IE7 promo page
I was going to read some Penny Arcade, but Robert Scoble invoked me. Jeremy points out that Google had an IE7 promo page that looked remarkably similar to a Yahoo! IE7 promo page. — I can only spea...
FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships. ...
Setting The Record Straight
As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Wi...
Loic Lemeur: Betraying 1000 attendees for his own political ambitions?
Last year at Leblogs we had the problem of being promised a high profile event, like *the* major event in this regard and got took by surprise how the audience was not really even. A lot of more geek...
2006 Web Technology Trends
It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 - and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to pub...
About Transferable Stock Options
We work hard to attract and retain the world's best talent in a number of ways, and a part of that is offering competitive compensation packages. We offer standard things such as competitive salary, ...
SFDC COMING AT YOU, THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
Poster child for SaaS Salesforce.com is bringing commerce to its AppExchange site with AppStore Checkout. This is the place where SFdC users can find lots of widgets and plug-ins for their SFdC.com C...
Yahoo's "Project Fraternity" Docs Leaked
Rumors about the possible acquisition of Facebook, usually with Yahoo as buyer, have been around for most of this year. Not that Yahoo or Facebook have asked for this attention, but the media is gett...
digg users are getting paid—just not by digg
just not by digg — I know these reports have been going around, but I have the inside line and figured it was time to share it. — A PR/marketing firm confirmed with me that they had a number of the...
Google's copyright fix
Barely two months ago pundits were predicting a litigation explosion for Google and its new YouTube video-sharing unit. But look what's happening instead. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — YouTube might ...
Gotuit SceneMaker Lets Users Tag And Cut Online Video
Gotuit will launch a social video tagging service on Tuesday that allows users to cut and tag any online video from any source. Gotuit is a video host for online video, mobile video, and cable TV. B...
Customers Strongly Endorse New Microsoft-Novell Deal
Just-released survey shows more than 90 percent favor vendor cooperation on interoperability. — A survey of technology decision-makers shows very strong customer support for the recent agreement bet...
Google Puts Clickfraud Rate At Under 2 Percent
Andy Beal over at MarketingPilgrim has a nice article on how Google's click fraud rate is less than two percent, at least according to Google's own figures. This is based off the "invalid" click rate...
By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking
At two separate events over the past week I expressed that blogging may be peaking. Now before you run to the phone booth to call your editor, I don't mean that it has peaked in influence. Hardly. ...
Congress and tech: Little to show
Politicians in Washington, D.C., spent the last two years promising new laws on everything from Net neutrality to computer security and social networking Web sites. — But when the 109th Congress fin...
Everybody Relax, Sony Says All PS3 Manufacturing Problems Fixed
Good news everyone! Sony's communications boss David Karraker says the company is on track to ship 1 million consoles by Year end—that's three weeks from now—since all their manufacturing problems ha...
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites
I got a phone call from my father the other day. "Oh," I thought immediately, "he's probably calling to finally apologize for failing to attend that basketball game I played at in fourth grade." But...
Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views
Yahoo's page views were down 9 percent month-over-month in November, allowing MySpace owner Fox Interactive Media to take the overall lead in that category for the first time, according to comScore da...