Disney Ramping up the Ads 7/13/2007

The Walt Disney Company will make its popular "Toontown MMORPG" ad-supported towards the end of 2007, and will offer movie downloads in conjunction with Microsoft technology.

ALT- text Becoming Even More Important 7/13/2007

By properly labeling images that otherwise lack descriptive or any ALT-attribute text, screen-reader users can better understand the contents of displayed images on a given web page.

FTC not Neutral on 'Net Neutrality' Debate 7/7/2007

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its 'Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy' report and suggested some caution on enacting 'net neutrality' regulations.

Global Warming - Wilipedia's Number 1 search term 7/6/2007

Increased interest in "Global Warming" has brought Wikipedia tons of traffic. Wikipedia ranks first on both Google and Yahoo for that term.

Internet Radio Silence 6/27/2007

On June 26th, Internet Radio had its scheduled day of slilence to protest increasing royalty fees on Internet radio play.

New Search Engine to Compete with Google 6/18/2007

'Openads' recently received $5 million in startup funding to build a search advertising network. Some experts say, if done right, the reign of Google may be coming to an end.

Online Advertising Approaching $35 Billion 6/18/2007

In the US alone, online search and display advertising is estiamated to reach $35 billion dollars annually. Google maintains the lion's share of this new-era profit machine, while smaller facilitators get the multi-million dollar scraps.

eBay Tools 6/14/2007

eBay's Alan Lewis discussed the "San Demas" project, code name for eBay's desktop application available in invitation-only beta version. Lewis says the desktop application will allow 'eBayers' to do what they do on eBay's site without using a web browser – for example, managing, bidding, taking payments, etc.

People Will Click on Anything 6/14/2007

In a recent experiment, a text-link ad on Google's Adwords network read 'Get Infected Here', and was successfully clicked 409 times by curious websters. This shows the mindset of many web users and the reason for the success of spam... people will click on anything.

Mobile Search 6/10/2007

Google, Digg, Delicious, and Flickr are examples of search engines with simplicity. Mobile search will have to be even simpler including voice recognition to avoid hunting and pecking on the phone keypad. Mobile search as it develops may resemble 411 directory assistance say many experts.

Social Network Sites are Coming 10/12/2006

Social network sites are actively working to improve their internal search capabilities and provide a rich user experience for their members. Search giants such as Google, Yahoo and MSN must accelerate their social search efforts or they may be left out of the search game that they now dominate. Search giants must step it up or they will get left behind.

Adobe Releases Contribute 4 10/09/2006

Abobe's simple web authoring software now enables Contribute users an easier method of creating blogs.

Internet Crime Surpasses Traditional Burglary 10/09/2006

"Get Safe Online" reports that People are more fearful now of Internet crime and Identity theft than other more mundane crimes like burglary.

Google to Buy YouTube? 10/09/2006

Speculation has been born that Google has set its sites on YouTube for a whopping 1.6 Billion dollars. So far, unsubstantiated.

Google Patents New Search Methods - 9/20/2006

A patent entitled 'Multiple Index Based Information Retrieval System' submitted by Google seeks to enhance and grow the Internet's favorite search engine to 100 billion pages or more. Two main features of this new method involve the ability to index a much larger quantity of documents then ever before, and more enhanced methods for versioning documents.

New Search Marketing -9/15/2006

Social Media Optimization (SMO) the new fangled method of enhancing web content through using public media web outlets like Myspace, Youtube, etc., to publish video and other marketing information.

Going Phishing? -9/12/2006

Fraudulent Web sites which attempt to fool people into handing over sensitive personal information (known as phishing sites)-- had a 18% increase from May to July, reported the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Despite continuous efforts to quell the crooks, Internet fraud continues to rise.

Napster Pushing Mobile Music Service -9/12/2006

Napster is offering free MP3 players to customers in the U.K with a minimum 3 month sign-up period for their music download services. The idea stems from cell-phone companies and their free phone offers. Will Apple give away free iPods to? Doubtful.

Does Microsoft® have Yahoo® in its sites? -9/8/2006

Analysts are speculating that a major buyout is in the near future. Yahoo seems to fit the niche that Microsoft needs to fill for company growth. But, this is all mere speculation.

Microsoft® Vista™ may slow things down -9/8/2006

The launch of Vista brings some reservations from Internet gurus that the DNS system may get bogged down. This means slow connections and possible Internet brownouts. Some experts disagree.

Video Commercials on the Web -9/7/2006

Now television-style video commercials are popping up on websites without user consent. Yuck!

Google AdWords® Goes Mobile -9/7/2006

Google has made AdWords available on mobile devices adding a new dimension to potential clicks! Mobile customers can now place marketng messages and click-able links on Google's mobile search service.

Apple goes for Intel -9/6/2006

Apple Computer® announces the use if Duo core Intel®chips in their new iMac line.

Online Fraud, an 8 Billion Dollar Industry -9/6/2006

Consumer Reports' 2006 'State of the Net survey' indicated that over 8 billion dollars was lost to online scams over the past two years. Experts in the anti-spam world debated over which method was more effective in protecting users, blocking or filtering.

The blocking technique uses what is called 'challenged-response'; that is, any email is blocked until the sender responds to an email that is immediately sent on the recipients behalf asking the sender to identify themselves for approval. Other experts state that this type of blocking seriously limits the usefulness of email where as only people who know each other before hand can communicate..

[Editorial] Ultimately anti-spam will only be successful by informing the public and educating people so that they do not get ripped off. Blocking the email impairs the Internet usefulness and handicaps its users.

Google Makes News History -9/6/2006

Google News™ has added the interesting feature of searching through old archived newspapers dating back 200 years.