All Entries Tagged With: "networks"
New Hitwise Report Exposes Twitter Trouble
Sorry, Twitter fans (and animal lovers), but you’d better brace yourselves for another round of (hopefully Photoshopped) pics featuring birds in cats’ mouths and squashed against glass doors.
Google Labs Rolling Out Social Search Experiment
At Wednesday’s Web 2.0 Summit Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience. announced the company will be launching a social search experiment in the coming weeks, Information Week reported . The experiment will be done through Google Labs and will need a Google account and a Google Profile to work. Information from a person’s various social media will be included in the results given for searches. They will appear at the bottom of the search page, Cnet reported
Google & Bing Annouce Real Time Search Deals With Twitter
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How Search Engines Might Expand Abbreviations in Queries
When visitors to search engines use abbreviations or expand abbreviations in their searches, it’s possible that they might be missing out on some pages worth visiting. For example, use Yahoo to search for [NASA Moon bombing] and compare the results to a search for [National Aeronautics and Space Administration moon bombing] and you’ll see some very
YouTube: Not So Stupid?
This year, we’ve seen a lot of pessimistic estimates of YouTube’s operating losses . While the site does bring in some advertising revenue, they haven’t quite covered that $1.65B price tag yet. And based on bandwidth costs, various analysts have estimated annual operating losses of anywhere from $470M to $175M . Note that the more conservative estimate here still includes a bandwidth bill of nearly $50M
Understanding Online Ad Networks: A Web Publishers Guide
Looking for more information about online ad networks and how they could help you increase your online ads revenues? In this MasterNewMedia guide, professional online publishers will find the best resources, tips, strategy and advice to make better sense and use of online ad networks. Photo credit: orson An ad network is essentially a third-party service that acts like an intermediary between your web site and advertisers. Via the ad network you as a web publisher can connect with a large pool of advertisers who want to promote online their products or services. When advertisers serve you ads, impressions and click on the ads can both generate revenues that are shared between you and the ad network, which in turn compensates the advertiser. Using an ad network does not force you to run only ads served by the ad network
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens – Oct 17 09
In this issue of Media Literacy Digest , open education advocate George Siemens , reports on this week most interesting breakthroughs, events, new media technologies and on the social impact these have on society, work and learning. Photo credit: Anatoly Vartanov Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Decentralized Work: The Final Frontier – Consider work. Many people are now involved in work that does not require physical presence at an office. Yet, how we define and value work still carries the views from 50+ years ago. Value of Visual Thinking – Resources such as this – the value of visual thinking – are helpful in increasing my guilt and sense of inadequacy with visuals and increasing my desire to continue improving how I communicate. A Few Web 2.0 Resources – Microsoft and web 2.0 resources (via Stephen Downes ) I am not sure how Microsoft defines web 2.0 – not much in the list that fits my definition. However, still a number of useful resources
5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives
Soren Gordhamer writes and consults on ways we can more creatively and effectively use the technologies of our age, including social media. He is the author of “Wisdom 2.0″ (HarperOne, 2009). You can follow him on Twitter at @SorenG . It is hard to know sometimes how our life has changed until we stop for a moment and look at how different it is from ten or even five years ago
Nokia reports loss on NSN write-down, sales fall
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Nokia swung to a 559 million euro ($836 million) loss in the third quarter, after taking write-downs of 1.17 billion euros, mostly on a 908 million euro impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks, and a 20% drop in sales to 9.81 billion euros. Excluding one-time items, it would’ve earned 0.17 euros a share, topping consensus estimates. It expects 2009 phone volumes across the mobile industry to drop 7%, which isn’t as steep as the 10% decline it earlier predicted. Nokia shares slumped 4.7% after the report. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news
Microsoft Investors Finally Get a Good Deal from EU Regulators
Dennis Byron submits: In reading about the almost Microsoft ( MSFT ) agreement with the European Union (EU) announced October 7, I feel Microsoft investors have finally gotten a good deal from the EU regulators. The mounting opposition to the deal is my proof-point. Just as the Opera ( OPESF.PK ) company executives that started the anti-Microsoft browser complaint in EU now feel chained to an EU Competition Commission (EUCC) boat anchor being thrown overboard by Neelie Kroes’ abandoning ship, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) executives are also worried by what looks like a done-deal agreement between Kroes and Steve Ballmer . The oddly named European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) is supposedly against it but has not posted a formal statement. [It's oddly named in that the leading members of the "European Committee" appear to be the North-American-domiciled corporations Adobe ( ADBE ), Corel, IBM , Oracle ( ORCL ), Real Networks, Red Hat ( RHT ) and Sun ( JAVA ).] Complete Story






