“Secret” Google Products
“Secret” Google Products Via Google Operating System, Tony Ruscoe has an interesting post on secret Google stuff. More from GOS: “Tony Ruscoe has found many...
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AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email
AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email First, a bit of background from InfoWorld: “For the first time in its history, AOL is displaying ads along with...
Google Spreadsheets
Google Spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets is (semi) up and running today; it’s in a limited beta test at this point, so you can’t actually use it,...
New Search Tab at Bloglines
New Search Tab at Bloglines From Bloglines News; there’s a new search tab within the Bloglines interface that’s the “first big mashup with Ask.com.” More...
Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay
Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay Just in the last five minutes, I’ve received a letter addressed personally to ME from the CEO of...
AllYouCanUpload from CNET – Free Photo Upload Site
AllYouCanUpload from CNET – Free Photo Upload Site According to TechCrunch, CNet is becoming “disruptive” (we always knew that, didn’t we) with their release of...
Google To Close Orkut Pages That Encourage Violence
Google To Close Orkut Pages That Encourage Violence This from the Miami Herald; Google has “agreed to shut down some communities on its popular Orkut...
Topix and AP Sign News Distribution Deal
Topix and AP Sign News Distribution Deal From the Official Topix Blog, Chris Tolles announced that Topix has signed a deal with the Associated Press:...
Search Engines Pose Security Risks, According to McAfee
Search Engines Pose Security Risks, According to McAfee This via Pandia; “McAfee has published a study on the security risks of Internet searching together with...
Web Browser Hijack Worm in Yahoo Instant Messenger
Web Browser Hijack Worm in Yahoo Instant Messenger This from eWeek: “Security researchers have identified a new worm spreading across Yahoo’s instant messaging network that...
Terry Semel of Yahoo Interview Notes by Jeff Jarvis
Terry Semel of Yahoo Interview Notes by Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine took some excellent notes of an interview primarily conducted by Ken Auletta...
694 Million People Are Online
694 Million People Are Online That’s probably give or take a few hundred thousand (but who’s counting). This via Son of a Pitch; Comscore reports...
“What Day Is…” Feature Compared
“What Day Is…” Feature Compared This morning I couldn’t for the life of me remember when Mother’s Day was, so I decided to ask a...
Google Health Coming?
Google Health Coming? According to a few rumors around the Web today: Inside Google, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch, etc. – we might be...
British Searchers Use More Than One Search Engine
British Searchers Use More Than One Search Engine Via Pandia, a new study out from Harvest Digital shows that searchers in the UK are not...
Google Gives Away Free Downloads of SketchUp
Google Gives Away Free Downloads of SketchUp Via blogSEO, I learned that you can grab a free copy of Google SketchUp, “an easy-to-learn 3D modeling...
Yahoo Go Is A Go
Yahoo Go Is A Go From Yahoo Next, I learned that Yahoo TV is (semi) up and running (still in beta). More from the site:...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for Download
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for Download According to the official IE Blog, Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now available. More from the site:...
Windows Live Mail Has Four-Month Expiration Date
Windows Live Mail Has Four-Month Expiration Date From Inside Microsoft, Windows Live mail accounts will have a four-month expiration date; meaning, if you go away...
Google Calendar Live – Are There Google Calendar Privacy Issues?
Google Calendar Live – Are There Google Calendar Privacy Issues? Yes, the highly anticipated Google Calendar is now live at calendar.google.com, for all your calendar...
Monster.com is a Monster in the Job Search Engine Market
Monster.com is a Monster in the Job Search Engine Market This according to the InternetStockBlog: “Monster is the leader in a business that many, many...
Sprint to offer local information search
Sprint to offer local information search This from eWeek: “Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans on Monday to kick off a local directory cellphone service...
Round Two of Podzinger vs. Podscope
Podscope and Podzinger – An Update I’ve had a pretty productive email exchange with a few folks from both Podscope and Podzinger (see my previous...
Podscope vs. Podzinger: A Podcast Search Engine Cage Match?
Podscope vs. Podzinger: A Podcast Search Engine Cage Match? I received this from the powers that be over at Podscope today (with the subject line...
Yahoo Canada Beta-Testing New Yahoo Mail Features
Yahoo Canada Beta-Testing New Yahoo Mail Features This via the Social Software Weblog; Yahoo is testing a variety of really interesting new features in their...
New (Beta) Yahoo Local News
New (Beta) Yahoo Local News This from Son-of-a-Pitch; Yahoo News is now offering Yahoo Local News headlines, something that Topix actually has been doing for...
Windows Live Safety Settings
Windows Live Safety Settings This via BetaNews; Windows Live Safety Settings will be coming out of beta by the summer of 2006; with “content filtering...
Search Engine Optimization for Blog and RSS Feeds
Search Engine Optimization for Blog and RSS Feeds Stephan Spencer has made available (it’s a .ppt file) his excellent Search Engine Strategies presentation, Blog and...
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search MSN has had to do some pretty fast backpedaling due to statements from European MSN head...
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009 This study from MarketWire; a new study from eMarketer reports that “paid search advertising spending,...