Heavy Twitters Chat Up 248 People Weekly
A couple centuries ago, especially for the rural diasporas, communicating with somebody outside of your immediate family may have been a rare treat. Today about seven million people communicate with an average of 248 people per week via social media’s one-to-many communication capabilities.
Is Cable Purposefully Delaying Super Fast Web?
Depending on whom you ask, you’ll get a much different answer to this question: If Japan can have 160 megabits-per-second over cable for $60 per month, why can’t we have that in the US?
Currently, the best one can do in the States is 50 Mbps for $140.
Google/Twitter Concept Inspires Imaginations
There’s been an unbelievable amount of buzz circulating around an acquisition that everyone likes to fantasize about, but may or may not ever actually occur. I’m talking of course about Google buying Twitter.
Credit Crunch Driving Small Town Industrial Espionage?
It’s a bit of a vicious cycle: Greedy, bad actors taking advantage of the good times until good times end in bad times and a different set of greedy, bad actors start taking advantage of the bad times—and there goes a little more faith in humanity.
When the press and the security industry weren’t obsessed with the non-event of the Conficker.C worm, warnings went out about laid-off employee sabotage and theft, spam targeting the financially concerned and technological clueless. Today’s stern warning is about industrial espionage.
AP Launches News Content Protection Initiative
The Associated Press has announced its plan to launch an initiative to protect news content from "misappropriation" online.
"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," says AP Chairman Dean Singleton.
Google Car Harassed By British Villagers/Cops
Google Street View cars are hitting roadblocks in England, quite literally. If it’s not the cops in one town, it’s human shields in another.
I’ve never been England, and all I know about British roads is from movies, and from what I gather they are often clogged with sheep. In one village, called Broughton, people shooed off the sheep to block the road personally. They heard they Google car was coming.
No More PPC for Amazon Associates
Amazon is ending the payment of referral fees to associates in North America using pay-per-click (PPC) to get traffic. This is effective beginning May 1st.
The change is not temporary. Amazon will not reinstate payment of referral fees to paid search associates. They say the decision to make the change is based on their review of how they invest their advertising resources.
Google Launches Gadget for Insights for Search
Google has introduced an iGoogle gadget for Insights for Search. It displays the top rising searches and top related searches on your Google home page. Users can change the settings to show results for a specific location, keyword, category, or source.
Google Health And CVS Expand Partnership
CVS Caremark has expanded its partnership with Google Health by offering its pharmacy customers the ability to download their prescription and medication histories to their Google Health account.
Customers filling prescriptions at CVS pharmacy stores can now add their medication history to their online medical record directly from CVS.com.
Steve Case’s PayPal Rival Gets Big Funding
Revolution Money is an online payment company owned by AOL co-founder Steve Case.