Sphinn Takes On Upcoming Spammers
The SEO-friendly social media site Sphinn may have been a little too friendly with submitters, something they addressed with a recent site change.
Miri Systems Aims To Reduce Online Fraud
Miri Systems, a privately owned developer of the Miri Card designed to allow credit card users make secure transactions online by providing a unique number for each purchase recently spoke to Murdok about its technology.
5 Tech Deals That Should Happen
Today’s big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million. Makes sense to me. Particularly given some of Google’s recent experiments having social voting in their search results pages.
Google Hearts Digg Rumors Resurface
For the third time this year speculation has aroused around an impending sale of Digg.com to Google. Is the third time a charm? We may not know for a couple of weeks, but at least this latest round of slow-news-day maybes has a rumored letter of intent and a believe-it-or-not deadline.
Online Presence Vital For Offline Retail
The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in retail for brick and mortar retailers, even for purchases made in-store according to a new survey from Nielsen Online.People who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick and mortar store, 80 percent bought from a store whose Web site they visited first. In addition 53 percent purchased from a retailer on whose Web site they had spent the most time.
Viacom CEO: Google’s Infringement A Calculated Risk
No doubt the high priced attorneys working for Viacom will have to prove CEO Philippe’s Dauman’s words in court—or at least sell them well enough to convince those that matter. The rhetoric reporters recorded last night was far from clouded: Eric Schmidt and Google had no intention of fighting copyright violations on YouTube so long as it helped them get to the top of the online video market.
Social Media And Advertising Campaigns That Should Retire
I’ve been speaking at a lot of events lately, and several focus on similar topics in social media or interactive marketing. One of the consistent problems with speaking at events like this is that there is a danger of using or hearing the same examples and stories over and over. As my volume of speaking increases, this is one of my big concerns … that people will opt out of coming to hear me speak because they feel like they’ve heard my point of view before.
Microsoft Looks To Users For New Xbox Games
Microsoft has announced that it will start offering user-generated games for their Xbox 360 gaming console through the online Xbox Live service.The company said it will start selling user-generated games later this year on its online Xbox Live service and share as much as 70 percent of the revenue with game developers.
Google’s Walking Directions Debut
Walking directions first became visible to some Google Maps users about two weeks ago, and whatever tests the company conducted apparently went well. Walking directions are now available to everyone, with Google answering several of the questions that came up.
Google PageRank Patent May Go Poof
New criteria for restricting the scope of what the US Patent Office considers patent-worthy poses a threat to numerous software patents, including Google’s famed PageRank.