The company unveiled a new tool to assist its AdWords advertisers in creating ads destined for the world of newsprint.
Collaborative GMail Promo Gets Around
Here’s the neat part about owning YouTube: you can get people to make your commercials for you a lot cheaper than it costs to pay an advertising agency to do it. The end result for Google is still a pretty cool commercial though, the collaborate effort of about 1,100 GMail fans.
Social Networking Soars Around The World
Global usage of social networking sites increased dramatically year over year as tens of millions of people visited MySpace, Facebook, and similar services.
Joey Hops Around Mozilla Labs
A simpler way to store web content for later retrieval on a mobile device is in the works at the Mozilla Foundation.
Talking Around the Mobile Web
Although many have cell phones and other mobile devices that would permit mobile surfing, few do.
Part of this is explained by the poor appearance of many websites as seen through a mobile device
Given the push to have more mobile-friendly websites, hopefully this will change.
The dotMobi community is providing resources and we now have a dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide.
Yahoo Maps Around Traffic Nightmare
The MacArthur Maze closure in the San Francisco Bay Area has spurred Yahoo to meet the demand for alternate routes by quickly updating their Maps product.
Around the SEM World – Personalized Search
"Around the SEM World" is a new monthly series I am starting in which I will ask professionals around the SEM Industry their thoughts on the hottest topics during the given month.
Baidu’s Fortunes Go Up, Down, All Around
It’s best when an article has a clear direction and a smooth flow. Prepare for some turns and bumps, though, because Baidu just isn’t cooperating in this matter. The Chinese search engine company is doing well or poorly, depending on what sort of timeframe you choose, and although Baidu is still beating Google (by quite a lot), it appears that the margin is shrinking.
Rumors Swirling Around Apple’s Fairplay DRM
Tech.co.uk is reporting that Apple will announce this week that it is opening up it’s Fairplay DRM so that it may be licensed by device manufacturers who are members of the “Made for iPod” group of manufacturers.
Yahoo Gets Around, A Lot, With Go 2.0
Yahoo! announced a flurry of new partnerships today as part of a global launch of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 (beta). The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company teamed up with Motorola, Nokia, Opera, Research In Motion, Samsung, and 3 Group, hoping to maximize exposure of the new platform and Yahoo!’s new oneSearch mobile search engine.