Unhappy Googlers may soon be supplied with about as many muffin baskets, pats on the back, and intriguing projects as they can handle. Apparently Google’s developing an algorithm to identify which employees are most likely to quit, and it’s acting on the info in an attempt to keep top workers around.
Google, YouTube Developing Video Filter
Google may have found a way to duck the umpteen lawsuits YouTube is facing – the company is developing its very own video identification technology to flag copyrighted content. What’s more, the system will be tested in cooperation with Time Warner and Disney.
Rumor: Viacom Developing Own YouTube
Last week, when Viacom demanded the deletion of some 100,000 videos submitted to YouTube because of copyright infringement, it may have been just the beginning of larger, defensive measures.
Viacom is the media giant that owns cable properties like Comedy Central, MTV, and Spike. Unlike many record labels like Sony, BMG, and Warner, who apparently struck some kind of arrangement with Google, Viacom appears set on absolute control over its content, free promotion or not.
Developing Countries Breeding Grounds for Open Source
Red Herring’s Falguni Bhuta predicts “More (Open Source) momentum in developing countries”:
Developing Your Internal Linking Structure
The core of the Internet is pages with links pointing to and from them. That’s why it is not only important to have something to get links to, but to link from a page.
Developing a Profitable Web 2.0 Project in 24 Hours
It took seven months to get the One Million Masterpiece charity project online. The site is complex and needed the development time, but in the last few days I’ve had a yearning to see if I can still turn around a project in 24 hours.
Developing That Web Style
Cascading Style Sheet standards compliance resided at the base of many complaints about Internet Explorer; its developers have made efforts to follow the standards better with IE 7, and for good reason as CSS can make a web developer’s life easier.
Developing Effective Managers
Effective managers are people who possess great skills. In todays work environment managing a team requires more than just telling others what to do and how to do it.
Developing your Blog Exit Strategy
This is the first part in a series on developing your blog exit strategy.
Microsoft Developing Virtual Wallet
Bill Gates showed off today a virtual wallet, code-named InfoCard, that will allow people to make transactions online without user names or passwords, and thus, without fear of those things being stolen.