Google Has To Give Up Personal YouTube Data
Just yesterday, I had a conversation, agreeing that the only thing that could topple Google, would be privacy. The same day, a judge presiding over the Google/Viacom case issued a court order requiring Google to turn over your personal data.
Selling Your Soul On The Internet Is Hell
Things aren’t cool anymore once everybody starts doing them, that’s the Law of Cool*. The same applies to selling one’s immortal soul on the Internet, which has entered let’s-throw-a-toga-party-like-they-did-on-Animal-House status**. Our latest soul peddler is from New Zealand, who learned like others before him that hosted auction websites don’t want anywhere near his soul or lack thereof.
Hitwise Proves The Value Of Yahoo’s Non-Search Parts
Suppose that Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang miraculously agreed on something: the sale of Yahoo’s search department. A new Hitwise report sorts through the pile of properties that would remain, and as it turns out, the leftovers look pretty tasty.
More Than Half Of Americans Have Broadband Connections
Over half (55%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed Internet connection at home, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.The percentage of Americans with broadband has increased from 47 percent in early 2007 and 42 percent in early 2005. Of those who access the Internet at home, 79 percent have a high-speed connection and 15 percent use dialup.Adults who live in households whose annual incomes are less than $20,000 a year, home broadband adoption was at 25% in early 2008, compared to 28 percent in 2007.
Ball Girl
A video on YouTube depicting a ball girl at a minor league baseball game making an unbelievable catch is actually a shelved ad for Gatorade.The ball girls superhuman leap was actually done by a stuntwoman who was helped into the air by cables. The accidental viral video has received more than 3.5 million hits on a variety of Web sites within the last month.
Study: Online TV Content Ads Connect With Car Shoppers
Online television is nice for all sorts of reasons – the convenience, the selection, the lack of cost. And for advertisers, online content linked to television is nice because it’s helpful in selling new cars.
Google Maps For Mobile Gains Voice Search
Carefully weigh how much you dislike typing on cell phones against how much you want to keep private whatever you’re researching. Then, if you dare, check out the new voice search abilities connected to Google Maps for mobile.
Army Blogger Ordered To Shutter Site
A solider in the U.S. Army has been ordered to shut down his blog for writing posts that criticized his superior officers.Blogging about the Iraq war under the pseudonym "LT [Lieutenant] G" since December 2007 the popular blog called "Kaboom: A Soldiers War Journal," detailed the daily life of the war describing firefights, combat patrols and tribal meetings.
Microsoft Still Playing Footsie With Yahoo
Getting pandas to mate couldn’t be much more difficult than getting Microsoft and Yahoo to. Mr. Softy makes a grand display, woos, is rejected; Yahoo changes heart, does a strip tease, but Mr. Softy’s pride is too wounded. The insider drama revealed in a lengthy report by the Wall Street Journal plays out like a pair of lovers flirting with disaster one way or the other.
Google Changing Name Of Picasa To ‘Google Photos’
The Google Operating System blog reports that Google is likely changing the name of their Picasa photo sharing service to “Google Photos”. A few other features are due to rollout as well, including licensing options, email photo uploads, and tagging of people in pics.