Yahoo Image Search Incorporates Flickr Photos
Flickr is owned by Yahoo, and now the two operations are closer than ever- photos from Flickr have been integrated into Yahoo Image Search.
Last.fm’s Non-Silence
Although I hate to jump on the whole “Day The Music Died” thing — which I think is a little over the top — I find it interesting that while a whole bunch of Web radio companies, including Yahoo Music and Pandora, are turning off their streams in order to protest the increase in licensing fees for Web broadcasting, Last.fm has decided not to, which has caused some consternation in the blogosphere, including this post at TechCrunch by Duncan Riley.
Facebook, Friendster Signal Changing Tide
The world of social networking is changing, but don’t worry, it’s not permanent. It’s more of a tide than anything that reaches and recedes from all things. MySpace is changing, Facebook is catching, and Friendster is resurrected.
Friendster Coming Back? Puh-leeze
Matt Marshall over at Venture Beat has a post up about Friendster with a “returning from the dead” kind of vibe: Matt points out that the site — which is kind of the poster boy for early social-networking success, followed by equally rapid failure — has had what he calls a “massive” 40-per-cent jump in page views in May, to 9 billion (Facebook gets about 11 billion a month).
MySpace is Las Vegas, Facebook is IKEA
Danah Boyd, a sociologist and researcher in the U.S. who specializes in youth culture and online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, has posted a draft version of a new paper she is writing on what might loosely be referred to as “class divisions” between the two popular social networking sites. Although she says that the differences between the two audiences are not strictly class-based, there appears to be a clear difference between teens who gravitate to one versus the other.
Fred Thompson Gets All The Media
Potential Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has a website that should be a model for anyone aspiring to political office.
Google Named Top Mobile Web Destination
When rankings are published, and Google is involved, the Mountain View-based company usually wins. This time is no different, and M:Metrics has crowned Google the “top mobile web destination for smartphone users.”
Blogging, Payment, Incentives & Disclosure
Meg has opened up a discussion on the growing trend for bloggers in Australia to receive pitches from companies seeking to form relations with bloggers and use their blogs as a vehicle for product promotion.
Digg Censoring News About AOL?
The revamp of AOL News today is quite significant, and Reuters being first to break the news is a trusted source of information.
I thought it was strange that the story hadn’t been submitted to Digg, because it was already appearing on Megite.
eBay’s “Experiment” with Google AdWords
eBay is back advertising on Google’s AdWords network, after completing what it called a planned “experiment” to go one week without relying on Google. (In case you need a refresher,