Online advertising contributes $300 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
The ad supported Internet accounts for 2.1 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic product. It directly employs more than 1.2 million Americans with above-average wages in jobs that did not exist two decades ago, and another 1.9 million people work to support those with Internet-related jobs.
Google, Intel Contribute To Turing Award
The recipient of this year’s Turing Award will also get $250,000, thanks to Google and Intel. And thanks to the recipient’s own genius and “contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community,” of course.
Wikipedia SEO: Don’t Spam – Contribute
Because Wikipedia entries routinely show up in the top 5 search engine results at Google, some black hat SEO’s (and a few clueless beginners) realized the value of a link from the online encyclopedia and began link spamming blatantly. So recently Wikipedia posted the "nofollow" tag to all outbound links, purportedly to stop SEO Spam by reducing the value of those outbound links.
Adobe Includes Drag and Drop Flash Support in New Contribute Release
Entry-level and code-challenged webmasters now have a whole new set of tools to play with in the latest release of Adobe’s web publishing product. Contribute 4 now boasts improved blog publishing capability and unified web publishing along with support for Flash video.
Search Engines Contribute High Levels of Holiday Shopping Referrals
While visits to shopping sites are claiming a record share of total holiday season Web visits, search engines are continuing to contribute high levels of shopping referrals.
Your PC can Contribute with Google Compute
Have you heard of the SETI Project?
JBoss Joins Eclipse Foundation to Contribute to J2EE Standard Tools Project
Two of the Most Successful Open Source Communities Collaborate to Better Integrate J2EE Development Tools and Middleware.