England Sees Spike In Baby Girl Name Searches
Either England is about to have a spike in female births, or nobody knows what to name a girl over there. While searches for "baby girls names" spiked by 258 percent this year, "baby boy names" searches jumped by just 84 percent.
How To Deal With Image Hotlinkers
Internet bandwidth can be a scarce commodity in the midst of a product launch, so “hotlinking” or having someone post one of your images, audio or video from their website, blog or forum can reduce your total available Internet bandwidth. Here are a couple of fixes for this issue.
Wis.dm Wins $5 Million In Funding
I considered opening this article with a yes or no question, but the idea didn’t appeal to me all that much. Still, if you’d like to pose – or answer – such questions, North Bridge Venture Partners just contributed somewhat less than $5 million to a site that’ll allow you the opportunity: Wis.dm.
Users Online Video Preferences
Sixty-two percent of U.S. consumers have viewed video online according to a new study by Advertising. com.
NYT Archives Causing Google Reputation Nightmares
It seems the New York Times search engine optimization efforts are working well–maybe a little too well for some.
Now that more of the NYT’s archives are appearing in Google’s search results, many individuals are finding their past is catching up with them. Worse, it’s the NYT’s version of their past that contains misinformation.
Hackers Remind That iPhone Is Still MyPhone
People have this silly notion that when they buy something, it belongs to them and they can do what they want with it. Silly people. Apple’s been relatively quiet about threats to sell software and tools to unlock the iPhone, and AT&T hasn’t made any public statements, but a few lawyer warning shots have been fired in private.
Google Delves Into Volcanoes, Earthquakes
The last post on the Official Google CPG Blog provides a “Back to School Recap.” The Official Google Data APIs Blog informs readers about “Calendar Gadgets via Gdata.” And that’s all fine and well. But over at the Google LatLong Blog, they’re keeping us clear of lava flows.
Court Says Site Not Liable For Age Liars
Dateline NBC wasn’t involved in this one, and whether or not the plaintiff in the lawsuit against SexSearch.com was aware once he saw her at her house that she was only 14 is irrelevant. He’s already been convicted on those charges.
CBSNews.com Partners With Washingtonpost.com
CBSNews.com and the washingtonpost.com have formed a content-sharing partnership for coverage of the 2008 Presidential campaigns.
Google Facebook App Off To Problematic Start
Not long after Facebook applications were introduced, I became tired of them. Some were good, but most were bad, and it seemed like every company I’d never heard of was determined to create one. There’s a new app that’s worth noting, however, and it was released by none other than Google.