New York Times Site To Get Purple States Videos
The Gray Lady will soon get a splash of color: this Friday, videos from PurpleStates.TV should go live on The New York Times’s website.
Google Offers Reprieve From Google Hell
Webmasters can stop fretting about Google’s supplemental results – they’re not really there anymore. Google has lifted the veil between indices.Google introduced its supplemental results in 2003, much to the chagrin of webmasters actively looking to have more of their content indexed for search. In what the company then called "a new Google experiment," a pair of indexes were created, one for the search engine’s main results, and a second for more obscure queries.
Facebook Releases Friend Lists
Facebook’s been challenged by something of an identity crisis as both traditional social networkers and true professionals have tried to use the site. Now, to reduce the odds of a mix-up ("My boss is here? But it’s strip poker night!"), Facebook’s unveiled an organizational tool known as Friend Lists.
Latest Facebook Lawsuits, Features
There’s another rash of Facebook headlines today, and for once it looks like they’re all different. Keep reading—I’m saving the best for last! Lawsuits of late Facebook is always in and out of court. Sometimes they’re the plaintiff, such as in a case they’ve filed in federal court against some hackers, naming Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, Ming Wu and Slickcash.com.
Careful, That C&D Letter Might Be Copyrighted
Here’s a case that’ll likely leave you with an icky feeling. A lawyer for a large company in Idaho copyrighted a cease-and-desist letter, and when an anonymous blogger posted the letter on his blog, the company subpoenaed the blog hosting company for the blogger’s identity in order to pursue copyright infringement claims.
Half Of Mac Users Pay To Download Music
In the third quarter of 2007 half of all Mac users had paid to download music tracks from sites like iTunes, but just 16 percent of PC owners had done so, according to NPD’s quarterly Digital Music Monitor.
Steve Webb Un-Suspended From Facebook
It’s hard to blame Facebook for trying to remove phony profiles – the social networking site has often been made fun of for, say, having over a dozen Jack Sparrows onboard. Facebook’s employees accidentally went too far, though, when they disabled the profile of a member of the British Parliament.
LeWeb Attracts La Controverse
You won’t get to see the video; it was taken down faster than a…well, let’s not answer possibly offensive with possibly also offensive. (But you have to admit, the list of French things that could be taken down quickly is virtually limitless, and most likely very funny to everybody but the French.)
Bloglines Beefs Up
Before we had Google Reader, the biggest kid on the RSS reader block was Bloglines. While Google has taken that title, away from the Ask.com owned service, Bloglines has been back to the gym recently and added some bulk. Bloglines has rolled out a slew of new features today, including:
Using WoM to Create Buzz
“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, that is not being talked about” -Oscar Wilde Yesterday I heard Andy Sernovitz speak about word of mouth marketing – one of the most imaginative ways to attract customers. Just like we want to be friends with and around people we like, we buy from companies we like.