Hitwise Examines UK Election Interest
If the importance of this presidential election has you feeling anxious, fresh stats from Hitwise may not help much. Essentially, they act as a reminder that the world’s watching, and UK residents in particular seem to be interested in a couple of political figures.There’s been a high volume of searches for Barack Obama since (at least) late last year. Only on a few occasions have searches for the UK’s own prime minister, Gordon Brown, become more common. Meanwhile, interest in Joe Biden has remained quite low even after his nomination.
Do You Want to Want to Convert Feeds to PDFs?
Hewlett-Packard has an interesting new service that allows users to turn RSS feeds into deliverable, printable PDFs. The service is called Tablloid and works basically like other feed readers.
Facebook Leaves its Mark On Elections
There is no denying that the Internet has had a profound impact on this U.S. Presidential race. I have discussed this at length in a previous article. Google has contributed a lot to this, but they are by no means the only Internet entity that has played a role.
Twitter Throws Economy A Surprising Bone
Until somewhat recently, Twitter’s site seemed reluctant to stay in working order. The company still lacks an identifiable business plan. And the economy as a whole has been imitating the current president’s approval rating. But an encouraging new email hints that at least one small job market might be all right, after all.
Google, Yahoo Offer New Ad Deal
Google and Yahoo have offered to decrease the size of their proposed search advertising deal in an effort to receive approval from federal regulators.
Where The Candidates Stand On Web Issues
Surprisingly, the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on issues affecting the Internet are few, but those few are fairly big rifts. The biggest single issue where the candidates differ is Network Neutrality.
Watch the Election Unfold Through Google’s Elections Gallery
Google has been very involved with this election. They’ve released tools for voters to find out voting information. They’ve released a tool for volunteers to help recruit voters.
Google Helps Kids Get Messages to Next President
Google (specifically Google Docs) has teamed up with the National Writing Project to sponsor a program that lets students around the U.S. write letters to the presidential candidates in a program appropriately titled: Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future.
Social Networking Use Popular At Work
The most popular sites viewed by employees in the United States and United Kingdom while at work include Web 2.0 destinations that feature video, third party applications, and social networking and news sites, according to a new survey from Internet security firm 8e6 Technologies.
Google Expands Another API
As mentioned previously, Google is spending a lot of time "in the clouds" so to sepak. They’ve been emphasizing cloud computing a lot lately, even going so far as to make a 99.9% guarantee with regarding to up-time for Google Apps.