Google Announces New Content Network Features
A conversion might, if an advertiser is lucky, take place after a consumer sees a single ad. Several viewings are slightly more likely to result in a positive outcome. But there’s little to be gained the 48th time around, and in a nod to this reality, Google’s introducing some new features on its content network.
Parents Monitoring Kids Social Network Use
Close to a quarter of children in the UK between the ages of 8 and 12 are able to get around age restrictions imposed by social networks Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, according to a survey by online identify firm Garlik.Because of this the majority (72%) of parents are monitoring their kids online activity. Twenty-five percent of parents secretly login to their child’s social networking page and over a quarter (26%) have created their own social networking profile to monitor their kids.
Microsoft Wields Updated Webmaster Tools
Microsoft’s Live Search behavior should yield more information to site publishers as the company took its Webmaster Tools out of beta and tweaked them with some new features.
Google Copyright Lawyer Seals His Blog
Highly public position allegedly caused confusion with readers who attributed his personal views to be Google’s opinions.
Got Crawl Issues? Live Search Can Help
Microsoft launched its first major update to Live Search Webmaster Tools since November, adding crawl issue feedback, backlink data, improved filtering, and the ability to export data in CSV format to Excel for offline analysis. Update: Five minutes after publishing, the Live Search Webmaster Team let us know they were delayed a little, and that the update should go live at 5:00 EDT.
DOJ Files Complaint Against Internet Ad Company
The U.S. Department of Justice wants to seize the property and $53 million from the owner of a Florida- based Internet company that allegedly was involved in a massive Ponzi scheme.A Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who around 100 years ago tricked thousand of New Englanders into investing their money with him. Money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the scheme collapses.
Rocketboom Teams Up With Sony
It took a couple of years and few crises but Rocketboom is set to take off. Founder Andrew Baron just inked a seven-figure plus revenue-sharing deal with Sony to distribute the webcast across its properties, including Crackle.com, Playstation 3, Playstation Portable, Bravia i-Link and syndicated network of 3rd party distributors.
MySpace To Launch Web Site For Presidential Debates
MySpace is launching a Web site that will be focused on the upcoming presidential debates.MyDebates.org was created through a partnership with the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and will officially launch in late September in time for the first presidential debate.
Getting Olympic Content On Your Blog
I just landed in Beijing and will be spending the next two weeks here as part of the promotional efforts for what I have previously called my dream project, helping Lenovo to promote its Voices of the Summer Games site that features 100 Olympic athletes blogging their journies to Beijing and experiences at the Olympics.
Yahoo Reveals Voting Miscount
Yahoo was almost ready to put its recent problems behind it; the company had fought off Microsoft, brought Carl Icahn onboard, and survived the annual meeting with its board intact. Only now it turns out that the shareholder vote didn’t go nearly so well as was first reported.