"Remember the poor, it costs nothing" — Josh Billings…
Hitwise Issues Online Retail Warning
Common sense says that online retailers are in a better position than their brick and mortar counterparts; consumers will be able save time, gas, and possibly the money that would go towards sales taxes by just shopping from home this season. Still, according to a new Hitwise report, the winter is shaping up to be pretty harsh.
Gmail, Google Apps Issues Resolved
A game of word association would have to go on for quite some time before most people would put "Google Apps" and "Gmail" together with "outage." The two services recently took a partial tumble, though, and the experience has left some of the affected users less than happy.
Got Crawl Issues? Live Search Can Help
Microsoft launched its first major update to Live Search Webmaster Tools since November, adding crawl issue feedback, backlink data, improved filtering, and the ability to export data in CSV format to Excel for offline analysis. Update: Five minutes after publishing, the Live Search Webmaster Team let us know they were delayed a little, and that the update should go live at 5:00 EDT.
Facebook Blocking Google’s Friend Connect For Privacy Issues
My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect.
Deep Linking Issues Return As Music Lawsuit Hits Baidu, Sohu
Chinese search engines Baidu and Sohu face millions in penalties as Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music demand satisfaction over links to songs controlled by the labels.
IOC Issues New Internet Rules
The International Olympic Committee has issued updated rules for new media covering the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.The rules will allow media organizations to use their own Web sites to host written and photographic coverage of the games if it is for normal journalistic and editorial use. "The Internet is an important medium for the communication and promotion of sport and the Olympic Movement," the IOC said in the guidelines.
Regulatory Issues Nix Google, Yahoo Deal
Outsourcing paid search to Google sounded like a panacea to some who have followed Yahoo’s travails, but antitrust concerns probably ended that discussion.
Security Issues Discovered at TSA Site
In what should be a warning to travelers and just about everyone on the Internet, a web site built for the TSA has been found to have significant security issues, endangering travelers, as well as the reputat
Microsoft and Yahoo Marketing Issues
Microsoft is spending a lot of money creating useful tools for advertisers, and when you go to their tools page they list contextual ads for "all the data mining". If they would just let me know what that ad placement costs I am betting I would be willing to pay more than that thin arbitrage site pays. But I would pay much less than what it would be worth just to keep their tool pages clean so they can help build market adoption.