Truveo, Kosmix Hook Up Over Video
AOL picked up a partnership with a search site that isn’t named Google, as their Truveo video search adds to Kosmix results for health, auto, and travel queries.Kosmix will go the API route with Truveo to pull in video results for the RightHealth website. RightHealth is Kosmix’s beta test of a health-dedicated resource site. Queries [...]
Google Maps can now be integrated using HTML
Google announced today that they have simplified the method for integrating Google Maps on to your web site. The new method allows Google Maps to be integrated using simple HTML. As a result, integrating Google Maps no longer requires a knowledge of Java Script, and you no longer need an API key to do it. [...]
Yahoo Names The Search Agency Ambassador
Santa Monica- based The Search Agency, a search engine marketing and optimization firm, has been named a Yahoo Search Marketing Certified Ambassador. Yahoo Search Marketing gives the title to valued search engine marketing (SEM) clients that have completed training and meet the requirements to be named a Certified Ambassador so clients can identify SEM firms [...]
Google Launches Gmail Blog
Google’s got blogs for everything – have you even heard of CPG, Checkout API, and Librarian Central? Yet there’s a new blog to which almost all of our readers should be able to relate: the Official Gmail Blog. As described by Bill Kee, Google’s Associate Product Marketing Manager, this blog will function pretty much as [...]
EBay DevCon: PayPal Goes Mobile
After a limpid reception in the US of PayPal’s "Text2Buy" and "Text2Give" features, eBay has launched PayPal Mobile Checkout, a platform more closely mirroring the Web version. Damon Williams, program manager for PayPal Developer Network, spoke about the mobile payment service at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston today. Launched in 2006, the text-based purchasing [...]
AOL Launches Xdrive
AOL has launched the Open Xdrive, a public API that allows developers to create rich media management to share with their Web site users. Users can upload and share all file types such as photos, videos, music and documents from any Web site using Xdrive. Files are stored and accessed from the user’s personal online [...]
eBay Adds Host Of New Services
eBay has announced a number of new services and platform enhancements to help developers extend eBay content. The announcement was made at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston today. eBay’s platform extension gives its third-party developers a place to build and monetize new applications and put them anywhere from phones, blogs, televisions, Web sites and [...]
Google’s Ajax Feed API Interview with Mark Lucovsky
Google recently announced an extension to its Ajax API to include an Ajax Feed API. I spoke with technical director Mark Lucovsky about the Ajax Feed API to learn what it was about, and what it means for web masters. The very cool thing about this API is that it enables you to easily access [...]
Yahoo! Launches Search Marketing Commercial API Program
Yahoo! announced they are starting a Search Marketing Commercial API program. The press release details the levels of access the API will provide. Hoping to drive growth and innovation in digital advertising through dedicated third-party partner services Yahoo has opened access to the Panama platform technology. The release is below: Click to read the rest [...]
Like Statsaholic? Boycott Alexa
Alexa’s lawsuit against Ron Hornbaker to shut down his Statsaholic (formerly Alexaholic) has spurred calls for retaliation against Alexa by boycotting its services.This is another irony: Alexa is claiming that the data is proprietary, despite the fact that it relies on the community to supply that data. — Pete Cashmore highlights Alexa’s apparent thought process [...]
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