International Dealings Tough For Yahoo
The choice between having no presence in a country or some presence means complying with laws that outsiders will question.
Google: We Really Tried To Get 700MHz License
Now that FCC requirements on not discussing the wireless spectrum auction have passed, Google disclosed a little information about the process and their participation.
Craigslist Blogs, And They Aren’t Happy
Mouthy state attorney generals and music-blaring competitors made an appearance in the new Craigslist blog.
Web Info Leads To “Shocking” Crime
Putting to use knowledge gained from the Internet, a Connecticut teen was arrested for attempting to shock a classmate—literally shock a classmate—with a rigged disposable camera.Twenty years ago, this would have earned you detention. In light of certain third graders, though (among other nightmarish events), it means calling the cops.
7 Reasons You May Not Be Getting Work Done
I am subscribed to a website called Daily Blog Tips. it is a great website that commonly has some great nuggets of information on how to make you blog run smoother and in general make life online a lot easier. I spotted a great post today on their called: 7 Reasons Why You Might Never Be Productive
Global Olympic Blog Project
This past week in the string of posts about the book coming out, I’ve been stockpiling ideas for "real" blog posts and wanting to write about them more and more. Thankfully now that I launched the Personality Matters blog, I will post most of the updates about the book there and refocus on marketing strategy and insights here. I can’t promise I won’t share the occasional post about the book …
SEO Step Eight Of Ten: Statistics Analysis
Welcome to step eight in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are:
Score Another For Citizen Journalism
Webmasters scored another victory in the court system recently when a Vermont judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman upset by comments made about her by a third party commentator.Superior Court Judge David Howard upheld provisions set forth under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, enacted by the US Congress in 1996, which protects providers of interactive computer services from liability for content posted by third parties.
Google Maps Gets Contour Lines
Contour lines don’t come up on a daily basis; it’s rare enough that anyone even checks a map. But contour lines do have a number of uses, and Google has just introduced the lines on its Terrain Maps option within Google Maps.
Getting Ranked In Google News
The Google News Team has an interesting blog post about the "truths and myths" of how Google includes and ranks articles.Some of the facts that stand out include "Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH. While having a good image with your article does improve your chance to get your picture shown, it has no impact on the ranking of the article itself."