AdCenter Needs More Blogging
The user interface and reporting features have been updated on adCenter, but communicating these updates doesn’t seem to be a priority.
Weird Suggestion: Reporters Should Sue Google
One old-media journalist thinks it’s time to unleash a brigade of Louis Vuitton-bearing lawyers on Google to stop them from stealing from newspapers.
Cost Adds Up For Unused Wi-Fi Time
More than half of Wi-Fi hotspot users around the globe are wasting their money according to Trustive’s "WLAN Roaming Research 2007" report.
“Cost Adds Up For Unused Wi-Fi Time”
Google Street View Privacy Concerns Commence
Google saw someone’s cat – and so it begins. Earlier this week, the search engine giant released Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to see things from the perspective of a person driving down a public road. Now privacy concerns are beginning to mount.
Google To Grow In Boston, Chicago
Most Google-related products, services, and announcements come out of Mountain View, but Googlers in Boston and Chicago are now grabbing some headlines of their own; the company’s locations in both cities are primed for some serious growth.
Honeywell Becoming A Social Butterfly
When Honeywell began to try out social bookmarking within its own intranet, the company got some attention for the attempt. When Honeywell established a presence in Second Life, it received the same. But, taken together, these beginnings – and their continued existence – make for an interesting picture.
Google Checkout Migrates To Mobiles
I occasionally use my cell phone to talk, and on still rarer occasions, to snap a photo. It mostly serves as a pocket-born paperweight. But for those of you who are a little more in touch with the mobile market, Google has just the thing: Google Checkout for mobile.
The Coming Content Wars
A few days ago, a report showed that Internet advertising was up 35% last year, hitting almost $17 billion. It’s been almost a year since we reported, “Web Advertising Spending Too Low,” and it looks like advertisers are starting to close the gap.
TechMeme: Anti-linking Engine
I’ve noticed this several times and thought I’d bring it up.
TechMeme seems to penalize bloggers who link to other bloggers. Most bloggers believe that a major part of how TechMeme decides which is the most important story is to count links. That isn’t true in following mine, and other people’s results.
I believe there’s a “linking penalty” on TechMeme. At least it seems that way after doing my own link counting.
Let’s say there’s three stories.
Inside Google’s Gears
So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?”
Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too.
Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra?
All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.