Advertising Details of Twitter Ad Platform Emerge Peter Kafka of All Things Digital has come out with some more details, which he says come from "people who have been briefed by the company", about Twitter's expected advertising platform. According to Kafka, the platform will be primarily search based, distributed via third-party applications and will appear in the familiar 140 character tweet… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Trends Chatroulette Clones: A New Market for Random Connections If you haven't yet heard of Chatroulette, the webcam shuffle site that connects you with random people from around the world, then it's time to crawl out from under that rock where you've apparently been hiding. This viral sensation, created by a 17-year-old Russian programmer, lets you flip through video chat sessions with anonymous strangers… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Multi-factor Authentication and the Cloud High profile security breaches into cloud-based applications like GMail and Google Apps serve to remind us that when people and companies stores all their information "out there" then security measures are of critical importance. In most cases the security breaches are "front door" attacks where a hacker has exploited a weak password or the… Tim Hastings View comments
Google Google Street View Hits a Speed Bump in Europe Google is having a hard time in Europe these days. Whether its employees are being convicted of violating privacy laws in Italy or it's being accused of copyright infringement in Germany, the company is facing opposition wherever it goes. Now, the company that has set out to digitize everything from ocean bottoms to outer space has received a… Mike Melanson View comments
mobile Location-Based Services: Hype or Hit? Earlier this week, Juniper Research published a report which said the market for location-based services (think mobile check-in games like Foursquare, social networks like Loopt, location-enabled apps like Google Maps, etc.) will bring in revenues of more than $12.7 billion by 2014. Spurring this growth are a number of factors, including the… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments