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Blogging, Politics, And Modern Media
Robert Scoble revealed in his blog today that he had been invited by the John Edwards campaign to cover the Senator's announcement regarding his intention to pursue the U.S. Presidency.
Date: 2006-12-29
A Global Internet, A Local Focus
Search Engine Strategies is a wonderful conference series when it comes to keeping the industry informed about search engine marketing and optimization issues. The various SES events, held year-round and internationally, explore the nuances of search engine marketing as well as present information from top industry players and also from the search engine companies.
Date: 2006-12-18
SEW Names Sullivan's Successor
Incisive Media revealed today that Rebecca Lieb has been promoted to editor-in-chief of the ClickZ network. In fulfilling her new responsibilities, Lieb will take over for Danny Sullivan, providing editorial direction for the Search Engine Watch website.
Date: 2006-12-07
Google To Get Belgian News Hearing
A couple of parties to a lawsuit in Belgium against Google for its news indexing have settled with the search advertising giant, but Google will have to wait until 2007 to fight an injunction against its scraping of news content managed by distributor Copiepresse.
Date: 2006-11-27
Digg - News for the Socialites
I’ve been pondering my stance on Digg
recently. When I saw Christian Mezei’s Unofficial
FAQ regarding the Digg algorithm today, I thought
it would be a good time to chime in with my two cents.
It was quite an informative post, and I’ll try to touch
on some of the main points here, but I highly suggest
reading the entire post if you get the chance.
Date: 2006-11-10
Yahoo Search Subtely Nudges Webmasters
One of biggest thorns in the side of all search engines is non-relevant search results. Whether the cause of these types of results are spammers or webmasters who aren’t conscientious enough to check their work, poor SERPs can damage the reputation of search engine almost irrevocably (who, exactly, would want to use an engine that gives irrelevant results?).
Date: 2006-11-06
Stanford Says You're Hooked On The Net
Internet addiction used to be a joking matter, but it has reached a point where the reality of too much WWW has lead some to busted relationships, job losses, and other bad side effects.
Date: 2006-10-23
Yahoo Finance Wants Your Blog
Heavily trafficked blogs and sites can participate in the Yahoo Finance advertising test, and receive a day's worth of promotion on the Yahoo Finance website.
Date: 2006-10-09
Broadband Leads To More Online Politicking
Better content and wider broadband adoption, not more political interest, is credited for a spike in Internet use for seeking political and campaign news and information, according to Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Date: 2006-09-25
VON: How Web-Video Impacts Online News
At VON 2006, Caroline Little, CEO and Publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive,
spoke of the role Web-video would play...
Date: 2006-09-12
Visitors Value Video Viewing Variety
A survey by AOL and AP found that 54 percent of Internet users have watched or downloaded a video clip.
Date: 2006-09-06
YouTube Receives Minor Revisions
YouTube went down again thursday night, but this time, it was a planned "outage."
Date: 2006-08-21
SES 2006: Search Engines, Friend Or Foe
The best thing about search engines is how they make it easy to find relevant content out of millions of web sites; that may be the worst thing about them too.
Date: 2006-08-09
Inform Aims For News Publishers
The news search engine has shifted to marketing its services to publishers, and has landed the Washington Post and Huffington Post as early partners.
Date: 2006-07-31
P2PNet Furious At Google Over AdSense
One of several sites that have had their AdSense payments frozen by Google over accusations of click fraud has struck back and accused the search advertising company of acting in a draconian manner.
Date: 2006-07-18
MySpace Prepares To Invade Europe
Look out, world - MySpace is expanding. The social networking site has outlined plans to move into Europe.
Date: 2006-06-22
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.
Date: 2006-06-02
Ads, Syndication, And Multimedia
Video publishing represents the intersection of conventional content distribution and modern content syndication; monetizing it requires some different steps.
Date: 2006-05-17
Yahoo Web Ad Buzz Stimulates The Net
Yahoo has been slowly building up its next-generation paid search platform, and those who have tried it out have been ecstatic over the service.
Date: 2006-05-08
Americans Turning To Web For Big Decisions
As the Internet grows to become the default source of information for millions of Americans, 45% of Internet users, or 60 million Americans, say that the World Wide Web played a major role in major decision-making in the past two years, says Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Date: 2006-04-24
Agony Of The Blog Stars
When one is a high-profile blogger, and an employee of a prominent Internet presence, sometimes the prospect of posting an entry can cause some personal misgivings.
Date: 2006-04-19
CGM In The News
Consumer Generated Media (CGM) has been in the news the last couple days. Two items in particular caught my attention.
Date: 2006-04-10
CNN
Resets Its Home Page
Several changes on CNN's website embrace a look and feel that puts
a lot of emphasis on above-the-fold navigation and presentation
options.
Date: 2006-03-27
SixApart Acquires Splashblog
The Six Apart logo recently appeared on the SplashBlog website signifying a quiet acquisition (no announcement seems to have been made) of the mobile photoblogging company. The deal may be part of Six Apart's recently announced plans to launch several new products and services.
Date: 2006-03-13
SES NY: The Topix.net Approach To Web News
I met briefly with Chris Tolles from Topix.net
this afternoon. We had talked a bit back in December at the Chicago SES. At that
point, Topix was on the verge of a couple of fairly substantial changes so I figured
I'd swing by their booth and see how things were working out. The first and most
obvious...
Date: 2006-02-28
The Google Friends And Family Plan
Before Google unveils its beta products, they appear to utilize some early beta testers close to home, or more to the point, close to their employees' homes.
Date: 2006-02-20
Google Jobs Post Leads To GoogleNet Rumors
Google has stated before it has no interest in becoming a provider of network
services, but a job posting on its site solicits applications for Strategic Negotiators
with "negotiation of dark fiber contracts" listed as part of the desired candidates'
experience. There have been lengthy stories by telecom industry site Light..
Date: 2006-02-06
Google Updates News, Gmail
The business of Google rolls along, subpoenas and the potential of trade secret exposure to the Feds notwithstanding; two sections and one button made their way into Google News and Gmail, respectively.
Date: 2006-01-23
Last Bit Of ‘Internet History’ For Sale On EBay
In case you hadn't heard about it on CNN, Fox, ABC, or MSNBC among others, the final 1,000 pixels on The Million Dollar Home Page are for sale on eBay. With 5 days remaining, the current bid is just over $145,000. The simple and brilliant idea from the 21-year-old mind of Alex Tews has web-entrepreneurs shrieking "why didn't I think of that?" as they scramble to put up imitation sites offering anything from skin to dismemberment.
Date: 2006-01-06
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