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Although the number of Web sites selling controlled prescription drugs, like OxyContin and Valium, has decreased in the past year, 85 percent…
Yahoo! Inc. - Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.
The Center for Democracy & Technology's analysis of behavioral ad targeting done at the ISP level, which claims such targeting "may run afoul of federal and state wiretap laws," comes at a pretty convenient moment for Google. Both the search ad company and the CDT are testifying in front of the Senate Commerce Committee this morning for a hearing about behavioral targeting and privacy.
Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual. But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.
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.
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.
