YouTube To Test Personalized Homepage

YouTube said it is testing a new experimental personalized homepage with a small group of users it has selected at random.Don't worry if you are not part of the group testing the new homepage, YouTube says it will give access to everyone in the near future. The experimental homepage will still have "Featured" and "Most Popular" videos but will add personalized recommendations, videos from subscriptions…

CPC Is Flat, But People Are Still Shopping

Speculation as to why Google's paid clicks have flattened in January has led to further speculation that a recession has caused consumers to do less search-initiated shopping. Hitwise's Bill Tancer has information that suggests otherwise.(It occurs to me also that investors have been spoiled by Google's constant growth, as even when Google grows there is disappointment that there wasn't more growth. And flat returns now…

Sound Bites From The Comcast Hearing

Yesterday's FCC "hearing" to discuss Comcast's interference with BitTorrent traffic was more "dogpile on the cable shill." Comcast chose executive VP David Cohen as the bullet-catcher/gauntlet-runner/sacrificial lamb, and Verizon sent its own executive VP, Tom Tauke, presumably for moral support.

Office Open XML Booed By Google

We haven't yet reached the point at which somebody rhymes OOXML with "hell" and starts chanting.  Yet Google's far from happy with Microsoft's submission of Office Open XML as an international standard, and has publicly said as much on its corporate blog.