What Is Twitter About in One Word?

The "what is Twitter about?" article is not a new concept. It's been discussed frequently pretty much since Twitter was launched. Yet people still have a hard time grasping the concept.

Google Calendar Finally Gets Tasks Features

A while back, Google launched a Tasks lab for Gmail. Now they have added a new tasks feature for Google Calendar after many requests for one. There is now a "tasks" link in the upper right-hand corner of the Google Calendar page. Once you click on it, a box will come up on the opposite side of the screen, where you can add tasks in…

Google Launches Interaction Reports for Local Business Ads

As you are probably aware, Google offers local business ads, which are essentially AdWords ads associated with specific business locations. They appear on Google Maps, Google, and across Google's ad network. Earlier this year, Google announced the addition of four new links for these ads - "Get Directions," "Street View" where available, "Save to My Maps," and "Send." The links were introduced as an effort…

Newspaper Company Plans To Charge For Online Content

MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and 53 other daily newspapers plans to start charging for online access to all its newspaper content on its websites. MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton wrote a memo to employees saying, "We cannot continue to give all our content away for free."