Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
"EBay, which has faced slower growth in its core auction business over the last few years, said it will buy the Bill Me Later payments service for about $820 million in cash and $125 million in options."
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | yesterday
"At some level, you can control the public discourse from Wikipedia," Byrne says. "No matter what journalists say about the reliability of Wikipedia, they still use it as a resource."
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | yesterday
"With this upgrade Ask.com, owned by IAC, is also aiming to recapture the functionality that gave it its prominence during its heyday: the ability for people to type in queries in natural language."
Nick Bradburry (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’ve been adding support for tagging to FeedDemon, and I wanted to pass the new features by FeedDemon customers to see if I’m missing anything. The way it works so far is that FeedDemon’s “Subscriptions Home” report now includes a list of tags you’ve used, as shown in the screenshot below ( click to enlarge ): Clicking one of these tags displays a newspaper showing all posts you’ve added that tag...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Like its metallic namesake, Google's browser named Chrome attracted a lot of attention at first, then seemed to lose its shine and fall out of favor. Still, Hitwise found a surprising side effect of Chrome's introduction, and Matt Cutts believes that it's solid in most fundamental senses. read more
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you’re a pup like I am—31’s still a pup, right'—you might remember reading about Moller’s flying car of the future in the Weekly Reader back in 1989-ish. By the year 2000, so the story went (I remember it vividly—the excitement was overwhelming), millionaires would be buzzing around in these Jetson-esque flying cars, and by 2010 or so an average schmuck like me could grab one for probably around...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are all at very different stages of corporate life, and often don't focus on the same things. All of the companies have expressed an interest in the mobile market, however, and so as marketers consider matching this, a session at SMX East was called "Search and the iPhone." read more
WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday, we reported on Bankaholic , a blog written by Johns Wu, being sold for $15 million to BankRate . read more
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A common practice among social networking sites is to ask users to import their contacts from one of the big email service providers (e.g. Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail or Gmail) as part of the sign up process. This is often seen as a way to bootstrap the user's social network on the site by telling the user who in their email address book is also a user of the site they have just joined. However, there is...
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Nick O'Neil of AllFacebook.com recently posted a blog entry entitled The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead where he wrote As a joke I created the Bush Countdown Clock when the platform launched and amazingly I attracted close to 50,000 users. While the application was nothing more than a simple flash badge, it helped a lot of people express themselves. Expression is not Facebook’s purpose though,...
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
"The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the Department of Justice,"
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Easy to understand might be part of easy to maintain, but I separated it out as many of us (myself included) "sin" in this regard. Superfluous markup, hacks, lack of comments, .., Now current browsers in use out there include IE6 and IE7. Both are potential horrors and they can't be ignored due to their market share. Conditional comments to make them work are your best possible option. Make sure not...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
I'm going to be blunt here. The press coverage of the Gawker layoff memo is facinating in that they believe everything they are told and then proudly write about it! Nick Denton wrote an "internal" memo to his staff announcing 19 layoffs because of his prediction that the economy is going down the tubes. It's not only strange that Nick makes this public but the press reports it without any questioning...
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
For a hot, pre-IPO startup I'm surprised that Facebook seems to be going through an exodus of co-founders (how many do they have?) and well-respected key employees. Just this year alone we've seen the following exits Adam D'Angelo (former CTO and co-founder) Matt Cohler (former VP of Product Management and one of the first five emploees of the company) Ben Ling (former Director of Platform Product...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
You don’t see a lot of traditional advertising from Google . Their philosophy is to build great products and develop amazing technology and let it sell (and support) itself. Their marketing strategy has relied mostly on word of mouth - and its worked well. It just may not be enough for a company their size. read more
