When people gather, conversations are bound to happen. And while people may be gathering and chatting in Web-based IM interfaces like GTalk, Facebook Chat, and MySpace Chat, that user base is relatively insignificant compared to the untold millions of others who live and breathe in online communities outside those walled gardens.
Meebo, the…
Tired of sitting patiently by, refreshing your server logs, while you wait for the Googlebot to show up at your site?
So is Google. That’s why they provide tools based on the GData API that allow site owners – especially those owners managing hundreds of sites – to submit content directly to Google, making indexing quicker, easier, and more…
When in doubt, follow the leader. That’s what MySpace seems to be doing with the release of MySpace MyAds, a service that – on the surface – appears to have a great deal in common with another successful ad model, Google AdWords.
Like Google’s ad platform, the new MySpace ad platform allows anyone to establish an account and begin targeting ads to…
With a US presidential campaign in full swing and a current president at his term limit, the world is prepared for changes in Washington, DC. But abandoning Microsoft Office?
Enter the dark horse Google Apps – the new platform for day-to-day business operations in DC – now that Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of…
OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID.
But JanRain is hoping to change that…
Using services like Google Maps and Google Earth has changed the way people interact with geography, compare notes with neighbors, and find their way from here to there.
Still, for all the beauty of Google’s directions, “street view,” and “search nearby,” the top-down views of our world have always been a bit fuzzy and squint-inducing. Until…
Today, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of David Kernell, the 20-year old son of a Tennessee state representative, on allegations of hacking vice-presidential-candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account.
The indictment alleges that Kernell gained access to Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account, changed the password, took screenshots…
If it’s online, Google is going to find a way to derive advertising revenue from it. So, it was only a matter of time before Google found its way into online gaming, a market where the term “billions” is regularly thrown around by even the most conservative analysts.
Today, Google announced the launch of Google AdSense for Games, a flavor of…
Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook and Microsoft were in the headlines when the Redmond, Washington-based software giant outlasted Google in a bidding war to garner a $240 million stake in Facebook. It was that investment that pegged Facebook’s valuation at a whopping $15 billion.
In July of this year—following a generous amount of…
Google has improved any number of the Web activities in which we engage during the day. But what about those activities that occur late at night? Like firing off that email at 3 AM on Sunday morning after a night out?
If Jon Perlow has his way, Google may be able to save you from that moment of regret, too.
Today, the old real estate adage ‘location, location, location’ could just as easily be applied to the Web, where it seems that “where you are” is becoming as important as the information you’re seeking.
Nowhere is that more apparent than with GPS-enabled mobile platforms that use location-specific information to simplify the way people access…