The profit motive drives spammers to do anything they can to get their offers in front of an audience, because somewhere out there, someone probably will buy into their scams.read more
After a lot of blog buzz, Powerset finally launched its search engine with the initial aim at pulling information out of Wikipedia more effectively.read more
Twitter doesn't always work well; its frequent outages have earned it all sorts of negative attention. It has at least partially redeemed itself, though, as Twitter was one of the first sites on which news of the earthquake in China
Macy's Inc. says it will discontinue its Bloomingdales By Mail catalog in early 2009 and will focus on its brand's direct- to-consumer business through the more profitable Bloomingdales.com Web site, which is on track to generate $1billion in 2008.The restructuring
The creator of a phony Facebook profile set up in the name of an Indiana high school dean could soon be revealed. Roncalli High School Dean Tim Puntarelli filed a lawsuit against the social networking site seeking information regarding the
It looks bad enough when any executive quits a company. Making the matter potentially worse for Facebook is the fact that Adam D'Angelo served as its chief technology officer. And strangely, it seems that the CTO position will be eliminated
Microsoft said it is appealing a record $1.39 billion (899 million euro) fine from the European Commission for using high prices to reduce software competition."Microsoft today filed to the (EU) Court of First Instance an application to annul the European
There is a trend emerging: online giants making it so users can take their social networks with them anywhere they go on the web, sort of like digital carpooling. Google threw in its offering today, or will tonight anyway, with
After negative publicity about an eBay plan to require users in Australia to use PayPal-only, its online payment system, rumors about a similar policy in the U.S. were met with a forceful denial from the company."In the U.S., we are
Solid state drives aren't exactly mainstream. They would fit right in with the solar panels, Prius fleets, and organic food that can be found around the Googleplex, however, and that's reportedly where they're going.read more
Speed will be part of the quality score impacting one's keyword buys in Google's AdWords service, with Google now showing landing page load times in the AdWords interface.read more
U.S. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13 percent increase over February and a 64 percent boost over March of 2007 according to comScore Video Metrix.Google was again the top U.S. video property with more
Shortly after Fund.com raked in $10 million, reportedly a record-breaker for a straight domain price, Jay Westerdal, the 30-year-old CEO of Name Intelligence, Inc., put up Harmony.com at the starting bid of $5 million, a sale that went live officially
So long as it winds up in the trashcan, spam isn't too much of a problem for end users. Yet security researchers have discovered a way in which spammers could use Gmail to send a massive number of messages straight
Bloggers looking to brag on themselves (or "share their most popular stories," if you prefer) can now do it more easily thanks to Benjamin Golub. Golub's RSSmeme API will create a list that should work with all of the most
