Monday, July 21st, 2008
Facebook Redesign To Go Live Tomorrow
Five months later and it looks like Facebook is ready to release their new profile redesign. Initially Facebook announced they were working on a redesign earlier this year. In May, a glimpse of the redesigned was released to developers in the developers sandbox. Tomorrow evening the redesign will be open to the public.
Google’s Android Losing It’s Mojo Fast
Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I’m afraid of what the future might hold for this platform.
First Commercial-Scale Tidal Power System Delivers
The world’s first commercial-scale tidal turbine developed by British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines, has delivered electricity onto the grid for the first time. In principle, SeaGen works much like an “underwater windmillâ€, driven by the power of the tidal currents.
Google Tests Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg
In the new Google Search Interface each comment has an up or down vote feature as well, and Google is using thumbs up and down icons that are exactly the same as those on Digg. The comments show the username of the person leaving it, and clicking on it shows their Google account profile.
Google Launches New Space Race To The Moon
When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead. Welcome to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration as seeking out new business ventures.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
SEO Shenanigans Pose Clear & Present Danger to Social Media
Steve Rubel: “I have recently witnessed a disturbing trend. Some respected experts are advocating launching social media marketing programs solely for the purpose of influencing search engines, rather than with the intent of fostering collaboration. This represents a clear and present danger to the fabric of the community.
Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanz
Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users.
Was Digg the best social site of 2007?
In 2007, the world’s favorite social network, MySpace, quickly gave ground to Facebook and companies like the ill-fated Netscape tried to take on Digg. But which of these sites was the best of 2007?
The Next Social Network: WordPress
Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to “build a social network with its skin inside out.†DiSo will first look to WordPress as its foundation.
Inside The Social Networking Craze
If you’re not already a part of the social networking craze, it can be difficult to understand what’s so great about sites like MySpace and Facebook. But nonetheless, millions of people flock to them and lead secondary lives on them.
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Who Will Control Advertising on the Web?
Exactly how are companies going to make money on the social web? The path to the next generation of online advertising does indeed remain murky, but two new deals may provide a little light.
Google Experimental Search with Digg Style voting
Straight from google experimental labs, they’re experimenting on search engine ranking which can be influenced by users via a “vote†(sort of like digg).
Overhaul of net addresses begins
The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net’s core addressing system have been taken. On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6. Widespread use of this format will end the shortage of addresses that sites can be given.
How Big Is the Web? 155,583,825 Sites – Report
A January Netcraft survey estimates that there were last month 155,583,825 WEB SITES ON THE INTERNET.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
True Knowledge Launches Natural Language Search Engine
Cambridge, UK based True Knowledge released its natural language search engine into private beta yesterday. Like the much-anticipated Powerset, the company aims to give appropriate answers to natural language queries, even if key query terms are not included in the data being indexed. Current search engines are unable to return appropriate results
Is Facebook Eyeing an Acquisition in China?
A report in a Chinese newspaper today indicates that Facebook may be looking to acquire social networking site Zhanzuo.com. A very rough translation using Google Translate indicates that Zhanzuo has turned down an offer in the $85-100 million range.
Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer
Whilst spruiking the release of Windows Live in Tokyo Thursday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told reporters that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search.
YouTube Enhances Video Flagging System
YouTube has announced they have improved their video flagging system. If you ever watch a video that might raise a concern, you can click on a “Flag” link below the video (when on a video page) that will enable you to report the video to a human editor at YouTube.
Just Sell Digg Already, Jay :: Says TechCrunch
Michaeal Arrington gives Advice to Digg: One thing that has become a certainly in our little tech world – a few months can’t go by without rumors surfacing that a sale of Digg is imminent. CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose are in a perpetual rumor cycle. The problem is, they seem to be the ones at fault for the rumors. The reason?
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Google’s “Nofollow” Rule
The “nofollow†tag, when added to a link, prevents Google from counting the link as such a “recommendationâ€, thus not providing any search ranking benefits to the site being linked to.
Rumor: Digg close to a $300 million sale
Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company.
Report: Google Organizing Less Than 0.02% of the World’s Information
The later study estimated that between 3,416,281 TB and 5,609,121 TB were produced in 2002, so there was a ~19% annual growth rate between ‘99 and ‘02. Assuming the same growth rate to present, somewhere between 6,869,341 TB and 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006. There were only 1085 Terabytes Organized by Google Last Year.
Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers
Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product.
The Social Enterprise – What Works, and What Doesn’t
Why should enterprises go social, and what are the compelling reasons for adoption?
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Netscape’s Digg Clone May Shut Down
AOL is considering killing off the “Digg Clone†social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead. One source says it’s a done deal. Another says no final decisions have been made.
OOPS: Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It!
Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.
Spock.com hopes to become the Google of people searches
People search site Spock.com went into public beta today after being privately tested for several months and claims to already have over 100 million individuals indexed in its databases. Better head over there and see if there’s any information about you.
The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles
When people see something wrong in Wikipedia they usually consider only 2 solutions: edit the article or sit on their hands. Unfortunately, neither approach typically results in the optimal outcome: a factually accurate profile containing trustworthy information. Here’s the right way to do it from a high ranking Wiki editor.
Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member.
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