Social Networking Soars Around The World
Global usage of social networking sites increased dramatically year over year as tens of millions of people visited MySpace, Facebook, and similar services.
eBay Evades ‘Buy it Now’ Injunction
A federal court turned down a request from patent-holder MercExchange to hit eBay with an injunction that would stop the site from offering ‘Buy it Now’ as a purchase option.
FCC Calls Google’s Bluff
If Google wants to see the winner of the 700MHz spectrum adhere to its four proposed openness conditions, Google will have to push its money into the pot. That isn’t going to happen.
Hotswap Gets Funding From Wozniak
Hotswap says that “seeing is believing,” and, to a point, I agree; Hotswap lets people post videos to sell their used cars, which is far better than a picture or 15-word newspaper blurb. Now, with the support of Steve Wozniak, the site may be in a good position to take off.
Google Directs Traffic To Amazon UK
Amazon UK is a giant in its own right, but it turns out that the retailer owes a good portion of its traffic (around 25 percent) to Google. And with one good deed deserving another, Amazon sends around ten percent of its visitors straight back to the search engine.
Turning Content Into a Valuable Keyword List
One of the comments on the article I wrote for Wordtracker mentioned WordsFinder, which allows you to create a list of keywords from a piece of content. Their tool uses the Yahoo! Term Extraction Tool, and also provides a few additional keywords next to the results.
Three other easy ways to get similar information are
Yahoo Trip Planner Shows Up In The UK
For over a year, Yahoo’s Trip Planner has been available in the US; now this tool has finally found its way into Ireland and the UK. This didn’t exactly occur on schedule, but as a “Ghostbusters” character said when the Titanic pulled into dock, “better late than never.”
Free Microsoft Works May Take On Google
Time and time again, Google has claimed that its various products and services are not intended to compete with Microsoft Office. That’s doubtful, but in any event, Microsoft seems prepared to for the clash – a vice president has indicated that the next version of Microsoft Works will be free and ad-supported.
eBay Popular In The South
Scarborough Research, a consumer research firm has released a report that finds that eBay is popular in the South.
A Mozilla Divorce
The Mozilla Corporation CEO has announced on her BLOG that Mozilla Thunderbird will be split into a "new, separate organizational setting". The details of which have not been decided on yet, although she has outlined three different options. One thing is a fact strategically this bodes well for both Firefox and Thunderbird projects.