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The
MySpace Mirage
With 50 million registered users, MySpace should be one of the most powerful online
communities on the Internet; but many of those users register and depart, to never
be seen again.
Google
Finance Possibly Sighted
Globe-trotting Search Engine Journal editor Loren Baker has noted the appearance
of queries from google.com/finance in his site's logfiles.
Google
Shows Mac Users The Widget Love
Three Dashboard Widgets from the talented engineers at Google offer Mac users
some extra Google functionality in OS X. Google has spent a lot of time and effort
developing products for the Windows platform.
Yahoo
Music Exec Is No DRM Fan
Yahoo Music VP and general manager Dave Goldberg suggested to attendees at the
Music 2.0 conference that music labels should try selling their songs online without
the encumbrance of copy protection schemes.
Yahoo
Ending Competitor Trademark Bids
As of March 1st, Yahoo Search Marketing will change its policy regarding bids
for trademarks by competitive advertisers. After watching Mazda hijack the "Google
Pontiac" campaign by purchasing Pontiac...
Greenspan
Still Angry Over MySpace Deal
Ex-Intermix CEO Brad Greenspan still hasn't gotten over the sale of his former
company, the parent firm of MySpace, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Yahoo
Search Opens Up Wikipedia
Yahoo's work with Wikipedia takes another step with Yahoo Search; queries that
return Wikipedia entries along with other search results will have additional
direct links to Wikipedia resources.
Find
A Soprano On Google Maps And Whack’im
HBO is planning to promote the new season of "Sopranos" by using Google Maps.
Time Warner's cable network plans to form interactive maps of New Jersey to keep
track of the characters and where events occur, as well as a way to help viewers
remember old storylines.
ITunes
Hits One Billion Downloads
Michigan resident Alex Ostrovsky downloaded the one billionth song from Apple's
iTunes Music Store just past midnight Thursday. In doing so, Ostrovsky rocked
his way into a lot of loot.
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The plans by Yahoo and AOL to utilize the services of email certification firm
Goodmail have brought together two bitter political rivals to denounce the service.
Editor's Note: Will Google Pages convince you to publish a
site? Is it a nice take on an old idea, or a rehash of other services? Discuss
it at WebProWorld.
RightMarch and MoveOn hold diametrically opposite positions in the political spectrum. To bring these two rival political action committees to a common ground usually requires a staggeringly horrifying event taking place, like the launch of New Coke.
This time, it's the proposed fees for delivering bulk email to opt-in recipients that MoveOn and RightMarch find difficult to swallow. Computerworld reported how a new coalition sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation will bring the two together along with other interested groups.
This coalition opposes the prospect of being forced to pay for unhindered delivery of its messages to subscribers. The article noted how senders in the program would have to pay one-quarter of a cent to one cent in exchange for "preferential treatment" of their messages.
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The article cited comments from an EFF officer on the issue:
"We have been putting together a rather large coalition of groups from across the spectrum," said Cindy Cohn, legal director with the EFF. "They are mainly nonprofit or political groups or small business concerns... They're all people who can't afford to pay to get their message across."
"I think they need to abandon this plan," said Cohn. "The ISPs' view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong... It's not the ISP's to sell."
Billionaire George Soros backs MoveOn, while RightMarch president William Green
noted in the report how how RightMarch spends "thousands of dollars a month on
e-mail delivery services," so neither group is exactly hurting for money.
Both AOL and Yahoo could launch Goodmail's CertifiedEmail service in the spring. The article quoted AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham in reporting AOL will begin using CertifiedEmail in 30 days. Yahoo's launch would come after that, according to Goodmail.
Jason Lee Miller covered the AOL-Goodmail issue in early February; you can read about that here.
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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Google: Cell Phones Better Choice For Porn
 By
Jason Lee Miller
The young executive sits with his back against the terminal wall and flips open
his mobile phone. Using Google's Mobile Search, he begins sifting through an array
of tawdry "religious experiences" and nobody's the wiser.
Mr. Yuppie, like many others, chooses his mobile over his PC to seek out pornography,
and Google has the numbers to prove it.
As relayed at NewScientist.com, Googlers Maryan Kamvar and Shumeet Baluja found in batch of 1 million searches queries that adult material made up one in five mobile searches.
A figure like 20 percent is far above that of desktop computers, where only 8.5
percent of searches navigate through the herds of two-backed beasts. There's not
a lot of PDA (public displays of affection) on PDAs, either. A relative few mix
business and pleasure as just 5 percent of searches on PDA devices were for porn.
The Googlers speculated that people see their mobile phones as more personal and private, and therefore were more comfortable making adult queries. A cell phone can be a more favorable device than a home or work PC because phones are typically only used by one person.
Google's numbers don't jive with the ICM Registry, the agency selected by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to oversee the proposed .xxx domain recently stricken down by the US Government.
ICM says that more than 10% of all online traffic and 25% of all global Internet
searching is adult-content oriented. In June, ICM said there were over 100,000
adult webmasters worldwide operating well over one million adult domains.
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Different Browsers, Different Appearance Results
When dealing with web design layouts, most designers make a choice between using
table-driven appearances and using cascading style sheets (CSS) to set the look
of a web page up. While table layouts have established themselves as the old guard
of web design, style sheet-based designs and layouts could be considered the young
upstart, looking to change the status quo.
The supporters for CSS layouts correctly point out that the document presenting
the web page is quicker and easier to load, due to the reduction of bloated, table-filled,
content of such an HTML document. However, one of the WPW posters has come across
a problem trying to implement a change from tables to a CSS-driven layout. Apparently,
the poster is getting different preview results, depending on which browser is
being used to view the document. Check out what's being said and see if you have
any advice to give.
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Different browser results even with CSS
I'm working on new version of our company website using HTML 4.01 strict and css. Right now I'm trying to get the main layout down before I start working on all of the pages.
Firefox seems to be the only one that shows the site how it is supposed to look. IE seems to not have the footer all the way at the bottom until I resize the browser window - then it jumps to where it is supposed to be. Opera does some weird thing where it needs to scroll to the right to view the entire page. Not much, but enough to cheese me off.
Anyone see any glaring design errors? Any recommendations are appreciated.
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WebPro Question: |
Concerning AdWords: Is my site really that good, or have Google simply lowered
their standards to the point where pretty well anyone can get in?
- ADAM
Web Design
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