits with third-party apps on Facebook.
Google Slows to a Crawl
Update: Google has addressed the issue on the Official Blog. The company says: