NY Times ‘My Times’ Is Your Times
The ‘My Times’ personalized start page has opened to the website’s readership as developers work on rooting out the remaining bugs in the service.
Yahoo Shortcuts Searchers To Enhancements
Popular searches for consumer electronics, medical information, and NFL players now generate Yahoo Shortcuts in the search engine’s results pages.
Playboy Goes The Facebook Route
Okay. Just to get this out of the way, there’s no nudity at Playboy U. I know that was your first question. No nudity, just like there’s no sex in the champagne room. The other question is, no doubt, "how do I get in?"
Free Broadband Isn’t Really Free
The US broadband situation is so dire that you may not even be able to give away access. Worse, there might be good reason for that. You may not have heard of M2Z Networks, Inc., but 50,000 others have and are pressuring the FCC to approve the company’s offer of free nationwide broadband access.
YouTubers Threaten Revolt! (Again)
One thing you can count on in a user-generated world is passion, and threats to leave because of changes. Another thing you can count on is that they probably don’t mean it, and there’s a good chance their anger’s misplaced.
Yahoo Teachers Shaping Up Nicely
I’ve become convinced that there’s a social network targeted at every race, class, age, and occupation imaginable; for this reason, I’ve also become suspicious of new launches. But Yahoo’s creating a social network for teachers, and the site really appears quite promising.
New Facebook Ads May Make Money, Upset Users
Even as credible rumors of acquisitions and IPOs spread, many onlookers were astonished by the amount of money Facebook seemed to believe its site was worth. Yet Facebook may now introduce an advertising system that would have doubters nodding in agreement.
Shrink Sets Internet Addiction Alert To Orange
If you can’t be home from work for five minutes without checking your email, you may have a problem, and it may be worse than you think, says a Tel Aviv psychiatrist. You could be suffering from Internet addiction disorder, or you may just have nothing better to do.
CafeMom Mops Up $5 Million In Funding
As tradition would have it, Facebook’s for college students and LinkedIn’s for professionals. But what about mothers? Yes, mothers can of course be both college students and professionals, but in any case, there’s CafeMom, and for CafeMom, there’s $5 million – the social networking site just had a successful round of funding.
Social Networks Positive For Job Recruiters
Sixty-eight percent of staffing and recruiting professionals say they use social networks at least occasionally to source candidates, according to an online survey from Bullhorn, "Making the Most of the New Tools: How online resources impact placement ratios, time-to-fill and profitability."