You have to give Facebook credit. They get in the news more a lot. Maybe it’s investment. Maybe it’s a look at their numbers. Maybe it’s someone on the executive team has a hang nail. You name it they are there.
Google Announces Winners Of Website Workout Contest
Google’s Website Optimizer works, and the company really, really wants you to know it. The winners of the Google Website Workout contest – which challenged businesses to use the tool and improve their conversion rates – have been announced in just about every place possible, giving both them and Website Optimizer all sorts of publicity.
MySpace Announces Decison08 Contest Winners
MySpace and NBC have announced the winners of the Decsion08 Convention contest for citizen journalists.Close to 50,000 MySpace users cast votes and selected Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley to act as citizen journalists at the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions.
Hitwise: Google, Ask October’s Winners
A new report from Hitwise is here, and the short version is as follows: Google wins. The long version includes a few other things of interest, though, including a small gain on Ask’s part.
Google Picks Winners In Campus-Building Contest
Google likes young people, and young people like Google; the company reports that its “Build Your Campus in 3D Competition” received around 4,000 entries. Seven winning teams have now been selected.
Google Ranks Well Among Webware 100 Winners
The top 100 Webware sites have been announced, and Google’s name came up eleven times. From there, things began to resemble the search engine market: Yahoo was referenced on seven occasions, but Ask’s logo made just one appearance.
Google, Facebook Emerge As Winners In Britain
In some markets, Google is getting trounced. Take China and South Korea, for instance: the big guy just can’t win. In other regions, Google continues to reign supreme, and the latest numbers from comScore confirm that Britain is willing to crown Google as king of the search engines. Social networks also fared well in the UK.
Eight Internet Winners In 2006
The year 2006 was a major year for all things Internet related. In fact, it might remembered as the year the Internet exploded. Record broadband adoption, major government attention, and the advent of video and social media made it, to borrow from VH1, the Internet’s best year ever.
Turkey Day Smoke Clears, Winners Emerge
After all is clicked and bought, Thanksgiving weekend numbers are in with clear retail sector winners. While Best Buy, eBay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon (the four horsemen?) are directing all the Web traffic, it is still unclear which day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, pulls in the most shoppers.
List Of Winners From The Vloggies
OK, I have a complete list of winners from the Vloggies up now – the big winners was Alive in Baghdad (they got the only standing ovation of the evening).