Google Announces TV Ads Trial
At Google, we are constantly looking for ways to improve user experience and bring value to advertisers, publishers and partners. Users spend a lot of time watching TV so improving the relevance of a...
Steve Jobs Not Quite So Enthusiastic About DRM-Free Video
from the halfway dept — While the world continues to digest yesterday's announcement that Apple will sell DRM-music from EMI, it's worth taking a look at Steve Jobs' comments from the event regardin...
The State of Technorati, April 2007
I typically issue the State of the Blogosphere report each quarter to give a glimpse into our data and what that may tell us about the global social media phenomenon. As many of you have pointed out,...
Vidmeter: Viacom Videos Were Only 2% of YouTube Views
Vidmeter Incorporated has published an in-depth study of the number and type of YouTube videos that have been removed at the request of copyright holders. Importantly, the study analyzes not only the...
EU price probe into Apple iTunes
The EU has launched a probe into what Apple's online music store iTunes charges users across Europe, accusing it of restricting customer choice. — Brussels believes agreements between Apple and reco...
Will Utah's New Trademark Bill Stop Competitive Keyword Buys?
Wow. Via Techdirt, news from the EFF that the Utah legislature has passed a Trademark Protection Act law preventing people from buying ads linked to terms that are also trademarks of others. The Tra...
Vonage hangs up on Verizon patent infringement with new agreement
Vonage has signed an agreement with a VoIP network services provider to carry calls placed by Vonage customers, giving the troubled VoIP provider an out on two of the three Verizon patents it was foun...
WiFi in the Sky: Airlines Prepare Cabin Hotspots
BlackBerrying, Web Surfing — Expected Aloft Within a Year; — Cellphone Service May Follow — The days when airplanes offer a hiatus from being connected to the office are numbered. — After year...
Blogger posts Windows Vista SP1 fixes on Web site
Hotfix.com owner says he's got the inside line on 100+ patches — The owner of a blog dedicated to software patches has posted online more than 100 fixes he said are expected to be included in Window...
Compete Introduces Attention Statistics
In an attempt to go beyond page views and visits, today web stats company Compete introduced "Attention metrics". The reason is that interactive Web page technologies such as Ajax and Flash - not to ...
Google's wrist slapped for "airbrushing history"
Wraith7nApr 3rd, 2007 - 11:54:35 — This is ridiculous. There is no law stating that Google must have up to date sattilite maps of an area. If they want to have older higher res pictures of an area...
The Impending Social Search Inflection Point
Online consumer information retrieval has reached another inflection point: A shift from pure algorithmic search to social search. Searchers have become increasingly sophisticated, and basic algorith...
Software lets you create cybertwin
If spending too much time online turns you into your evil twin, then it might be time for a "cybertwin." — An Australian upstart on Monday introduced MyCyberTwin, an early version of software that l...
Top 10 Reasons as to why I still need to be convinced about marketing on Second Life
I have been analyzing Second Life for months, but a great article in Brandweek titled "are marketers dying on Second Life?" prompted me to write this post. — Second Life is the Internet-based virtua...
SATELLITE STATIC
CARMEL GROUP THROWS WRENCH INTO SIRIUS/XM MERGER — The Carmel Group, the influential research firm whose analysis helped kill the 2003 merger of EchoStar and DirecTV, will release a new report today...
CrossPosted: 10 Things You Can Do With Mixed Media RSS
If you're already reading the SplashCast blog, and you really ought to, then you'll see this post there. I worked on it for quite awhile though, am quite proud of it, and wanted to post it here too. ...