DOJ Likes Packet Sniffing, Votes For AT&T
Your first thought may be: What’s the Department of Justice got to do with Net Neutrality? Well, essentially nothing at this point, except that the FCC asked the Antitrust Division for its opinion. The Commission could have saved some time by just jotting down what AT&T said.
Is Google Hitting Directory Links?
Algorithmic flux or selective penalization? Nobody’s sure and nobody that can answer is talking so far, but paid link directories have been plummeting in Google search results. Many are not ranking for their own business name, according to reports, even though webmasters have not received penalty notices.
Google Mops Up Online Video Market
Another comparison, another win for Google. In this case, the competition centers on online video, and in terms of market share (as determined by the number of visits), the search giant is 42 percent ahead of its nearest rival.
Obama Leading All Candidates Online
Illinois Senator Barack Obama is attracting more visitors to his campaign Web site than any of the other presidential candidates according to the Nielsen Company.
Superpages Serves Up BlackBerry Application
We all know that BlackBerry users can become just a tad bit absorbed in their devices, but that trait aside, they’ll now have less of an excuse for being late – Superpages.com just launched a local mobile application specifically for the BlackBerry.
Yahoo Takes Panama To Taiwan
Sponsored searches in Taiwan may have just gotten a bit better – Yahoo introduced the upgrade known as Panama. Unfortunately, this will once again lead us towards something resembling a geographical “Who’s on First?” routine.
Irish Pix.ie Excels At Photo Sharing
Pix.ie is a photo-sharing site that’s based in, and generally targeted at, Ireland. But if you’re not Irish, it’s still worth a look – among other advantages, the beta version of Pix.ie has a monthly upload limit that’s five times larger than what Flickr offers.
(non)Value of Open Communities
Many web companies significantly profit from the appearance that they are open, but anything of value eventually needs to have some limitations placed on it. In spite of no longer having MovableType installed on this server, the mt-comments file is one of my most requested files. Registration moves you away from The Tragedy of the Commons to something more sustainable.
Can You Trust Wikipedia?
Trust – reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
How confident are you that a particular Wikipedia page has reliable information? How sure are you in the ability of all the people who may have edited that page? Thanks to Luca de Alfaro and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz you may soon be able to know which parts of a given Wikipedia page you can and can’t trust.
Squidoo Builds People Search SquidWho
Squidoo has launched a new portal called SquidWho