It hasn’t received that much attention, but ICANN, the domain naming authority, is considering a proposal to lift price controls on .org, .info, and .biz domains. In essence, the registrars of these domains could charge what they think the market will bear. Ultimately, this could lead to a ...
Microsoft (MSFT) has been targeting Google’s (GOOG) lucrative web search (and search advertising) business for a while now, and doesn’t seem to have gained much ground. While search experts find MSN’s search results to be better than they were in the early stages of development, Google has held its ...
Microsoft [MSFT], after losing the MySpace advertising deal to Google [GOOG], has scored at Facebook, according to CNET News.com: Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal. This is a nice score for Microsoft, though hardly on the same scale as their rival’s MySpace deal. In the battle of social networking ...
Even as Google devises ever more clever algorithms for automating processes in novel ways, that company, Yahoo, and others are trying to put human intelligence to work in improving search. In Low-tech searches: you ask, someone answers, MSNBC.com republishes a Washington Post article that describes efforts underway to created ...
We’ve heard a lot about “user generated content” as part of the Web 2.0 discussion not to mention how wise crowds are, but one firm is taking these concepts to a new level. Ckrush, Inc. announced in their press release, Moviemaking Goes Virtual as Social Network Meets Hollywood, that ...
PC industry pundit John Dvorak turns his eye to social networks and forums in The Mystery of the Online Community, and wonders whether it’s possible to establish an online community without fakes and phonies. Dvorak speculates that in some communities more than half the members may be participating under ...
MySpace is a social networking juggernaut. At its current pace of signing up 250,000 new users a day, their only limit seems to be the number of people on the globe with some kind of computer access. Google has been a different kind of juggernaut, not only dominating ...
