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Google Testing Privacy-Enhanced Ad Serving
New privacy practices announced by Google will get a workout in a test of third-party ad serving technology.
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Perfect 10 Tries Again, This Time With MSN
Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said that lawsuits were just part of doing business today. According to Perfect 10 Magazine, lawsuits are the only things that will save them, and have added Microsoft as the most recent defendant.
Linkedin Calls Customer Delusional
It's fun being called delusional by customer service. Today, LinkedIn is trying to make me feel like I'm in that Jodie Foster movie Flightplan where she claims her daughter was kidnapped while on an airplane and everyone else thinks she's nuts. The movie wasn't supposed to be very good (it scored 38% on the Tomatometer), and I'm not sure this blog post will be any…
Yahoo Executive Wins Innovation Award
Yahoo’s got some pretty bright people in its employ, and one of them - Dr. Usama Fayyad - has just been awarded the 2007 Innovation Award by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). And yes, that’s the same ACM that gives the Turing Award.
Firefox Needs To Go To School
Retention rates for usage of the Firefox browser have caused concern for the Mozilla Foundation. They're brainstorming ways of improving that rate. We've got a suggestion for them.
Facebook Success Doesn’t Equal LinkedIn Death
I don't know if it's a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all…
