Dept. of Justice Comes Down on Net Neutrality
Forget pipes—the Internet is all about postage and packages now. Just ask the U.S. Department of Justice. For some reason, they seem to think that the fact that the USPS “allows consumers to send packages with a variety of different delivery guarantees and speeds, from bulk mail to overnight delivery” means that the US government cannot legislate or enforce net neutrality.
Change Huddle Line-up
X Change is getting close, and I just wanted to post an update with some final speaker additions and I thought I’d also include the Huddle line-up.
We’ve rounded off the speaker list with some great final additions. Since my last post on X Change, we added Rand Schulman of Unica, Anil Batra (formerly of Zaaz) now of ZeroDash1, Clint Ivy from Visual Sciences and Judah Phillips from Reed.
Danah Confused By Facebook’s Fans
Danah Boyd writes that she’s she is “utterly confused by the ways in which the tech industry fetishizes Facebook”.
She asks some good questions and makes some good points. Lets go through them. My answers in italics.
Google Checkout Lost Tracking Data
Google has begun to notify merchants using Google Checkout that Google Checkout pixel tracking was temporarily disabled from July 10 to July 18 due to an issue associated with system maintenance earlier in the month. Pixel tracking allows internet retailers to send Google Checkout conversion data to third parties. While disabled, the feature was unable to report conversions. Many online merchants have worked hard to integrate Google Checkout data with comparison shopping engines, affiliate networks, analytics vendors, third party bid management firms and others.
Netscape, We Hardly Knew Ye
Netscape is backing off their “social experiment.” On the Netscape blog yesterday, they announced:
Visitors to Netscape.com will see a more traditional news experience very soon. Don’t worry, the social news site isn’t going away! We will keep you updated on where you will be able to find the social news site as we get closer to making the switch.
Interview with the Link Guru
While being much less self promotional than others in the same field, Debra Mastaler is nonetheless one of the most well known and creative link builders in the industry. I have wanted to interview her for a long time since she has a unique way of working but she’s hard to pin down and not very good about returning interview questions…
How long have you been doing link building? What did you do before link building?
MTV To Launch Two Dozen Sites
MTV Networks (MTVN) announced today the development of two dozen targeted Web sites that will allow users to have better access to their favorite music, entertainment and pop culture content.
Google’s Game-Related Shame Deepens
A few weeks ago, we were able to run the headline “Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games.” Consider this a follow-up, only, to Mountain View’s dismay, you can substitute “Facebook” for “Yahoo” and leave everything else the same.
Yahoo Local Swamped With Mapspam?
As time goes by, we’re more and more likely to turn to online resources instead of paper phonebooks. The reliability of those resources has come into question, however, after the discovery of some florist-related mapspam on Yahoo Local.
Netrank To Manage Anglian’s SEO
After watching “This Old House” and “The New Yankee Workshop” for a couple of seasons, I’ve developed a tremendous amount of respect for handy people. That makes me inclined to like Netrank, too, since Anglian Home Improvements just selected the company to handle its SEO.