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Google Video Catching Up With Features
Users of Google Video now have a few new options available that allow the viewer to rate the videos they see, label them with relevant tags, and leave behind comments for the world to see.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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EBayer Sells Herself As Ferrari Accessory
She must have seen the Center for Media Research report that eBay was the #1 auto sales destination on the Web before she placed her Ferrari Enzo - and herself - on the auction block. It's not because she needs the money; she needs a husband as rich (or richer) than she is.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Atlas Can Lift ASP Development
Microsoft offers its version of an Ajax framework called Atlas, which integrates cross-browser script libraries with ASP.NET server-side development.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Yahoo! Has A New Number: It's 3
Yahoo! has teamed up with UK-based mobile phone provider 3 Group, making Yahoo! Web services like Search, Mobile Web, Messenger, Mail, and Go for Mobile available to 3's 175 million worldwide subscribers.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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CouchSurfing Bites The Melodramatic Dust
CouchSurfing, the brainchild of Casey Fenton, has apparently departed from this world. And to send the site on its way, Fenton wrote a laughably sentimental goodbye letter. Please, if your website should happen to expire, don't handle it like this.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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German Publisher Drops Google Protest
German publisher WGB dropped its petition for preliminary injunction against Google Books Library Project this week. Google says the Copyright Chamber of the Regional Court of Hamburg advised the company the petition would not succeed.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Kerry Pledges Support For Net Neutrality
Former presidential candidate Senator John Kerry weighed in on the Network Neutrality debated by submitting a column to SaveTheInternet.com voicing his commitment to the principle's protection.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Who Benefits From A Non-Neutral Net?
The new question on Net Neutrality is "who benefits?" There's been a lot of talk on both sides of the issue, and it can be difficult for those outside the Internet industry to get a handle on what's true. Perhaps if we look at who is talking, and from what pedestal, we can better understand.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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The Incredible Exploding Laptop
There was a report last week of an exploding computer at a conference in Osaka, Japan. It seemed to be the real deal - there were pictures of a flaming laptop - but I dismissed the story. Surely, I thought, someone had tinkered with it and, intentionally or not, caused the mishap. Now I'm not so sure.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Office 2007 Launch Delayed. Again.
Microsoft announced earlier today that it will delay, yet again, the release of Office 2007. This occurred as a result of "product performance" issues, according to the software giant. The Office delay may affect the launch of Windows Vista.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Microsoft Buys A DAM Company
Digital asset management (DAM) company iView Multimedia has been acquired by Microsoft, according to an announcement from iView founder Yan Calotychos yesterday. The acquisition was completed on June 22.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Adobe Flex 2 Shows Its Muscle
The new Flex 2 environment represents Adobe's effort to clean up browser-based development and make Flash Player 9 an even more desirable place for delivering business applications to consumers.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Dell Brings IT Mgmt Down to Google Earth
Dell has given midsized businesses an upgrade in status with the launch of a new IT services plan called Platinum Plus. The service will also feature the capabilities of Google Earth Pro for real-time tracking of IT issues.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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TeachersPayTeachers: Cheating?
Most educators frown heavily upon the practice of students "sharing" their work with each other. Whether someone gives an old paper to a friend, or sells an essay online, instructors reject such forms of plagiarism. But now, through a new website, teachers are invited to participate in an information market of their own.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Web Giants to Court: Craig's Our Buddy
Craigslist received a boost in court last week from its giant Internet friends. Google, Amazon, AOL, and Yahoo! filed an "amicus brief" on behalf of the online listings site, which has been wrangling with discrimination lawsuit that, if successful, could have huge implications for Web site operators and their relationships with third party content providers.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Vuitton Bags Win In Google Case
Selling trademarks to competitors with AdWords may be a practice seeing its end of days at Google, as luxury brand Louis Vuitton declared victory after a French court ruling.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Internet Companies Unite Against Child Porn
The scum of the Earth just got five new corporate enemies. AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, United Online, and Yahoo! have signed on to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's campaign against child exploitation on the Internet.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Microsoft Builds CodePlex Developer Site
Open source and Microsoft would have been an oxymoron a decade ago, but Microsoft has begun embracing the sharing ethos that has given the world software like Linux and the Apache web server.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Microsoft's Move Into Communications
Microsoft has announced plans to launch a unified platform for e-mail, instant messaging, videoconferencing, and telephone calls. This move could serve to strengthen the company's monopolistic characteristics. What's more, the Redmond-based corporation intends to use Office 2007 as the communications platform.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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The (Potential) Iron Fist Of Microsoft's WGA
Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage is drawing the ire of a number of experts, analysts, and users. The program is intended to guard against "counterfeit or non-genuine" copies of Windows; it also leads the way to "free downloads" and "free updates." But many people think it's getting a little too Big Brother-y.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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NBC and YouTube Make Up, Hold Hands
Despite past riffs between the two regarding intellectual property, NBC and YouTube announced a strategic partnership to promote NBC programming on the video sharing site.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Tower Records Digitizes
Apple's wildly popular iTunes service just got a little more competition. Music industry veteran Tower Records launched 'Tower Records Digital,' a web-based music download store offering 99 cent songs at higher than usual quality.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Making Your Newsletter Readable
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has some advice for email newsletter publishers: skip the intros and skip the geek lingo (among 165 other tips). Subscribers are scanners, not readers, still prefer email to RSS, and are quick to dump you for a competitor.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Site Design With Vaastu Shastra
Would you like to improve your website? Then utilize vaastu shastra - "the science of direction that combines all the five elements of nature and balances them with man and materials."
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Shopping With Jellyfish
How's this for a place to shop - a site "where stores compete to lower your price." That's the concept behind Jellyfish, a "new kind of search engine" that shares ad revenue with buyers. Right now, it's only in beta form, but the site already offers "1000's of stores."
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Hitwise Scopes Out The Competition
Want to know why your competitor's website is so successful? Hitwise unveiled a service today that gives clients a glimpse into what your nemesis is doing right. Called Hitwise Conversions, the data reporting service outlines how online users navigate within specific sections of competitive websites.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Study Says You're Not Funny
It's nice when a study comes out confirming what you already know. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology revealed that just over half of email recipients were able to discern sarcasm within the text.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Digg V3 Weathers Early Storm
A healthy response to the latest update to the Digg community contributed news site proved a challenge to the relaunched site's administrators.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Proposed Privacy Protector Loses Laptops
The Federal Trade Commission has been touted by a group of high-tech and other industry powers as the best choice to enforce any federal privacy laws that pass, but the agency has a little problem safeguarding its data too.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Dorkus Maximus Drops Suit, Discovers Email
A New York legislator with an apparent history of odd child-protection measures (like a war on tanning beds) has dropped his lawsuit alleging that Google is the "world's largest facilitator and distributor of child pornography."
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Yahoo Toasts To Global Answers
Nearly a week after Yahoo! launched its "Ask the Planet" promotion for its Yahoo! Answers service, the company posted a reminder about the additional languages the service would include - and girl drink recipe to go with it.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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French (Try To) Challenge Google Earth
Sacre bleu! The French have unveiled a website known as Geoportal that is intended to rival Google Earth. The European counterpart will have more detailed images than its American-based competitor, but its scope will be limited to within French borders.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Dotmobi Hides Generics From Squatters
Thousands of generic words in multiple languages have been set aside by the .mobi domain registrar as Dotmobi attempts to thwart cyber-squatters who would buy those names for the sole purpose of reselling them at a hefty profit.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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FCC Approves VoIP Tax
The Federal Communications Commissions unanimously agreed that voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services had to pony up to Uncle Sam just like every other phone carrier.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Berners-Lee, Christians Hope For Neutrality
In today's Net Neutrality news, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee evangelizes about how the Internet should be treated. Meanwhile, the Christian Coalition has called for its prayer partners to focus their collective energy on the Senate Commerce Committee vote.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Co-Registration A Path To More Subscribers
Co-registration is billed by some as an efficient method for bringing in fresh subscribers to e-mail newsletters. The practice involves listing your company among others, so that when people sign up for one of the other publications, they can choose to receive yours, as well.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Ancestry.com Expands Database – A Lot
"The year was 1850. Gold was discovered in California. The ‘Scarlet Letter' was published. Where were your ancestors?" That's the advertising line attached to Ancestry.com's latest update: complete census records from 1790 to 1930.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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HP Cracks Down On Ink Refills
You might want to think twice before refilling an ink cartridge; according to Hewlett-Packard, that act may be a patent violation. The company is going after retailers Walgreens and Office Max for the "offense." Epson and Lexmark have taken similar actions in the past.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Ether Is Not For Phone Sex
Imagine you're Phil Gordon, one of the top 5 poker players in the world and host of Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown." How many Vegas-bound amateurs do you think are dying to pick your brain before laying their money down? Are they willing to pay for it? Ingenio is betting that they are as the company officially launches Ether, a service that enables the pricing and selling of your "intellectual capital" over the phone.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Sun Swings Derby Into JDK
The Java DB from the Apache Derby Project, and GroupLayout from the NetBeans GUI Builder, will be part of the Java SE 6 Development Kit.
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Date: 2006-06-21
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‘Tis The Season – Of CRM Mergers
The research firm Gartner thinks the rash of mergers and acquisitions in the customer relationship management sector has only just begun, according to its latest findings. The company believes "the CRM market will continue its consolidation unabated."
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Date: 2006-06-21
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AOL Wants You Dead Or Alive
You would think being dead would get you out of your AOL account. Not so, apparently, unless you can be a ghost in their machine and possess a customer service rep. The daughter of woman killed in a car accident tells Consumerist.com that an AOL rep requested her dead mother call in and cancel herself.
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Date: 2006-06-21
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Building A Better Site
Every website wants to draw more visitors. The site's owner then hopes the visitors will become loyal consumers of whatever it is that's offered.
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Date: 2006-06-21
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Study: Tech Replacing Trees
Over the past 19 years, the number of people visiting national parks has been steadily decreasing. The cause of this trend? Video games, television, and the Internet. That is the finding of a study funded by the Nature Conservancy.
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Date: 2006-06-21
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The Wonderful World Of Search Patents
There were quite a few patent applications filed this week. Some of them were rather mundane; others looked more interesting. In terms of sheer volume, Yahoo led the way with five, while Google requested four. Go Daddy, Ask.com, and Xerox tied for last with one application each.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Google Signs On to Consumer Privacy Petition
Google announced today that the company has signed on to a lobbying effort calling for federal consumer privacy legislation. The Mountain View, Ca. based company joins up with other technology and economic powerhouses like Microsoft, Intel, Eli Lilly, and eBay.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Canadian ISP A Net Neutrality Smoking Gun?
It's been difficult for the layman to conceptualize what is meant by the neologism "Network Neutrality." It floats over heads like the word "neologism." Advocates typically have cited scenarios that could happen without a neutral Internet and, when they can, cite real life examples - like yesterday's report of a Canadian ISP shakedown.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Netflix To Offer Movies For Download
Netflix is forging a new weapon to employ in its eternal war against Blockbuster. Or, depending on one's point of view, it's creating a nifty new product for its customers. The item in question is an Internet-connected, set-top box that would download movies overnight, eliminating the (small) hassle of mail service.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Opera 9 Pushes The Limits
The latest version of the Opera web browser has emerged from beta, bringing BitTorrent support, RSS feedreading, content blocking, widgets, and tab previews to its millions of users.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Girl Sues MySpace After Sexual Assault
A teenage girl and her mother have filed suit against MySpace.com after the 14-year-old was sexually assaulted by a man who lied about his age on his profile. The outcome of the suit could have large implications for how much liability website operators face for events occurring offline.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Google Makes Calendar Publishable
Google has updated its online Calendar service by making it possible for people to publish their calendars for others to see. Calendars created can be given a webpage or can be incorporated into websites or blogs.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Verizon Calls Vonage On Patents
Things just go from bad to worse for Vonage. On top of a tanked initial public offering (IPO) and a class action shareholder lawsuit, Verizon has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) company in a Virginia federal court.
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Tips For Dealing With Stranger Danger 2.0
When I was a kid cautionary tales usually involved crossing the street, stranger danger, and scissors. Modern parents are adding anecdotes about MySpace and other social networking sites where strangers transform from shadowy abstract figures in far away communities to hoards of perverts lurking about your living room.
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Kosmix Searches Yield Oddities
Kosmix.com is a self-proclaimed "world class search engine that lets people search less, and discover more great stuff." It attempts to return search results sorted into categories that the user can then inspect or ignore. But based on the results several test queries generated, Kosmix still has a few kinks to work out.
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Date: 2006-06-19
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VeriSign Teams With eBay For SMS Alerts
For eBay auction bidders tired of losing out to last-minute snipers whilst running errands (or whatever may pull your attention from the computer), VeriSign and eBay announced an agreement to deliver mobile alerts via SMS from VeriSign's Intelligent Messaging Network (VIMN).
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Senate Mulls 'Net Neutrality Lite'
The cries of a million or so petitioners have made it a little farther into the aural canals of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Stevens has offered up a compromise on Network Neutrality in a provision one critic is calling "Net Neutrality Lite."
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Gates Announces Semi-Retirement
It'll take two men to fill Bill Gate's shoes at Microsoft. In a surprise announcement late yesterday, the behemoth software company chairman, whose Windows operating system changed the face of personal computing, said he would "transition" out of a day-to-day role in the company so he could more intensely focus on charity work.
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Date: 2006-06-16
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Google, Yahoo, And MSN To Vie For MySpace
MySpace, the dominant social networking site, would like to partner with one of the Web's leading search engine companies. So said Peter Chermin, the chief operating officer of News Corp., which owns MySpace.
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Date: 2006-06-16
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Pew Survey On Online Banking
In a report titled "Online Banking 2006: Surfing to the Bank," the Pew Research Center declared that the number of Internet users who bank online is on the rise. Unfortunately, their most recent in-house data appears to be from December of 2005.
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Date: 2006-06-16
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EC Addresses Web Accessibility
34 European countries have agreed upon an "Internet for all" plan of action that is intended to make sure the nations' most disadvantaged groups have Web access. The European Commission (EC) created the agreement.
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Date: 2006-06-16
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Million Surfer March Descends On Capitol
SaveTheInternet.com lugged one million petitions and letters to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to reiterate to lawmakers that a large and diverse group of citizens from all political backgrounds favored Net Neutrality legislation.
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Date: 2006-06-16
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Firefox Debuts In World Cup
As Juan, a soccer fan, plugs away at his desk job, he isn't as distraught as he might be for having to miss his home country's appearance in the World Cup. Juan's Firefox browser is decked out in his national colors and fills him in each time his team scores a GOOOOOOAAALLL!
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Hitwise Publishes Live Search Feed to SEMPO
Online intelligence company Hitwise is publishing a live feed of search term data on the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) website to give a real-time glimpse into searcher behaviors.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Google's Government Search
Google launched a search site specializing in U.S. government information on Thursday. It's called, appropriately enough, Google U.S. Government Search, and it covers a number of sources from local, state, and federal levels.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Adobe's Apollo Program
Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue - the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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How Not To Make Your Customer Hate You
Perhaps the best single guideline for web design is to ask yourself, "what do I like?" Seems an obvious concept, but if you do any surfing at all, you know there are some sites that grab you and keep you, and others you'll break your mouse finger to get out of. The purpose of this article is to remind you of the things you hate.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Amazon Enters Grocery Biz
You can buy books at the grocery store. Why not groceries at the book store? Amazon.com has reentered the previously precarious online grocery market by offering nonperishable food items like pasta, ramen, and canned goods.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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eBay Adds 'Skype Me' Icons For Auctions
On Monday eBay said that it had a special announcement for sometime Tuesday regarding a new incorporation of Skype technology for its online auction house. Bill Cobb, president of eBay North America, announced sellers can begin placing "Skype Me" buttons alongside product listings.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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"Free Alaa" Googlebomb
Alaa Abd El-Fatah is a peaceful proponent of democracy who was jailed during a nonviolent protest - his supporters in Egypt want you to know this. They want anyone who googles "Egypt" to know this, as a matter of fact. A Googlebomb campaign has begun to link that word to a "Free Alaa" blog.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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Japanese Search Targets U.S. Counterparts
According to the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," search competitors Google, Yahoo, and MSN would do well to band together in the face of a new threat. Thirty Japanese companies, with the support of the Japanese government, are joining up to create a competing search engine.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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Microsoft Extends Office Training Online
A computer on your desk at work equals a 17-percent pay raise, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's not so much the machine, it's the skills of the person working it. When answering the job ad, she was able to tell recruiters she knew how to use Excel.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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MSN Invokes Karma For Charity Campaign
MSN is launching a karmic charity campaign called Under the Butterfly, a concept based on the famous Butterfly Effect that asserts small events impact larger ones. It's "karmic" because participants in the event will have a choice: keep a prize or donate the cash equivalent.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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Google Searches Bard, Finds Yorick's Skull
Google launched a new function in conjunction with its Book Search, one that celebrates, not relegates, a bard without besmirch. Shakespeare, in high school you were never easy, as we emulated with poems that to the ear and eye were cheesy. Like this one.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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SEO Tip: Use MSN For Target Practice
SEO Book author Aaron Wall has compiled a stellar beginner's guide to search engine marketing and optimization and has posted it on his weblog. Among the more interesting suggestions Wall makes: make a "burnable" website for MSN and Yahoo!, as they're much easier to game than Google.
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Date: 2006-06-13
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MySearchBot Generates Results, Interest
Advanced Interactive Marketing, Inc. has come up with an interesting (and free) new product. Called MySearchBot, the company touts it as "the first and only search tool to organize, filter, classify and share information mined from search engine results."
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Sampa Beta Builds Sites
Former Microsoft employee Marcelo Calbucci wants you to have a website. And he'd like it very much if you use his new product, called Sampa, to build it. Although it denies simple classification, Calbucci speaks of Sampa as a "blog on steroids." It's for home or business use.
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Google Geo Developer Day, Where 2.0
What a day… I knew it was going to be full of news and cool stuff when Eric Schmidt (CEO), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (co-founders) walked onto the stage at the Googleplex - they note that geospatial is a defining opportunity in search!
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Another Week, Another Zeitgeist
The Google Zeitgeist for the week ending June 5 (yes, it's slightly out of date) featured a smattering of sports-related items among the usual mishmash. In case you don't know, the Zeitgeist is a list of the top fifteen "gaining search queries."
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Rebuttal To The Washington Post
The Washington Post Online published an editorial Monday seeking to debunk pro-Net Neutrality arguments, erring on the side of non-regulation. Point by point, this column begs to differ.
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Google Wins Earth Patent Judgment
A virtual mapping company's request for an injunction against Google Earth was rejected by a Massachusetts federal judge on Friday. Skyline Software Systems claimed that the mapping service was a violation of a patent granted in 2002.
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Date: 2006-06-13
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What Not To Search For In China
It is widely known that Google's Chinese search service is censored by the requirements of the Chinese government, blocking out results for phrases like "democracy" and "Tiananmen." After an informal investigation of search results on Google.cn, a blogger has compiled a list of other blocked results, which reveals some curious terms.
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Date: 2006-06-12
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Over-50 Crowd Increases Online Spending
The online economy has discovered a valuable demographic: old folks. This group has more disposable income than any other, and data suggests the individuals comprising it are becoming much more comfortable with the Internet.
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Date: 2006-06-12
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“Boompa: Your Garage Online”
There are roughly two cars for every person in the United States. To some, these vehicles represent simple transports - efficient means to get from point A to point B. But to others, cars are objects worthy of fanatical attention. The new web startup Boompa is for that latter set.
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Date: 2006-06-12
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Email Digest: All In a Day's Spam
One thing you can say about spam: it rescues us from turning to the Reader's Digest for humorous modern office anecdotes. Sure, it accounts for up to a 12.5 percent loss of productivity, but what would our email stories be like without it?
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Date: 2006-06-12
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Search Patents Of The Week
In the latest round of search patents, Microsoft came out ahead - the software company was granted four. IBM and Yahoo snagged two patents each, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office saw fit to allow Google one new patent.
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Date: 2006-06-12
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Robert Scoble Quits Microsoft
Blogging pioneer and all-around good guy Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net, a podcasting/video blogging start up that recently took in several million dollars in financing.
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Date: 2006-06-11
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Some Other Last Miles For Broadband
What most refer to as "the last mile" is the last little bit of space between high-speed broadband lines and homes. But for others, the last mile is getting digital information to those who have a harder time accessing it. For one British entrepreneur, it is the blind who struggle traversing that last mile - for US politicians, the poor.
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Date: 2006-06-09
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Canadian Analysts Favor GBuy
RBC Capital Markets believes Google's new online payment system, called GBuy, could be the next big thing. The financial services provider, based in Canada, is maintaining its "outperform" rating on Google due to the perceived potential of GBuy.
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Date: 2006-06-09
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Angry Moms Stage "Nurse-In" At SixApart
Popular blogging site LiveJournal.com and parent company Six Apart have attracted the ire of breastfeeding bloggers after images of breastfeeding were banned from the site. After a letter campaign, "lactivist" mothers staged a "nurse-in" at the Six Apart San Francisco headquarters on Monday.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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There Is No Google Sandbox
No less an authority on search engine optimization than Shari Thurow has claimed the fabled Google Sandbox, a holding pen for sites new to the index, does not exist.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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Google Ships Video Mac Player
The universal binary provided by Google for the Mac version of its video player means it will run on both the PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers.
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Date: 2006-06-07
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Ask For A Weather Report
The Smart Answer Geeks at Ask.com know there is more to the weather than just the temperature and the amount of cloud cover floating around on a given day.
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Date: 2006-06-07
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The Saving Grace Of Offsite Data Backup
In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Precaution is better than cure." In a situation involving the loss of data, where a "cure" may be impossible, this phrase becomes even more true. Many businesses have taken this aphorism to heart, and are careful to back up their data. And perhaps just as importantly - they're backing it up offsite.
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Date: 2006-06-07
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Lenovo To Drop Linux?
Frank Kardonski, worldwide product manager of PC manufacturer Lenovo, made comments to the extent that the company will no longer offer Linux as an option.
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Date: 2006-06-07
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Craigslist Blocked By Cox Interactive
In case anyone may be wondering what a world without network neutrality may look like, it could resemble the "Server Not Found" pages seen by Cox Interactive customers trying to access the Craigslist classifieds site.
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Date: 2006-06-07
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Online Ticket Sales Legitimize Scalping
That ticket scalper on the corner may be moving online. Well, perhaps not, but the secondary market for tickets has made the shift, and it's resulted in more reliable and safe transactions for consumers. Companies like TicketsNow.com and StubHub promise on-time delivery, stable pricing, and act to turn away counterfeiters and con artists.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Email Helps Scripps Succeed
The Scripps Network is part of the venerable E.W. Scripps Company, and has kept its edge by embracing emerging media types and marketing to its customers through email.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Advertisers Neglecting New King Of All Media
The Web as an advertising medium is vastly underexploited in light of a unique new study revealing that Web usage dominates all other media in daily use. Additionally, the study found, chronic Web surfers tend to spend more freely than TV watchers.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Lawsuit Against Google Dropped, For Now
If you don't like the ranking your business is given by a particular search engine, you may be able to sue over it. That's what one man did, anyway, claiming a breach of contract on Google's part when his websites' placements dropped. Google rectified some omissions, but it also threatened to file an anti-SLAPP motion. The websites' owner, Mark Roberts, dropped his suit.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Windows Live Mail Gets Active Search
In conjunction with Microsoft's recently launched MSN adCenter, the company unveiled a new feature for the Beta version of Windows Live Mail Desktop called "Active Search" that conducts automatic searches related to email content while serving up targeted contextual sponsored links.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Topix Debuts Classifieds Service
Within the local news search at Topix.net, visitors will see local classified ads on the right side of the page and an invitation to post a free ad themselves.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Ajax Causing Impression Problems
The good news about Ajax technology in web pages is how it allows for the updating of content within the page without performing a full browser refresh; that's the bad news too.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Judge: Forum Comments Protected Speech
A recent federal court ruling accomplished two things: protection of online message board operators from liability for anonymous third party comments; and the funniest judicial opinion ever written.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Presidential Hopefuls Weigh In On Net Neutrality
Network Neutrality advocates have one word to describe the state of their cause, written in large comforting letters at the top of a gazillion emails: MOMENTUM. A principle that only recently has been understood by the public at large, or has garnered any mention in Congress has won the backing of US presidential candidates.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Google Click Fraud Settlement Questioned
An attorney for plaintiffs in a California click fraud case against Google has submitted a lengthy list of complaints about Google's Arkansas settlement to the search engine and asked that they meet about problems perceived with that settlement.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Internet Phones Smart For Home Or Business
If you haven't heard already, there's a revolution underway in terms of how people make phone calls. Of course, the strong possibility that perhaps neither you nor anyone you know is participating in this revolution may speak to its (in)effectiveness. Still, the telephone is being modernized, with the promise of worldwide free calls just visible on the horizon. The technology is known as VoIP.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Microsoft Releases CTPs Of Web Developer Tools
Two new preview versions have been released of Microsoft's upcoming Expression line of software for designers. These community technology previews (CTPs) of Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer follow on the heels of the first preview of Expression Web Designer.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Stalker Site Raises Fundamental E-Biz Questions
Whether something is gimmicky or memetic, viral or just sickening, an original extension or cheap piggyback program, consistently useful or merely buzzy, has many analyzing this Web 2.0 as it develops. Today's pontification: SingleStat.us, a simple interface that notifies the pining masses when their off-limits love is on the rebound.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Google's AJAX Search API Says 'Hello, World'
Google has released a downloadable beta version of its AJAX Search API, a javascript library that allows webmasters to embed inline Google searches (Web, local, video, and blog) in web pages, blogs, and other applications alongside existing content.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Yahoo Answering Users Again
A scheduled database upgrade took a turn for the worse for the Yahoo Answers team, but the group valiantly overcame the problem and returned the site to working order.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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What's Your Name, Little Website?
All the good names online really are taken, which is why so many new web sites have arrived on the scene with mashed-up words, dropped vowels, and other tweaks to make them memorable.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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D Is For Deleted Cookie
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) conducted research into third-party cookies and discovered about 12 percent of Internet users routinely reject those cookies from being accepted.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Microsoft: Two Heads Are Better Than One
The position of former Microsoft Office chief Steven Sinofsky has been replaced. It's apparently going to take two people, though, to take over his old job. Kurt DelBene and Antoine Leblond were tapped as Sinofsky's replacements.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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NoFollow Has Almost No Effect
More than a year has passed since Google introduced NoFollow - a tag intended to reduce comment spam on blogs. Unfortunately, NoFollow has had very little effect on spam, and it seems to be dissuading some people from providing genuine comments.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Microsoft Execs Bash Sony
Microsoft has fired another shot in its ongoing battle with Sony and the upcoming Playstation 3. Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson and Europe boss Chris Lewis made comments in an interview attacking the Japanese corporation's choice to build its Blu-Ray DVD technology into the platform.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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UK Journalists Boycott Yahoo!
A journalist organization representing 40,000 British and Irish members announced a boycott of Yahoo! today in response to the search company's compliance with Chinese authorities to help imprison pro-democracy reporters. The National Union of Journalists advised its members to cancel all Yahoo! operated services.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Saboteurs Pose Threat To Business Sites
Many businesses run blogs, and even if they haven't taken this step, most companies at least have websites. These can be powerful tools, acting as information centers and advertising platforms. But in the online world, saboteurs can be equally influential by setting up "protest sites" or dropping links to your URL in some unsavory places.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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EBay Adds Blogs and Wikis
eBay has embraced "social commerce" by adding blogs and wikis to its member offerings. EBay sellers can set up a blog at their eBay storefront or contribute to the eBay community wiki.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Texas To Enlist Web Patrol
Web vigilantes will soon have their chance to be virtual citizens on patrol once Texas implements its plan to place webcams along its 1000 mile Mexico border. Gov. Rick Perry called the setup a "virtual wall."
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Justice Department Seeks Your Web Records
Your Web activity may be scrutinized a little more closely in coming days, and records of it are going to stick around for longer than in the past. The U.S. Justice Department has asked giants AOL, Google, and Microsoft to hold onto accounts of their users' online actions for up to two years. The information is intended to help with investigations into terrorism and child pornography.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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$100 Laptops Will Cost $130
Many people were skeptical that MIT Media Lab could churn out a laptop for $100. And they were right. It'll cost between $130 and $140 until the One Laptop Per Child lead Nicholas Negroponte can fill enough orders to drop it to $100. But it's been a valiant effort and excitement around the recently unveiled prototypes is growing.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Wii To Launch In November?
The rumor mill began buzzing away yesterday evening when an "inside source" at Nintendo was apparently badgered into giving up a tentative release date for the hotly anticipated Wii game console. As rumors go, several people think it might very definitely be November 6th.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Dell To Preinstall Skype
In a second big announcement for Dell this week, the computer maker will be pre-installing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider Skype's software on its new line of XPS mobile computers. Last week, Dell and Google announced an agreement to integrate search capabilities and Mozilla Firefox browser.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Froogle Merchant Center Is No More
Say goodbye to the Froogle Merchant Center, Google Base swallowed it. Google made the announcement today that it has been replaced with the Google Base dashboard. Google was kind enough to go ahead and transfer your account and product information.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Google Likes To Tweak In Threes
Google announced a hat trick of small enhancements to previously existing services. Google Toolbar can now help you remember that long lost favorite website and Gmail can let you sass emailers in a number of different languages.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Chinese Journalists Supported On Yahoo Video
The new video service from Yahoo now matches competitors YouTube and Google Video in permitting users to upload videos to the service for sharing with others; two videos that made it to the system may be a bit embarrassing to Yahoo.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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