Hulu Encourages Users To Be Social

Hulu's got a lot working in its favor: good content, high-quality clips, and the whole it's-actually-legal thing.  Now, both users and advertisers should be happy to hear that the video site is gaining a social component, too. 

Facebook CEO Drops Out of Billionaires Club

There are just over 300 fewer billionaires in the world this year, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is one of them. According to Forbes’ latest Masters of the Universe list (my name for it, not Forbes), Zuckerberg’s net worth plummeted by $600 million last year due to Facebook’s inability to make money.

The Twitter Ecosystem Explored

In some business circles, Twitter's an accepted part of the scenery by now; people have figured the service out and are using it to accomplish impressive things.  Not everyone's taken to Twitter like a duck to water, though, and so at PubCon South, a few of the folks who are further along led a session on the Twitter landscape.

Google Checkout Ups Its Fees

In early May, merchants will start being charged larger fees for using Google Checkout. Google is also discontinuing AdWords free transaction processing.

Google Reader Gets More Social With Commenting

Google has added a lot of sharing-based features to Google Reader in recent memory, but it has now launched the ability to have conversations among those who are sharing items. Google acknowledges that this is a key element of sharing that the service has been lacking. I would have to agree.