AT&T, Verizon Oppose Google Over Airwaves
Google’s used to arguing with Microsoft, and the Mountain View-based company has had many dustups with Yahoo. Now AT&T and Verizon have stepped in, however, and are opposing Google’s plans for the airwaves.
SMX: Personalized Search – Fear or Not?
Despite the session’s title, the Q&A quickly devolved into less of a discussion of “Fear or Not” and more into “Why did you do this to us, Google?!” (Followed closely by the response, “You’re not normal. Er, a regular user.”)
Microsoft: What Google Killer?
Microsoft doesn’t have a Google-killer, and that’s pretty much it. At least, that’s how it sounds from a somewhat flippant Satya Nadella, Mr. Softy’s newest head of search and search advertising.
“Microsoft: What Google Killer?”
The World Thinks Google’s Big Brother
There’s a lot of buzzing in the blogosphere right now (you can read Jordan’s coverage here), as it appears Google is under fire again for its privacy policies. AP reports that London-based Privacy International has issued a study of 23 internet companies, with Google coming out dead-last. In fact no other company studied, received the same low rating.
Google Almost “Endemic Threat to Privacy”
Privacy International chose to label Google as with the worst privacy rating of any of the twenty-three companies they examined in their report on privacy for Internet service companies.
I think that at least some of the reasoning behind PI’s rating is found in their statement:
Microsoft’s Silverlight A Menace To YouTube?
Soapbox represented Microsoft’s attempt kill YouTube. It failed. Actually, since Soapbox was pulled off the market, then reintroduced, you could say that it failed twice. In any event, Microsoft may now take another shot at YouTube, and this time the company’s hopes rest with Silverlight.
New RSS Reader by Apple for Windows
You’ve used Google Reader and BlogLines, but have you used Safari? Safari has been my RSS Reader (and browser) of choice ever since its debut years ago, but now its available for Windows as well! It’s not a web-based reader like others, but you can read, search, and sort all of your RSS feeds offline as well as online. Its subtle number count in your bookmark bar keeps you well informed when new content opens up.
Editor Goes With A Flickr, Pin-up Girl Nips ‘Em
There are two Flickr tales today so you know what that means: combo article! Woo hoo! A veteran newspaperman is out of a job, announcing his plight via the very medium that pulled the rug out, and an online pin-up girl has her account reinstated after a nasty spat over how much breast, exactly, makes a photo obscene.
“Editor Goes With A Flickr, Pin-up Girl Nips ‘Em”
Michigan Schools Get Google Apps For Education
Google occasionally works out deals with individual universities, but it appears that the search engine company is starting to think big. Not Texas-big, perhaps, but Michigan-big. It’s in this latter state that Google intends to roll out Google Apps for Education.
Keep WordPress From Overwriting .htaccess Rules
For as long As I care to remember I’ve been having issues with my Wordpress .htaccess file.
.htaccess file is a small Apache file that lets you do all sorts of funky things with requests made to your server. It’s also one of SEO’s best tools. I have a lot of custom 301 redirects set up, including a redirect which makes my site available only via the www subdomain.