A 4-1 vote by the Federal Trade Commission wraps up its eight-month investigation of antitrust concerns over Google’s purchase of DoubleClick and approves the acquisition.
Life Without Google Gets Thumbs Up
It’s common knowledge that quitting smoking is hard, and I’ve even known a couple people who had a tough time cutting back their caffeine intake. But James Thomas did the unthinkable: he gave up Google.
Goodman Gives Thumbs Up for Blogger Code
When Jimmy Wales and Tim O’Reilly get on the front page of the New York Times… it’s news… to everyone else. There’s been an outpouring of feedback on the proposal for a blogger code of conduct in the wake of rounds of blogger nastiness.
WSJ Gives Thumbs Up to Link Baiting
Hat’s off to Kelly Spors for helping to keep WSJ readers up to date on the latest marketing buzz. In today’s weekly roundup of news, she explains the art of link baiting…
Here’s a new catchphrase in search-engine optimization these days: Link baiting.
Thumbs Down on Web 2.0 Conference
GigaOm weighs in with a mostly-thumbs-down on the Web 2.0 conference; seems the cause for complaint was a lot of excessive caution and cynicism, fueled by money.
Digg Gives Thumbs Up To Comments
An updated comment system for the Digg user-contributed news site offers several new features, including ratings for comments and a three-minute window to edit the comments one makes on a story.
Google Loses Thumbs To Perfect 10
Google suffered a setback in court last Friday as US District Judge Howard Matz ruled that thumbnail displays retrieved by the company’s image search feature were a likely violation of copyright law. Links to third party sites and the practice of “framing” the image above those sites, however, were not considered to be in violation.
Blogs, Podcast, and Vlogs: Thumbs up or Down?
Last night Yahoo had a mixer at Caesar’s club, Pure. Of course, Rich and I attended solely out of our journalistic sense of duty.
The “All Thumbs” Approach to Testing AdWords Products
In continuation of our series of articles on improving your Google AdWords campaigns, we look at creating test campaigns.