CNet Facing Shareholder Unrest
A New Year’s downgrade of CNet Networks has an activist group of investors calling for big changes with the company.
Search Wikia Debuts To Mild Reviews
The ambitious project by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, dubbed a Google challenger in search, elicited a tepid response from reviewers.
Hospitals Could Google For Superbug Movement
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a deadly threat to people, especially hospital patients. One effort to track infections in a facility would utilize Google’s PageRank algorithm to do so.
Sheldon Goldberg Sues Google, Yahoo, Etc.
If you’ve ever played a card game on your computer, then, according to Sheldon Goldberg, you may have Sheldon Goldberg to thank for it. Goldberg holds a patent titled "Method and system for playing games on a network," and is now suing companies like AOL, Yahoo, and Google over what he seems to consider his property.
Email Versus Social Networks
There has been a lot of discussion about email becoming an obsolete application and that social networking will eventually take its place.
Broadband Adoption Rising In Asia
Broadband access in the Asia-Pacific region has seen significant growth in the past decade, as operators have upgraded their networks in preparation of future demand for high bandwidth services according to a new study from ABI Research.
Advertising Must Create Value
Scott Karp kicked off the new year with a good post called Five Guiding Principles For The Transformation Of Media Companies. It’s a good post that needs to be read by every executive at major media companies today, and in many ways a lot of it seems like common sense to those who have been watching the transformation occur and understand what’s going on. Specifically though I wanted to address Scott’s final principle:
Online Job Ads Up In December
In December there were 3,541,200 online advertised job vacancies, an increase of 6 percent from last December, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series.While this number is up from last year, it was down by 13 percent from the November level, partly because of a seasonal pattern, which began with the Thanksgiving holiday. There were 2.3 advertised jobs online for every 100 persons in the labor force in December. The monthly decrease in advertised job vacancies occurred in all 50 states and major metropolitan areas.
How Meta Commands Can Help You Love Spiders
Nearly all search engines utilize spiders (which are also known by their original name, robots) to go out and scour the web looking for web pages. These search engine spiders then bring the data back to be indexed by the engine.
Utilizing Social Networks to Make Your Posts Viral
This article talks about how social networks can make a post go viral – or spread like crazy. It focuses specifically on the biggest social networks – MySpace and Facebook. Facebook tends to be a bit more technical – allowing you to utilize apps to spread the word. They also attract different types of people.