Cisco Chides Google Over FCC Proposal
Not that there’s a potential conflict of interest or anything, but Cisco, or at least Mary Brown, Cisco’s Director of Technology and Spectrum Policy, sounds insulted by Google’s attempt to strong arm the FCC into imposing a certain set of rules on the upcoming spectrum auction.
Google Finance For Canada Plays Peek-a-boo
Google Finance Canada is coming! Actually, an announcement may have stated that it was already here, but the Official Google Blog has been updated to say, “Oops. We hit the button too soon. Watch for news about Google Finance in Canada next Tuesday.”
Google Extends Opt-Out Policy To CPA Testing
Google’s still testing the waters of its cost-per-action ad model, which charges advertisers only when a sale is made or a lead form is filled out. But as one publisher notes, the AdSense team is inserting CPA ads onto his blog, whether he wants them there or not.
Republicans Urged To Attend YouTube Debate
Two well known conservative bloggers have started a petition on their new Web site save thedeabte.com to urge Republican presidential candidates to participate in the YouTube debate scheduled for September 17 in Florida.
Election 2.0 – Predictions on Media, Image & Campaigns
Forget the CNN/YouTube debates (which was only watched by 2.6 million viewers anyway). The real milestone of new media changing the face of politics has already happened. We are deep in an historic shift in the way elections are run, driven entirely by advancements in sharing information. But to understand where we are, we have to take a look at how we got here.
HBO To Close Comedy Site
HBO comedy Web site "This Just In" will be closing down at the end of August, numerous sources are reporting.
iCrossing Receives $62 Million In Funding
Companies routinely receive three, five, or even ten million dollars in various funding rounds; reporting on it kind of dulls you to those huge amounts. But iCrossing, a “global digital marketing company,” has just received $62 million, and that’s definitely worth a closer look.
Yahoo, Capital One Release “Saving Zone”
I liked Capital One’s “barbarian” commercials, and for the foreseeable future, that’s what’ll come to mind whenever I think of the company. But a new association has taken place, as well, because Yahoo and Capital One have teamed up to create the “Capital One Saving Zone.”
Google Flexes Robots Exclusion Protocol
Two new features added to the protocol will help webmasters govern when an item should stop showing up in Google’s web search, as well as providing some control over the indexing of other data types.
Microsoft Looks Into The Cloud
The favorite of Googlite war cry formats has been to pair up a Microsoft product with the word "killer": Windows-killer; Office-killer; [Insert product here]-killer. Google’s free, advertising-based software-as-a-service model is what has made Google, in theory at least, Microsoft’s most intense new challenger.