For a decade and a half the outbound link was a "hat tip," a courtesy or even system of content reimbursement; the "Web" is a web because of linking, each quality website helping to prop up another. It was actually kind of socialist in nature.
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Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:50:36 -0400
Google of course won the eBusiness sector in the recently released American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). No surprise there.
Apple won in the personal computers category, which really isn't all that shocking either.
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Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:50:25 -0400
Google is helping to set up an 8,000 square-foot headquarters for bloggers attending the Democratic convention in Denver next week and will provide similar services at the Republican convention in September. read more 
Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:32:17 -0400
Microsoft is tracking your data.
But so are Google and Yahoo!, as they are so quick to point out when confronted by the House.
A classic example of the "but everybody else is doing it" excuse that they taught us in D.A.R.E. in elementary school.
The drug of choice for search giants is not crack or pot though. It is ad-targeting - learning about you so they can fill your screen with advertisements from companies whose profits would be in their own best interest.
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Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:18:38 -0400
Signaling that maybe nobody is willing to let this linking-and-snippet business go to court, Moreover and parent company VeriSign have settled a lawsuit filed by the Associated Press for undisclosed terms.
By the tone of the press release, though, those terms must be favorable to the plaintiff. "AP is pleased to have resolved the litigation in an amicable manner and appreciates VeriSign and Moreover's efforts to resolve AP's concerns," said AP Vice President and General Counsel Srinandan Kasi.
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Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:20:08 -0400
In the SES session "Video Search Engine Optimization" (VSEO), Greg Jarboe, president & co-founder, SEO-PR, started by talking about YouTube. read more 
Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:35:52 -0400
Think of it as a tech-savvy, politically-oriented version of Oprah's Book Club: Google Reader's new Power Readers in Politics program is supposed to let anyone and everyone see what stories the main candidates and a number of journalists are viewing. read more 
Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:29:09 -0400
With the first week of the 2008 Beijing Olympics completed, Nielsen Online has released a report on how fans around the globe used the Internet to follow the games. Fans in 10 countries visited Beijing2008.cn, the official web site of Beijing games, at a rate of 930,000 per day, with traffic surpassing one million unique visitors on a number of days, as they searched for Olympic results, news and video. read more 
Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:21:04 -0400
It seems Facebook is all the rage, and MySpace is so over.
At least that's the impression you'd get perusing news articles about them.
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Publ.Date : Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:22:55 -0400
The Dow's had a bad few months; it lost around 885 points between April and June. Another market's doing fine, though, as Nielsen's statistics indicate that YouTube and several competing video-sharing sites experienced impressive amounts of growth in the same period. read more 
Publ.Date : Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:20:27 -0400
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