Archive for October 14th, 2007
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007A search company’s mandate is clear: help people find exactly what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. For well over a decade, search companies have taken the approach of focusing almost all of their efforts on making their engines smarter, with better indexes, better ranking and faster servers.
While these are all hugely important efforts, [...]
Can Wal-Mart Revolutionize CPG Once Again With Product Reviews?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Consumer Packaged Goods giant Wal-Mart online. Although they’re clearly trying to beef up their own stockpile of (WMT) is once again changing the game when it comes to multi-channel e-commerce strategy. The big news this time is that they’re encouraging some 1.3 million employees to review productsonline reviews (after adding the feature in [...]
Watch YouTube Videos In Google Earth
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Google wants you to watch YouTube videos everywhere. Now you can watch geo-tagged videos inside Google Earth. Any video tagged with a latitude and longitude will show up when this new layer of Google Earth is turned on. So you can watch videos about the places you are exploring inside Google Earth.
It’s a good way [...]
There’s More To The FaceBook Traffic Story
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Om Malik says Facebook traffic is tanking, based on the September Comscore data which shows a 9.3% decline in uniques v. steady uniques at MySpace.There’s a problem though - he’s showing unique visitor data but talking about traffic. The Comscore data for U.S. traffic shows only a 4% decline, from 15.2 billion to 14.7 billion [...]
Google Math: Buy $1,000 in Radio Ads, And We’ll Give You $2,000 Back
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Here’s a good brain teaser for those famous Google job interviews: If you pay me $1,000, and I give you $2,000 back, how much profit does that leave me?
Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical question. It’s an actual promotion for Google’s radio ad network, known as Google Audio. That’s right, Google is offering $2,000 [...]
Does Google’s Equality Drive Extend To Old People?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Google posted earlier today on its efforts towards building a workplace that provides equal treatment to all staff. Google noted that it has ranked highly on the U.S. Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index during a “time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally, [...]
Wikipedia Hits Mid Life Slow Down
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Techcrunch posted yesterday on the move by the Wikimedia Foundation to relocate from Florida to San Francisco, but aside from the obvious conclusions that the move would allow Wikimedia to tap into the superior developer community out West, there may be another reason as well: a mid life slow down.
It’s tempting to call it a [...]
DivShare Upgrades its One-stop shop Free File Hosting Service
Sunday, October 14th, 2007When it comes to decide where and how to host your files on the web you ask yourself two main questions: Are you ready to pay for it? What is the best service for a the type of file you need. File hosting/sharing is a totally crowded space with both vertical solutions (think Flickr or [...]
Windows Live SkyDrive Doubles Storage to 1GB, Still Can’t Keep Up With Gmail
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Microsoft doubled the online storage consumers can get for free in Windows Live SkyDrive. It’s hard to get excited about that when Gmail is already giving me 2.9 GB of storage, with more on the way—4GB by the end of the month, and 6GB by early January, according to one [...]
The Clock is Ticking for Joost
Sunday, October 14th, 2007There’s a time bomb out there with Joost’s name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost’s peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web. Brightcove will soon be offering such streams to its video publishers using BitTorrent DNA. But the real threat to Joost will [...]
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