Google Privacy Channel Launches On YouTube
The bigger Google gets, the more worried privacy advocates grow. So, in an effort to make its policies and opinions more transparent, the search giant has launched a new “Google Privacy Channel” on YouTube.
Mandriva CEO Blasts Ballmer Over Nigeria Deal
AOL Spreads Its Privacy Education Program
AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting.
FTC Talks Online Privacy Today
The two-day town hall meeting about behavioral targeting, announced amid privacy concerns about Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, begins today in Washington DC.
Downtime Can Wreck SEO Efforts
Unreliable access to one’s website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine’s index.
OpenSocial’s First Task: Easy Facebook Import
Unless Google can make it smoother than a bucket of AstroGlide to get all of a person’s Facebook contacts over to its OpenSocial platform, they could find audience-building an uphill battle.
Online Advertised Jobs Decrease
In October there were 4,161,700 online job vacancies advertised, a decrease of 108,300 or -2.5 percent from September, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series out today.
A Guide for Twitter
My friend Jennifer Laycock suggested an article that I am glad I checked out called "Twitter Guide Part #1" written by a blogging newcomer by the name of Caroline Middlebrook.
Will Facebook Get “Friendstered”?
Anyone remember Friendster? It was an early entrant into the social networking scene. If they had done their work right they SHOULD have been a much bigger player than they are now.
Why aren’t they?
Yes, Virginia, Bloggers Can Be Journalists
A recent lawsuit judgment provided evidence for two things: a blogger may qualify as a journalist; and just because you’re a lawyer doesn’t mean you have to act like one. Advice: being mean is no way to get through court.