Twitter Updates for 2008-09-17
New Blog Post – 27 Million People Watched Over 3 Billion Videos Online in the U.K.: .. http://tinyurl.com/55q9t7 # New Blog Post – Google Makes “My Location” Circle Smaller, Larger Depend.. http://tinyurl.com/5mjmjq # New Blog Post – Social Networking Taking Market Share from Dating, Adult Entertainme.. http://tinyurl.com/5jyw2m # New Blog Post – Google Discusses Search [...]
Who’s Vint Cerf Kidding?
The cold hard truth is, if kids want to find it, they’ll find a way to find it. They can’t be completely sheltered without locking them in their rooms, which probably does more damage than letting them see what they wanted to see in the first place. It’s not really the search engine’s responsibility to [...]
Journalists Show Strong Interest In Internet
A new survey from the Arketi Group finds that 84 percent of journalists say they would or already have used blogs as a main source or secondary source for articles. Of those surveyed 100 percent said they depend on the Internet to get their job done. Twenty-five percent of journalists said blogs make their jobs [...]
Google Not Guaranteed Top Spot Forever
Anyone who’s seen Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” has realized that lots of little creatures can constitute an extremely dangerous force. And as Halloween approaches, we have to ask: does Google, with its many competitors, have anything to be worried about? If we’re to continue our analogy to “The Birds,” it’s obvious that Google is no [...]
Facebook Subpoenaed Over Sex Offenders
At first glance, this looks bad: New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has subpoenaed Facebook and asked that the social network identify registered sex offenders who have become members. Depending on what happens, “bad” could become an understatement. Remember that Facebook may be trying to prove it’s worth $10 to $15 billion; a legal battle [...]
Suck Quieter, Lest They Make A Website About It
Pick whichever cliché you like: what goes around comes around; you catch more flies with honey; adding insult to injury; cutting off your nose to spite your face; his butt would make Harold a Sunday face. They all could apply here – maybe not that last one; just something my grandfather used to say. In [...]
Google Apologizes For Video Shutdown
After being blistered by criticism over the abrupt termination of the Google Video program, Google has offered an apology and full credit to video purchasers.Keep the Google Checkout credit, everyone. It’s a mea culpa from Google as the search advertising company realized its brusque shutdown of their Video service didn’t play well in the public [...]
AOL Needs To Shine Its Shoes
This article will be part tutorial, part sweating the small stuff. The tutorial is much, much shorter and more basic than the rest, so we’ll get to it first. AOL needs to hear it. When you remove a webpage, or move it to a new domain, it’s nice for your visitors if you notify them [...]
Social Networking And Marketing
Makovsky + Company, an independent global public relations firms has launched Online Fluency, a practice focused on applying the techniques of social networking to business-to-business marketing. Online Fluency is an outgrowth of projects the firm initiated for their clients in technology, financial services, professional services, health and visual communications. Robbin S. Goodman, Executive Vice President [...]
MTV And There.com Hit The Avatar Zone
Hi and welcome to the WebProNews clarification zone, where we try to unmash the mashups of media, technology, public relations, and what’s really going on. Not just any avatars, dear reader. We’re talking star powered avatars, based on reality, or at least a reality show. They present a pleasant escape, to places where warm sunshine [...]
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