ICANN To Address Domain Name Expansion
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened its 29th International Public Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico yesterday.
During the week-long meeting ICANN will address issues like new generic top-level domains, international domain names and how the agency can become more transparent.
Lijit Receives $3.3 Million In Funding
Blog search is getting better – or at least richer – as Lijit Networks just secured $3.3 million in funding.
Yahoo Turns Off The Radio
A Day of Silence has swept across the bandwidth of a number of music webcasting services as they protest new royalty rates that could put them out of business for good.
Google Wants More Oversight For Microsoft
As Microsoft’s time under the watch of antitrust regulators spins to a close, Google has filed a legal request to extend that consent decree.
HouseFront Builds Home Info Via SMS
Texting an address to HouseFront’s messaging service brings back available real estate information to one’s mobile phone.
iPhone Has People Talking
The anticipated launch of the iPhone has received more buzz than any other product announcement this year according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics.
Google: Censorship Is A Trade Barrier
There’s something about this topic that is unsettling – the deal seems nearly devilish, beneficial and somewhat horrifying at the same time. Google’s latest plea to the US and EU governments to help fight censorship centers on the economics, not the political morality, of censorship.
Microsoft, Houghton Mifflin Help Kids
When you read about publishers on Murdok, it tends to be because Google’s doing something with them. This time, however, Houghton Mifflin is in the news, and it’s Microsoft, not Google, with which the company has been associated.
comScore Examines Video-Sharing Sites
comScore Video Metrix has released a study that looks at six video sharing sites that did not make comScore’s ranking of the top 10 U.S. video properties for the month of April.
User Reviews’ Effects On Sales And Search Results
To a business, user reviews can be a valuable asset. They can also be quite a risk – what if the reviewers don’t like your products or services? Yet, as usual, knowledge is power (unless you know that you’re screwed), and so here are four things to realize when it comes to user reviews.