Archive for October 10th, 2007
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007With PHP, CSS, Ruby On Rails and so on, it’s easy to forget that HTML is where it all began. Even with its age, HTML is still essential for every wanna-be web developer, so we’ve gathered 30+ resources for you to learn, code, validate and more.
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Blinkx Launches Another Way for Video Publishers to Make Money
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Blinkx, a video search engine, has launched their advertising program to allow publishers to earn revenue on their uploads. Much like AdSense for YouTube, which was revealed earlier this week, Blinkx’s solution matches ads contextually with videos. Ads are displayed either in a transparent window at the bottom of the video screen, or in a [...]
Google Acquisitions by Year, 2001-2007
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Below, I’ve embedded a table of all the Google acquisitions from 2001-2007 (acquisitions, not investments). It’s essentially Wikipedia’s data on Google acquisitions, with a couple of additions from Stan Schroeder’s big list. Considering that even Wikipedia has missed out a couple, you can see how hard it is to get good data here. But the [...]
Yahoo Buying 10% of Alibaba IPO, Expanding its Role in China
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Yahoo has announced that it plans to acquire 10% of the shares which are being offered by Alibaba.com in an IPO which is expected to raise $1 Billion. Yahoo already owns 40% of Alibaba, and Alibaba owns 100% of Yahoo China… which can get complicated.
To make everything a bit more complicated, the company which owns [...]
BitTorrent DNA: Torrenting No Longer A Dirty Word
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007BitTorrent has been getting somewhat of a bad rap. Although BitTorrent itself sells copyrighted content over its P2P file sharing protocol, the service has become better known for less than legal downloads from sites like “The Pirate Bay”. It has been particularly popular for pirating because it easily distributes the cost of transmitting files across [...]
Mixaloo: Share Mixtapes and Make Money While Doing It
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Poughkeepsie, NY startup Mixaloo wants to make the experience of purchasing music online more social and rewarding, both emotionally and financially.
The company is taking a phenomenon - the mixtape - that has spanned several decades and media formats - 8 tracks, audio cassettes, CDs, and MP3 players - and bringing it to the web.
As a [...]
Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007BREAKING NEWS: Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google.
Jaiku Founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen today posted this on their homepage:
“While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we [...]
Ecommerce - Google AdSense Broadcasts Itself
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Don’t look now, but the competition between Google and traditional television media isn’t just talk anymore. It’s on. In a statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com, the company said it is now offering ad-supported embedded video units to AdSense publishers.
The announcement pits Google against traditional media companies, such as NBC Universal, News Corp. Web Video, and the [...]
Google Next Up on Universal Enterprise Search
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Google is preparing to launch the fifth generation of its enterprise search appliance, this time adding “universal search” features that can access other enterprise content management systems such as those from EMC, IBM and Microsoft, InternetNews.com has learned.
According to an internal document from the company, Google Search Appliance version 5.0 will include universal search capabilities [...]
How to Make Billions in Advertising
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week said his company aims to have as much as 25 percent of its revenues coming from advertising within a few years.
Those comments, given during a keynote speech at the !MAGINE 07 trade show in Paris, didn’t include details on exactly when that might occur. Nevertheless, the claim is not [...]