Buy.com’s Garage Sale Goes To Facebook
Facebook is a popular social network, but could it also be an auction site?
That’s what Buy.com wants to happen, anyway – the company just launched a Garage Sale application within Facebook.
Bubble Popping Time For Online Ads
Ad revenue dropped for every major Internet player but Google in the second quarter of this year.
Whispers of the last dot-com crash have begun to surface again.
Seven Ways To Manage Your Wiki-Rep
Because of its high ranking in the search engine results, Wikipedia has become as necessary a place to be listed as the phone book. But a user-edited source can backfire when unfavorable information pops up in those same results, especially if the information is untrue.
New Search Engine Has Answers
A new search engine has launched called QueryCat that has indexed frequently asked questions (FAQ) from across the web and made them searchable.
Behavioral Targeting Becoming ‘Essential’
Now is the time to do some behavioral targeting before it’s regulated. (Da guvmint is froggy on both sides of this issue, wanting at the same time to limit how much digital information is stored about users and to glean all they can from it for their own surveillance purposes.) Though people tend to be creeped out by how much marketers know about them, if done right, it can be mutually beneficial.
Google Joins Linux-Oriented OIN
Google loves Linux, and as long as you share its enthusiasm, the search giant is willing to give you a hand. That’s the gist, anyway, of a new agreement that makes Google a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN).
Check Your Email For Nuclear Secrets
Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory just can’t seem to keep control of its data, as a consultant dropped an email into the inboxes of board members for a firm charged with keeping such data secure.
Fast Times At Google Search Results
Depending on which index you’re trying to hit, your content could show up in Google’s search results in under two minutes. That appears to be limited to blogs, but the big one’s logging times faster than Domino’s Pizza.
Time Inc. Becoming More Social
Time Inc. says it has plans to add social networking to its Web sites that have off line magazines in the next six months.
Google Street View Expands To Four New Cities
Four more cities are now part of Google’s Street View program: Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, and Houston. As for when – or where – the next update will be, there’s still no word.