WiMax And Google, In Your Pocket
The conquest of the desktop network ended once Google passed 50 percent of the search market. To grow, they need to roll into broader lands beyond their empire.
Yahoo Business & Human Rights Program Begins
Yahoo’s been the subject of lawsuits, public criticism, and the well-known "moral pygmy" comment due to its human rights policies. The launch of a Business & Human Rights Program represents the company’s latest less-than-remarkable response to all this.
WiMax Ready To Roll From Sprint
By merging its Xohm high-speed WiMax broadband division with Clearwire, Sprint will breathe new life into fast wireless Internet access.
MySpace, Facebook Still On Top
If MySpace were to lose its top spot among social networks, it’d have a long way to fall. Though US visits to the powerhouse were down five percent since last year, MySpace still commanded nearly 74% of the social networking market, according to Hitwise. Facebook, long in second place but up 32%, pulled in nearly 15% of US social networkers, a share that towers over its nearest competitor’s.
Startup Targets Angry eBayers
The founders of a new startup called Wigix are calling eBay old school, and don’t hesitate to target boycotting sellers incensed by recently imposed eBay seller fees. The name is short for WantItGotIt Exchange, and is modeled after the stock market rather than the competitive bid auction model.
Bill Gates Okay With Ballmer’s Decisions
Recounting the recent Microsoft-Yahoo stuff would be a waste of space; we all know what happened and who was involved. One name rarely came up, though, and in case anyone was wondering what Bill Gates thought about the outcome, well . . . he doesn’t seem to have lost sleep over it.
AdSense For Search, Custom Search Come Together
The opportunity to improve a site’s search experience should never be passed up. The opportunity to make money should be absolutely lunged at. So since the development should create both, site owners are almost guaranteed to be happy that AdSense for Search is now powered by Custom Search.
Twitter Took A Week’s Vacation
Among social media and network types of websites, Twitter spent over 37 hours away from the Internet and the service’s users.
Learning About Movable Type On Twitter
If you’re like me, all you’ve heard about in blogging software the last couple of years is WordPress. But as a long-time blogger using Movable Type, I wondered what they have been up to. And then Twitter brought me together with Byrne Reese, Product Manager of Movable Type and Community Leader of MTOS at Six Apart, maker of Movable Type and other offerings.
NBC Back On YouTube
Back in October, NBC took its popular, officially-sanctioned clips off YouTube in favor of their coming Hulu. I (and many others) derided the decision: [I]s it really wise to pull your content from the most popular video site online to put it on your own untested, unproven and apparently behind-schedule video site? On the Internet, you have to go where the people are—it’s not an ‘if you build it, they will come’ world anymore.