Politics Online: Obama Has An Edge

Social networking, text messaging, and online video pulled in plenty of interested people looking for more details about the candidates for the US Presidential election in November.

Conflicting Futures for Social Networks

It is being said that major social networks like MySpace and Facebook, and perhaps social networks as we know them have reached their climaxes in terms of usage and monetization. Om Malik says these networks are getting a "sanity check", citing new numbers from comScore: Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook —…

Yahoo and Google – How Bad is it?

It’s time for another edition of Good Idea/Bad Idea! Good idea: Making more money. Bad idea: Making more by admitting that you suck and your competition is so good at this that you’ll let them make the money for you. Actually, other than the “admitting you suck and your competition is so good,” that doesn’t sound like an entirely bad idea, does it? I mean,…

Yahoo Punted Recent $9B Microsoft Proposal

An alternative to a full takeover of Yahoo presented the company with a Microsoft offer of a billion dollars for Yahoo's search assets, and $8 billion to buy back stock from corporate raider Carl Icahn and other investors.

Google Users Inclined To Spend Cash Online

The government's plan to stimulate spending by sending out checks may or may not have worked - new Hitwise data doesn't help a lot there.  But other stats indicate that Google fans are a little more prone than Yahoo users to pump money into the online economy.