YouTube Gets Tougher On Sexual Content

Marketers, young men, and YouTube's many bikini-clad seductresses are about to get an unpleasant surprise.  As part of what appears to be a crackdown on both sexual content and more general attempts to mislead users, the video-sharing site is pushing the pretty ladies off some of its most popular pages.

Blogspot’s Content Warning Blocking Spiders

Edgy bloggers using Google’s Blogspot might have been miffed already—but likely also understood—at Google slapping content warnings over their adult-oriented material and demanding age verification. But what might deter (poorly) minors from viewing is also preventing search crawlers from accessing the content at all.

Mobile Tuesday Meets Inevitability

Truth be told, advertisers never met a bandwagon they didn’t like. Enter the first Mobile Tuesday, an extension, of course, of Black Friday and recently created Cyber Monday. If you’re one of 18,000 who signed up via Black Friday leak sites, you should be receiving promotional offers from McDonald’s, Finish Line, and RedTag.

Google Starts Countdown To 2009

Never mind partridges, pear trees, turtledoves, and so forth.  To a certain search giant, one of the best presents it can give seems to be the gift of itself.  Google's counting down the days to 2009 by presenting tips on how to use its various products and services.

Flock Works With MySpace On OpenID

Good news for those who are users of the Flock browser, the company announced today that it now supports OpenID.Flock worked with MySpace and Vidoop to develop OpenID in the browser. Flock says that it now offers the most comprehensive discovery and management capabilities for OpenID currently available.OpenID for Flock is now available to all Flock 2.0 users as an alpha extension. It's available for…