Yahoo-Google Deal Advances
Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter sai...
What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update
Red Hat is well known as a supplier of server systems, so the latest developments with our desktop products and technologies sometimes find themselves in the shade. It's time for an update on the cur...
20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber
as Web search, Udi Manber has been working on Web search. Previously a computer science professor at the University of Arizona, then a senior vice president at Amazon and Yahoo's chief scientist, Man...
Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features
If you love a good theory — of psychology, physics, economics, you name it — go work at SocialText. These guys live in their heads. That became apparent when I talked to founder Ross Mayfield and ne...
Lonelygirl15 and KateModern Creators Raise $5 million, Form EQAL
In June 2006, former medical student Miles Beckett and disgruntled lawyer Greg Goodfried teamed up with filmmaker Ramesh Flinders to launch Lonelygirl15, a fictional video journal series on YouTube th...
Best practices when moving your site
Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site's performance in Google search results? — Your aim is to make...
Aluminum MultiTouch MacBook, New MacBook Pro, and More
A MacRumors reader ran across a very unusual .Mac web page yesterday and was kind enough to forward it on. The page contained promotional images for Apple products, including a couple that are not ye...
MySQL reserves features for paying customers; open-source community up in arms
Blog posts by some users claim that database vendor is turning its back on open source — Computerworld) Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclos...
Brightcove: Paid Video Not Worth Our Time
Brightcove is discontinuing an option to have customers pay to rent or buy video, and will tell its publishers about the change on Wednesday. All paid video options will be zapped from Brightcove pub...