Search Tool for Colleges Emerges
College Kingdom has launched new search tools for students, or anyone for that matter, to search over seven thousand colleges’, universities’, career schools’, and adult education programs’ websites all at once.
Strike TV Deadline Approaches
It’s been two months. We’re all sure our favorite shows are on their last reserves of scripts. And now the Writers Guild of America finally means it. They’re bringing in the big guns. Er, pens. Today is the deadline for “Strike TV” proposals. And what is Strike TV? It will be an online video channel featuring professional WGA scripts.
Is the SEM Industry Headed Toward Hostility?
Some time last year I realized my association with the search engine optimization and marketing industry might change because the atmosphere was getting partisan. Bad feelings between leaders were festering and it didn’t take much of a nudge to start a rumble. The situation isn’t improving and I wonder why. Case in point is a recent bit of flap over an article that went out by someone well respected, which in hindsight was an error in judgment. Apologies have been made but it won’t end there because something has drastically shifted in the industry.
Vertical Search Any Competition for Google?
Sramana Mitra has a post over at GigaOm that plays on her interest in Web3.0, which she defines on her site as the “verticalization of the web around specific Contexts”.
Net Neutrality Groups Press FCC
Free Press, the organization behind SaveTheInternet.com, responded to the Federal Communications Commission’s expressed intent to investigate Comcast and Verizon Wireless over alleged content blocking. The group urged the FCC to respond quickly in order to protect the free flow of information on all networks.
iTunes Movie Rentals, Waifish Macbook In The Air
Well, it’s not going to cause quite the media-wide paroxysm the Jesus phone (iPhone, for the uninitiated or unacquainted with light-hearted sacrilege) caused last year at Macworld, but there’ll probably be sufficient tremulous giddiness about the world’s thinnest notebook computer, the MacBook Air.
Amazon Taking On French Law
Online retailer Amazon.com will pay 1,000 euros ($1,500) a day in fines in order to offer free shipping in France while it appeals a December court ruling that made the practice illegal.
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, sent an email to customers of its French Web site stating Amazon will continue to offer free shipping while waiting for the outcome of the appeal.
Facebook News Feed To Treat Apps Differently
To be honest, I’m not all that interested in how well my friends scored on some sort of Disney princess quiz. Yet Facebook still seems as likely to show me this as any other piece of news. Until now, anyway – the social networking site is altering its News Feed evaluation process.
Google Acts Fast To Counter Microsoft
An enterprise search play by Microsoft, a $1.2 billion purchase of Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer, may be on the minds of Google.
Badoo’s ‘Rise Up’: Number One For A Buck
In a world where venture capitalists throw millions at startups, social networking site Badoo is happy with a dollar/euro/pound at a time.