YouTube has made a step towards emulating Facebook, the social networking site for educational institutions. It has introduced Colleges on YouTube.
The new channel has many Facebook features like -
* Closed communities for students, staff, and...
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Google had been kicking publishers out of their AdSense program on flimsy grounds. The standard reason it gives is fraudulent clicks on its ads. If you ask Google, they would say - Due to the proprietary nature of our monitoring system, we're not able...
This will come as welcome news to many, including yours truly. The news is that Google is now offering scanned books in PDF format for free downloading though Google Book Search. Google announced this yesterday.
If you want to download one, you have to...
VoIP company Verizon has dropped the controversial DSL surcharge that it started levying on customers along with BellSouth. Actually, the surcharge was an attempt to make up for the USF that the VoIP companies started fulfilling from August 01 in line...
The shocking news is that search industry pundit Danny Sullivan has quit Search Engine Watch as well as Search Engine Strategies. This has aroused some serious conversations all over. Why is this sudden decision to quit something what had been his...
There had been a lot of talk recently on the possibility of MySpace launching a magazine in collaboration with Nylon. Many in the blogosphere made fun of the whole idea.
Now, irony of ironies, teen magazines are dropping hardcopy versions of their...
Techcrunch started its CrunchBoard and Om Malik added a job board to in his highly popular GigaOm last Friday. They are not the only blogs to have launched job boards. paidContent.org started it sometime back and some famous names like Alarm:Clock and ...
A few days back Google rolled out its application tools for small to medium enterprises. Om Malik rejected this latest plethora of freebies from Google because he didn't like Google's privacy disclosure for this.
However, Steve Bryant has an interesting...
Evan Williams, the CEO of Odeo, has an interesting post on the 'value' of pageviews w.r.t. a site. He argues that pageviews and hit counts have become obsolete, as they don't tell you much.
He sites the example of the Odeo homepage and says that one...
BBC has launched a new local blog called The BBC Manchester Blog. It is a community site that is designed to promote a local blogging network by aggregating content. Is it then BBC's new initiative on cultivating the benefits from interactivity or get...
Kevin Rose has woken up to enforcing Digg's trademark. Reason Kevin gives is that if Digg doesn't do this, other sites would start using it and hence, there is a possibility that Digg might lose its name.
Kevin doesn't want those websites already using...
Google has started to market components of what will be its Office 2.0. It is actually Google Apps for your domain. Google Apps are actually a set of tools targeted to small to medium enterprises. The service provides Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar...
The Economist has a very insightful article on the slackness of newspapers when it comes to making progress with the Internet. It says that the newspapers are either too timid, defensive or high-minded.
It takes the case of the success story of the...
At 31, Marissa Mayer is a heroine. She is a grand success story in Google and one of the most recognized face in the business world. The brain and force behind Google News and the site's primary-colour home page is going to deliver a speech today on the...
Fred Stutzman in his analytical post about Digg has made a curious observation indeed. We have seen strong evidence about the Digg gangs and Digg mafia, and it is no longer democratic by the way it is run now.
However, what I would like to point out...
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