A Little Funding
The best thing that can ever happen to a web service is to have passionate users. Users that notice and email you the second there's a database problem, users that really push the limits of what you ...
Coming soon: Google Voice Search
The master of text-based search is looking to lend a lend a voice to Internet users everywhere, or so it appears based on Google's latest patent. Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and T...
Mo' Beta Maps
Today we added global satellite imagery to Yahoo! Maps beta. The new satellite imagery will help people visualize maps, driving directions, and local search, and is available across Yahoo! and to dev...
Tie me Webaroo down, sport
Is it a bubble yet? There's no way to be sure, but one telltale sign of irrational exuberance the last time around was the proliferation of companies based on ideas that simply made no sense. — The...
Business bites the blogging bullet
For the average business trying to protect and enhance its reputation, the prospect of having its actions scrutinised by an army of online commentators can feel like a threat. — After all, the last ...
IRS seeks PayPal's aid finding hidden cash
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, off...
News Corp. Has New Pitch: Generation Fox
Reorganizes Sales Force to Sell 12- to 24-Year-Old Demo Across Platforms — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Move over MTV. News Corp. is making an early grab for ad dollars aimed at the 12- to 24-year-old de...
MySpace.com Hires Official to Oversee Users' Safety
MySpace.com, the social networking Internet site popular with young people that has alarmed some parents and law enforcement officials concerned about sexual predators, announced yesterday that it was...
Combining OPML and RSS to create an export format for a blog
Marc Canter links to Joe Brockmeier's post about weblogs having a shared format. Timely. — I've been thinking about this myself because I want such a format too. Although I have written a tool to ...
Ad money lures established media into uncharted waters
So I ask Mark Cuban — a man who enjoys disrupting the establishment as much as any billionaire around — why the media industry seems to have gone insane lately. — Press releases about deals that wou...
Google Audio calls for talent
While browsing through the jobs at Google I stumbled across something new — postings targeted at future "Google Audio" employees. Some of the positions they are looking to fill are: Customer Support ...