Update: In an interesting turn to this story, the New York Times has eliminated 993,000 article pages as it rolls International Herald Tribune (IHT) into the NYT site. Instead of redirecting the articles to the same article on NYT, they all simply go now to one landing page.
Karaoke Gets the Internet Radio Treatment
Internet radio sites aren’t the only ones facing recording industry woes. Even Karaoke performances are coming under fire. Users of "The Sims On Stage" (a site owned by Electronic Arts) were recently greeted with the following message:
GoDaddy Auction VP Gets Slashdot Treatment
There’s nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they’ve banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy. And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away. What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com’s domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum member going by Stevie read this way:
Google Gives Link Building The Silent Treatment
When the Google Analytics team provided a pretty narrow definition of search engine optimization, the SEO gurus pricked up their ears. While their objections may seem pedantic in a way, the point is duly noted that one important element was left out of said definition: link building. The focus of Laura Melahn and Jon Stona’s post was actually website optimization, a task distinctly different from SEO. In order to proceed, Melahn and Stona defined SEO this way:
PA Gets Special Treatment From Google Earth
Google has a lot of fans, and has made friends with any number of businesses. Now the company has befriended the state of Pennsylvania. The “Google Earth geospatial image browser” is set to launch “on the official tourism website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, VisitPA.com.”
Fair Treatment is Good Business
Business ethics deserve much more attention than they usually receive in operating a company.
Old World Parasites Get New World Treatment
One of the banes of modern medicine is that if there’s no money in the treatment, then there is no treatment. The plight of erectile dysfunction in the industrialized world takes precedent over African sleeping sickness. With any luck, in light of recent events, times they may be a-changing.
Microsoft To Give RIM The Netscape Treatment
Steve Ballmer announces new features for Windows Mobile 5.0 that will support wireless options in Exchange Server 2003 SP2.
BusinessWeek Gives Blogs the Cover Treatment
Whew, relief. I have been dying to talk about this for months. BusinessWeek this week has a cover story on blogs.
Health Canada Approves Cannabis MS Treatment
Health Canada has approved Sativex (Cannabis sativa L. extract) a new drug developed as adjunctive treatment for the symptomatic relief of neuropathic pain in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS).