Facebook Makes Friend Organization Easier
If you go to Facebook.com/friends, you can create friend lists on Facebook and organize your friends into different categories. This is good for organization, privacy, and for simply controlling what you see on your home page. This clip pretty much explains what it’s all about:
Using Twitter for a Fresh Approach to eCommerce
Murdok looked at some interesting research from Forrester and Shop.org this week, which indicated that while online retail sales have been increasing, those for the majority of web-only businesses have actually remained flat or on the decline.
One startup launching this week thinks injecting a little human touch into eCommerce can be a way to combat this. Naturally, Twitter is the medium the company’s using to do this.
YouTube Channel Redesign Gets Some Updates
A couple weeks ago, it was uncovered that YouTube was testing a "secret" beta of a new channel layout. Since then, the YouTube team has been hard at work adding new features and making updates to the new channel design.
Google Blocking Torrent Searches
Google is blocking searches originating from torrent sites using Google Custom Search to find .torrent files, according to TorrentFreak.com, a move the founder of the site calls “censorship.”
Hulu Taps Rescue Me Star Denis Leary for Kentucky Derby Ad
Hulu saw a nice jump in viewers after it ran its first television ad during the Super Bowl. That featured Alec Baldwin star of the show 30 Rock, which is available on Hulu.
Advertising Gets “Mixxed” Up
Social bookmarking site Mixx is often compared and contrasted with the more popular Digg. While Mixx does not get the traffic that Digg does, it is often cited as a good alternative to the site.
Mixx has recently launched an interesting advertising tool called the Sifter in which advertisers can submit ads and have "elite" members of the Mixx community decide just how effective those ads are. Mixx CEO Chris McGill and another Mixx spokesperson discussed the Sifter with Murdok.
Increasing The Length Of Your Google Adwords Title
There has been a bit of discussion of late about the length of AdWords ad titles with some advertisers reporting more than 25 characters being displayed in their title.
Flickr Is Target Of Yahoo’s Latest Layoffs
While it is no surprise that Yahoo started announcing the layoffs of between 600-700 people this week (the
Swine Flu Shows Changes In SEO
By now, you have probably heard that the Swine
Online News More Trusted Than TV News
Online news sites are now second only to recommendations from friends as the most trusted source of information in the U.S., according to a survey from TNS.
In the U.S. 38 percent of those surveyed cited online news as the most trusted source of information, while 34 percent trusted newspapers and 33 percent TV news.
Globally, the most trusted information source was friends, with 42 percent of those surveyed saying they trusted word-of-mouth recommendations. Almost an equal number trusted TV news (41%), online news (40%) and newspapers (39%).