Digg CEO Talks Future Plans
Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced some plans for Digg in 2009 today. They involve reducing workers in certain areas and adding workers in others.
PM Candidates In Israel Will Face YouTube Questions
Israel’s next prime minister is supposed to be elected on February 10th, and recent events have served as a clear reminder of this position’s importance. It’s rather impressive, then, that YouTube users have been asked to submit questions for the candidates to answer.
SEC Is Investigating Apple’s Profits
With all the bad economic news flying around including massive Microsoft layoffs, Intel’s first performance concerns in a long time and IBM job cuts, Apple had its best quarter ever as reported in the WSJ.
Is SEO’s Demise On The Horizon
"SEO as we know it will be dead within the next 2 years – true or false? With the wealth of info at their fingertips combined with localized, customized search to name but a few Google will no longer need to do what it does now to determine rankings?" I’d say "false".
Study: Online Bullies Bigger Threat Than Predators
Sometimes we get so caught up with hunting down a remote few monsters, we forget about the gangs of gremlins lurking next door. A controversial new study from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force suggests minors face greater dangers from their peers than from predators.
Microsoft Blurts Out Bad Q2 Info
This morning at Microsoft, it seems that someone sighed, "Let’s get it over with." The company has released a fourth quarter financial report that wasn’t supposed to turn up until after trading hours, and the numbers in it aren’t pretty.
Google Sites, Analytics Get Cozy
Even though people can accomplish great things while working as a team, not being able to measure the results is something of a limiting factor. To fix this problem with Google Sites, then, an integration with Google Analytics has been announced.
Yahoo Not Doing Too Bad in Newspapers
Google recently announced that it would be shutting down its print advertising business after announcing the pulling of the plug on a number of other services last week.
Twestivals: Twitter Communities Meeting In Real Life
If you’re a Twitter user, you like the idea of extending your virtual community into the real world, and you’d be keen to help a worthy cause, Twestival is right up your street.
Ahead Of Earnings Call, Google Faces Tough Climate
Google is set to release its Q4 2008 earnings report tomorrow, and the company will likely set the tone for the entire search marketing industry and the online economy going into 2009. According to a recent market report, Google’s got a tough sell on Thursday.