Yahoo Gives A Peek At BrowserPlus
The portal company opened up a look at its browser-as-application-platform service called BrowserPlus, a dynamic extender of online services.
Google Analytics Eats The Internet
The popularity of Google’s free analytics service brought in a crushing wave of interest when it debuted. That wave flowed into dozens of the top 500 sites in the world.
Become A Part Of Windows Live’s New User Community
Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog: We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery then we have just the community for you.
Windows 7 Gets Multi-Touch Capabilities
OK, so tonight Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed off a tiny piece of Windows 7: that multi-touch capabilities will be built into the OS. Tons of info on this over on TechMeme. Of course, viewers here last week had a lengthy discussion and demo with the guy who invented these features inside Microsoft Research.
Privacy, Online Imagery Don’t Mix
People don’t have an expectation of privacy on a public street, but few expect a walk through the seedier side of town to become a snapshot with a potentially global focus, either.
Study Finds Searchers’ Patience Lessening
Every SEO-type person knows that it’s best to be above the fold on the first page of search results. A new study in which Yahoo, iProspect, and JupiterResearch were all involved drives this point home, however, and then offers a few less-common tips on how to gain a good position.
Citysearch Accused Of Encouraging Click Fraud
IAC’s Citysearch.com picked up a lawsuit accusing it of ignoring and even helping to generate illicit clicks on ads placed on the local search site.
Report: Online Video Viewers To Top One Billion In 2013
Online video’s popularity is going to skyrocket, and there’s no reason for anyone to miss out on the profits, according to a new report. ABI Research predicts that, in the year 2013, over one billion people will watch some sort of clip online.
Amazon Reduces Price On Kindle
Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle electronic book reader by 10 percent and it is now available to customers for $359 down from $399.
Yahoo Goes After Copycat Spammers
Phishing emails occasionally make it through spam filters, and sometimes, they even look genuine. So Yahoo is trying to protect the recipients (and its own reputation) by suing "Yahoo! Lottery Spammers" who use its name in hoaxes.