Google Launches Lively Virtual Rooms
A few days ago, Marissa Mayer wrote a blog post about Google’s homepage, and an obsession with simplicity and clean design became almost painfully clear. Now, her company’s launching a sort of fragmented virtual world in which users can choose cats as avatars and hug each other underneath dinosaur skeletons.
Barnacles! YouTube Ad Potential Dragged Down
Despite millions of visitors to video sharing site YouTube, Google hasn’t managed to find a key that unlocks the magic box of revenue for the site.
Microsoft Enjoys Mild Patch Tuesday
Windows users and system administrators should breathe a little sigh of relief as Microsoft’s light package of patches for July, but a recently discovered Critical problem with Snapshot Viewer still lacks a solution.
Blog Comment Ownership Question Resurrected
This is a topic destined for a courtroom one day, bitter enemies formed along the way: Can a blog publisher collect blog comments and publish them in a book? We addressed this topic weeks ago, with no definitive answer. The question arises again today as a result of simultaneous, otherwise minor, occurrences.
Rumors Circulating That Twitter Has Bought Summize And Stable
Just when you thought Twitter was a dead duck, a flurry of news suggests there’s life in the old bird yet!
Bebo Scores Former Google Exec
AOL’s Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it’s not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network’s newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.
Twitscoop Fixes Breaking News
Twitter’s cool, no doubt, but what enhances its coolness are the applications developing in the periphery, all of which seem to extract from Twitter’s deep reservoirs of cool and redistribute along the Internet. Recently, Twellow and Summize have surfaced. Before that it was TwittEarth, which lets you be a giant fly on the wall of the world.
Gmail Knocking Out Two Big Phishing Threats
PayPal and eBay have long drawn the attention of criminal phishers who try to spoof the companies and steal login information from their customers.
Twitter (Maybe) Buying Summize
A rumor pops its head out this morning that Twitter is negotiating to buy Summize, a search engine allowing users to dig through tweets on Twitter. Before we continue, let’s take a moment to appreciate the quality snark emanating from David Fry via Twitter rival FriendFeed: One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company?
Microsoft missed a chance at rebirth
A time machine, not a deal with Yahoo, would be what Microsoft needs if it really wants to beat Google.