Stickam Sticks’em With PayPerLive
I’m going to tell you a story, and I want you to think about which obvious angle I’m leaving out. I bet you’ll be able to nail it. Stickam.com, a social networking site that offers a combinative experience with chat, MySpace-ish profile features, and YouTube quality live webcam feeds, photos, and user-generated video, announced today the beta launch of PayPerLive, a platform allowing Stickam users to charge viewers for access to their webcam feeds.
EasyTweets For Multitwaskers
Cinema has summer blockbusters; developers have summer open API season. Last year, Facebook. This year Twitter. At least until iPhone season. The latest app Twitter mighta shoulda thought of* is EasyTweets, which allows the obsessive, the Type A scheduler, and/or social media multitasker with more than one Twitter account, to manage his or her Twitter efficiency needs.
Google Shows Off Its Search Know-How
Last week, Amit Singhal explained that Google’s search results are manually edited on an infrequent basis. Today, the Google Fellow explored some of the technological achievements that allow for manual interventions to remain so rare.
Pheedo Reaches Into RSS Analytics
The consumption of content today regularly happens beyond the website publishing such content in the first place.
Viacom Goose, Google Gander
The Viacom Google saga gets pretty sticky in terms of ironic and embarrassing potentialities. It’s yet unknown how effective the anonymized data being transferred will be at protecting YouTube identities. Further, what looks like a coup for Viacom could be a nice strategic move on Google’s part.
New Zealand Teen Hacker Escapes Charges
A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a major role in a worldwide cyber-crime ring, which led to millions of dollars of losses, was discharged from court yesterday without any conviction.
Yang Acknowledged Google Deal Is Anticompetitive?
Jerry Yang’s facing all sorts of problems, and his own words may be digging him a little deeper. According to what Microsoft’s general counsel told a Senate antitrust panel, Yang recently admitted that Yahoo’s deal with Google will more or less create a search monopoly.
Lawyer Derided Over Google Domain Ad Suit
The litigant sought class action status for his lawsuit after an investment of $136.11 failed to bring him conversions from parked domains.
Cutts Nips Net Neutrality Conspiracy Theory
Be careful with Google conspiracy accusations; Matt Cutts might make an example of you. After being accused of blocking anti-Net Neutrality pages on the Progress and Freedom Foundation site, Cutts gloats over data to the contrary on his blog. Brett Glass, via Dan Farber’s Interesting People mailing list, discovered only pages on PFF.org’s website pertaining to Network Neutrality were flagged by Google as hosting malware. Once flagged, Google gandalfs the old "you shall not pass" command, barring searchers from accessing the infected page via search results.
Study Urges Legalizing Online Gambling
The U.S. and Canada should legalize and control online gambling to reduce negative effects, because gamblers play more aggressively online than they do in casinos, according to a joint study by the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.The study found that even though online gambling is illegal in the U.S. and Canada it is still easy for gamblers to gain access to sites that are located in other countries. More than $10 billion is spent annually worldwide by people gambling online.