Obama’s Change.gov Goes Live

Well, he didn’t waste much time. President-elect Barack Obama already has his new website up and running: Change.gov. And guess what? You can apply for a job at the White House there. No doubt Obama utilized the Web better than any candidate before him. He raised a ton—stacks and stacks—of money online, $5 and $10 at a time, hired an SEM expert before it was…

Craigslist To Get Tough On Sex Ads

Craigslist said today it is implementing new measures, in partnership with state law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), to prevent its online classifieds from being used for prostitution, child exploitation, and other illegal activity.The measures are part of an agreement between Craigslist, NCMEC, and attorneys general of more than 40 states. The move was spearheaded by Connecticut Attorney General…

Check Your Pulse with Twellow

Our own Twellow service, which serves as something of a yellow pages directory for Twitter, has added a new feature called "Twellow Pulse." It is designed to give you an idea of the status, or "pulse", of what's going on at any given time within each its categories. Twellow Pulse does the following:

Report: YouTube To Offer Feature Films

Google didn’t exactly deny reports YouTube would be streaming full-length feature films sometime within the next three months. In fact, it was more of a well, we’re talking to lots of people right now.

The Difference in Holiday Growth: Online and Off

As the holidays approach, are people going to do their shopping online or off? Well, both of course, but Hitwise shares some data that sees online shopping growth at 4.19% over the past four weeks, and that is up from 1.94% growth from the same period last year.