BigChurch Means Big Money For Penthouse
We’re not the first to notice and double-take. Penthouse Media Group Inc.’s ownership of a Christian dating website called BigChurch.com has been mentioned by a few publications, but usually as an ironic side note. Understandable. It’s kind of a heavy (yes, quite loaded) subject. However, PMGI CEO Marc Bell tells Murdok it’s just business.
Icahn May Move To Replace Yahoo’s Board
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn made his intentions known after acquiring some 50 million shares of Yahoo stock: he’s going to wage the proxy fight that Microsoft chose not to conduct.
Hackers Focusing On VoIP Accounts
Hackers are in the early stages of targeting voice-over IP telephony accounts according to one VoIP equipment maker.Private information, including usernames and passwords from VoIP phone accounts are being sold online for more than stolen credit cards Newport Networks says. The information lets hackers use the telephone service for free.
Earthquake In China Unnoticed By Google?
This article was going to be a quick roundup of Google’s response to the earthquake in China – mention a donations page here, a map there, done. As it turns out, though, the company didn’t provide much material.
Google Starts Blurring Faces On Streetview
Last month, Google had incorporated a new feature in Google Maps, called ‘Street View’. Besides fetching directions for a destination, this feature enabled users to view images of their destination and its routes as well.
Commenting Through Disqus
If you aren’t a blogger you probably haven’t noticed this company named Disqus unless you really are paying attention when you leave a comment. But head over to Dave Winer’s blog, click on the comments, and if you leave a comment there, like I just did, you aren’t actually leaving it on Dave Winer’s blog. You’re using Disqus’s commenting service. “So what?” you’re probably asking. Well, there’s a few things that Disqus does.
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Beta
Microsoft offered a sneak peak back in February, and as of Tuesday the public beta of WorldWide Telescope has been made available, according to a Press Release issued by Microsoft.
Google Analytics Admits Errors, Data Loss
Human nature being what it is, people often find a way to complain about excellent free products. Yet following an admission that Google Analytics experienced errors for most of a week and permanently lost some data, users are taking the news rather well.
Netvibes Shares Feeds With ReadBurner
Users of the available everywhere desktop service Netvibes gained the ability to share items of interest with others; it’s plugged into ReadBurner as well, which led us to ask, “What’s that?”
Google Inching Toward 70%
Whatever happens in Google’s peripheral industry dabbling, the search giant lives up to its core reputation by grabbing 67.9 percent of US searches in April, a 4 percent increase year-over-year, according to Hitwise. The usual rivals are present in the top four with a noticeable decline for third-place breath-holder MSN. Microsoft’s confusingly branded search engine dropped from 6.65 percent in March to 6.26 percent in April, down from 7.77 percent a year ago, and down significantly from search share once hovering around 12 percent.