Web Developments
AP Updates Attribution Guidelines, Links Not Mentioned
The Associated Press has revealed some new guidelines for its reporters with regards to credit and attribution. The guidelines come in the form of a letter from AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes. The guidelines apply to AP reports in print, broadcast, and online news, and stress the importance of giving proper attribution to other [...]
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Why Are People Searching Less Than They Were a Year Ago
Nielsen released its version of the U.S. search market rankings for July this week. Google is of course on top with 3 out of 5 searches (64.2%). Yahoo came in second with 14.3%, leaving Microsoft in third at 13.6%. Yahoo and Microsoft both gained in month-over-month share (2% and 4%, respectively). This is all good [...]
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Inside the Google Phonebooth, Apple Refuses to Show “Green” Rank
Today seems to be redesign day. Digg began rolling out its new redesign to all users (follow us here). MySpace introduced a redesign to profiles. In addition to these, UStream unveiled its own redesign with changes to the homepage as well as the dashboard. Guardian reports that Apple has refused to allow its iPhone to [...]
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LinkedIn Updates iPhone App
LinkedIn has announced the launch of LinkedIn for iPhone version 3.2, which the company says makes it easier to stay up to date and find important changes happening in your professional network. The app comes with some changes to how LinkedIn displays profile updates from connections. You can see more info about what changed from [...]
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Yahoo, CafeMom Understood To Be In Acquisition Talks
Millions of mothers may soon become much better acquainted with Yahoo. Rumor has it that CafeMom, the popular site aimed at female parents, is close to being acquired by the company, although the matter of price apparently remains a significant sticking point. According to Kara Swisher‘s anonymous sources, Yahoo’s prepared to pay 0 million. CafeMom [...]
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Cable TV Coming to the iPad, Twitter Gets a Movie Trailer
Rupert Murdoch’s not the only one with tablet fever. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least seven of the ten largest subscription-TV providers in the U.S. are building new tablet apps to offer TV content to subscribers. Some might even be free. The New York Times reports that Dell has been accused of withholding [...]
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Twitter Lures Sales Execs Away From Facebook, Yelp
Whatever company handles Twitter’s business cards should soon be tasked with printing a lot more batches. Twitter’s hired two people away from Facebook and Yelp, and these individuals will act as sales execs, establishing teams and presumably "meeting and greeting" lots of potential advertisers. Dan Coughlin, who spent more than a couple years at Facebook, [...]
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“Life In A Day” YouTube Project Receives 80K Videos
Anyone who was concerned that YouTube’s "Life in a Day" project would run short of footage can put that worry to rest. YouTube announced today that it received an almost incomprehensible number of submissions: 80,000 videos from 197 countries. That’ll provide director Kevin Macdonald, whose job it is to piece together a documentary showing what [...]
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BlackBerry Use Limited in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
BBC News reports that two Gulf states have announced bans on some BlackBerry functions based on security concerns. The United Arab Emirates will block sending emails, accessing the Internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets, while Saudi Arabia will prevent the use of Blackberry to Blackberry instant messaging. The Wall Street Journal posted [...]
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Google Getting Rid of Old Version of AdSense for Search
Google is retiring the old version of AdSense for Search and telling users to switch to the new version powered by Google Custom Search, which has been offered for a while. If you see "powered by Google" on the logo on the search results page, then you’re using the old one. In a post on [...]
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