DC Kills Superman (Again)
Some in Metropolis will use eBay for evil—like selling one’s wife*—but in the heart of the heart of the city, a charitable and well-intentioned soul battles two great forces at once: cancer and DC Comics.
Traffic To Twitter Nearly Doubles In Two Months
Twitter’s been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo’s board.
Cox, Comcast Caught Red-Dotted
Only two countries in the world have ISPs actively blocking or interfering with BitTorrent transmissions: Singapore and the United States. Only one kind of ISP in both countries, though, is doing the blocking: cable. An independent test conducted by Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Software Systems showed that Comcast and Cox are both currently interfering with BitTorrent despite recent public and regulatory outrage.
A Short Guide To Carl Icahn’s Ten Men
Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo’s board of directors. Icahn’s even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.
Yahoo’s SearchMonkey Comes Out To Play
Want to "have a hand in shaping the next generation of search"? Or at least pad your wallet with ten thousand dollars? Yahoo has opened its new SearchMonkey platform to all developers, and at the same time, announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.
Fair Outcomes strives for fair eBay settlements
Disputes between buyers and sellers over e-commerce transactions need not end up as a court battle, if the parties opt to give the Fair Reputations System a try.
When To Adobt The SEO Of Tomorrow?
Within the mass confusion that can erupt when there is a blog controversy, occasionally a thoughtful post will emerge. Last week ShoeMoney wrote about the Death of SEO and here on this blog Greg Howlett supported that theory, while I spoke up to disagree with those opinions. Others have also been discussing the topic and Joost de Valk, has chimed in as well, after
YouTube’s New Ad Program
Monday we mentioned that Google was pondering new ways to monetize YouTube videos.
Buyout The Best Sites, Beat Google
Mark Cuban suggested Yahoo or Microsoft could payoff the top five sites for each of the top 25,000 queries on Google, have those sites leave the Google index for good, and bring Google’s normal traffic for those sites into the rival fold.