Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
Today Facebook announced "custom tags" for developers for use with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) applications. FBML is the language used to create the Facebook apps you have come to know and love.
Google Maps Launches Transit Layer for Over 50 Cities
Google has introduced the Transit Layer on Google Maps for over 50 cities around the world. The goal is to make finding public transportation info easier for citizens and tourists. When viewing applicable cities in Google Maps, if you want to access the Transit Layer, simply click the More button and select the Transit tab.
Carol Bartz To Be Next Yahoo CEO
Yahoo’s search for a new CEO appears to be over. Carol Bartz, an outsider who wasn’t even mentioned on most of the early lists of possible contenders, has won the spot according to several fresh reports.
As Dow Sinks, Charity Traffic Goes Up
There’s probably more than one way to interpret Bill Tancer’s chart comparing visits to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) website and visits to charitable sites. At first glance, if you’re an optimist, it’s a shred of evidence to support faith in our better natures.
Online Video Media Spend To Grow 22%
Online video media spend totaled $2.1 billion in 2008, up 36 percent over 2007, and is forecast to continue double-digit increases through 2010 at a moderating rate, according to a report from AccuStream iMedia Research.The report, "Online Video Media Spend: 2003-2010," calculates multiple ad sales components corresponding to annual growth 2003-2010 by avail unit: pre-roll, In-banner video, overlays, in-game, podcast, player display and skins.
Delicious Founder And Former Yahoo Goes To Google
The shortest drivable route between the headquarters of Google and Yahoo is a little more than five miles long, taking people around a golf course, Moffett Federal Airfield, and Ames Research Center. We’d like to recommend that Google build a direct tunnel to make the ongoing employee transfer easier.
What Will Data Portability Mean to Marketing?
Social media has changed and continues to change the way we communicate both professionally and casually. We talk and share things with our friends and family, and we market our businesses through networking with others and conversing with other professionals.
Facebook Within One Year Of A Win Over MySpace?
Mark Zuckerberg might – just maybe – want to start considering how far in advance big entertainment acts need to be booked. Because, according to new comScore stats, it looks like his social network could be celebrating an important victory over MySpace in about twelve months.
Safety Group Calls For Cell Phone Ban While Driving
The National Safety Council is urging motorists to stop using cell phone and messaging devices while driving, and is calling on businesses to implement policies prohibiting it and governors and legislators in all 50 states to pass laws banning the behavior.
User-Generated Content Sites Pose Security Threats
Significant growth in user-generated content has led to new Internet security threats, according to a new report by Commtouch.The fourth quarter 2008 Internet Threats Trend Report, out today, is based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages and Web sites in real-time at Commtouch’s Global Detection Centers.