The arms race between Facebook and Twitter or social media supremacy has its good and bad moments. The good is that all of this ‘one-upsmanship’ should eventually lead to better tools for social media users. The bad news is that we have to hear about every time someone at one of these two companies has a thought.
Netflix Opening Up Access
Netflix, the movie rental service that recently hit a milestone of 10 million subscribers is now making deals with movie sites to give users quick access to their Netflix queues from these places.
AOL Opening Up To Third-Party Content
AOL has introduced a new feature on its homepage that allows users to access multiple email services from third parties.The company says it is revamping AOL.com to offer users more choice and customization in an effort to attract more traffic.
Shop.org Summit: Opening Up Your Brand
Well, all that cute Web 2.0 terminology – you know how you guys do, combining two words to make one or leaving vowels out and stuff – is now the sole property of bloggers and developers, because marketers, if you’ll forgive the Kentucky boy in me, done went corporate boardroom on it.
Facebook Opening You To Google
Users of Facebook will have their profiles indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo unless they opt to keep their listings from appearing in search engines.
Opening The Door To Online House Hunting
When it comes to looking for a new place to live more people are turning to online resources to find what they are looking for. In August, 2006 51 percent of all Internet users had taken a virtual tour of real estate property according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
AOL Opening Free 5GB Xdrive Storage
As part of the company’s shift to an audience-supported model, AOL will offer all Internet users 5GB of free online storage through the Xdrive service it purchased in August 2005.
Google Opening Up On Click Fraud
AdWords clients will be able to view information on invalid clicks as detected by Google through an advanced option in an AdWords account; it is Google’s first significant effort to make this information more transparent to its AdWords customers.
ERP Opening To Open Source
One well-known name and one relative newcomer have designs on the enterprise resource-planning world, and will use open source technology to take on the entrenched powers in the industry.
Microsoft Opening Source Code For EU
General counsel Brad Smith announced in Brussels that Microsoft was going all in and calling the EU over their Statement of Objections issued in December 2005.