The majority (86%) of MySpace users 18 and over, or who will be 18 by November 4,2008, say they are "Extremely Likely" or "Likely" to vote in the 2008 presidential election, according to MySpace’s first "Impact Presidential Poll."
Microsoft Issues Free Enterprise Search Challenge
Search Server 2008 Express arrived as a free download from Microsoft, which launched the release candidate during a California conference.
Digg, Pownce Have Gender Issues
A seemingly angry post on Digg by Pownce developer Leah Culver about a duplicate feature in Digg’s new profiles, and a peek at that feature, made us wonder about the fuss.
Facebook Islam Row Highlights Free Speech Issues
Historically, in the brick-and-mortar world, we’ve had courts to settle disputes. Online, there are terms of service agreements and invisible judges determining, usually at the behest of the loudest and largest mob, who is guilty of crossing the line between conscious protest and hate speech.
Search Isn’t Finding Candidate Stands On Issues
Though it is estimated 42 percent of voters use the Internet to find information about Presidential candidates, those voters are not being served as well as they could be.
Google Expands On Net Neutrality Issues
Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Google has put together a three-part blog post outlining Google’s approach to Net Neutrality, what the company feels is okay for broadband providers to do, what’s not okay, and where they have misled the public.
Key Issues in Web Anaytics Implementation and Rollout
I spent most of the last two weeks on the road – teaching down in San Diego at the WebSideStory DMU and manning a booth at the Omniture Summit. Going out and talking to so many people is always interesting (if a bit daunting for an essentially shy guy) – and if you take out the travel parts it was all pretty enjoyable.
Fixing Duplicate Content Issues
Not all webmasters are aware that search engines view each URL as a different page, even it has the same content or is different from the other URL by ending with a slash or if it preceeded by a www or not. To serve only one version of the page to get the deserved traffic, you’ll need to remember a couple of things about fixing URL issues.
Known Issues w/ Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe released the Flash Player 9 for Linux 2 days ago. Here are the list of known issues:
Got Issues? Yahoo Wants The Video
Yahoo and the Film Your Issue website are jointly promoting the “Issue Film” competition to highlight the concerns of young adults over topical issues.