Archive for October, 2006

Canada To Discontinue Print Edition Of The TV Guide

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

You know that the internet is changing the way business is being done when the TV Guide in Canada has decided to discontinue the print edition of their magazine after 50 years. Over the last four years their readership has suffered a swift decline, going from 430,000 to 243,000. "The ...

Google Releases Personalized Search Engine

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Google is always working on new and innovative ways to search the internet and this time they brewed up their personalized search engine. It's being called the Google Custom Search Engine and allows users or organizations to group websites they wish to access in one handy format. ...

Launch Pad Workshop Taking Place At Web 2.0 Conference

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

If you're interested in the internet and the breakout of Web 2.0 companies, you might be interested in the Web 2.0 Conference being sponsored by O'Reilly and CMP Technologies. This conference takes place November 7-9, 2006 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. At 2 PM on November 7, 2006, 13 ...

YouTube Pulls Nearly 30,000 Copyright Violations From Servers

Friday, October 20th, 2006

It's hard to say what the future holds for Youtube and their concerns about copyright laws, but today the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers made the popular video sharing website remove almost 30,000 video clips that were published without permission. These clips included music videos and ...

Yahoo! Reports Lowered Earnings For Q3 2006

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

It's hard to believe that it's earning season again and it's time to count the numbers. Yahoo! was the first of the major search companies to release their earnings for Q3 2006 and the numbers were "disappointing." Terry Schemel, Yahoo's chairman, reported a 38% drop in Q3 profits and dimmed ...

Google And IBM Keynote Speakers at Web 2.0 - Implications for your Business

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

If you have a half a day available and happen to be in the Santa Monica, CA area you might want to consider attending the Web 2.0 - Implications For your business conference which takes place on Thursday October 26,2006. The conference runs from 3:00-8:30 PM at the Doubletree hotel. ...

Is Napster The Next Buyout Opportunity?

Monday, October 16th, 2006

There has been a lot of to-do about Google acquiring Youtube.com in a multi billion dollar deal, and now there's talk that Napster might be the next in line to get absorbed by a much larger company. According to an analyst named Darren Aftahi from ThinkEquity, Napster is in a ...

Google Adsense Adds EFT Payments For More Publishers

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Good news for Google adsense publishers in the Czech Republic, Finland, and Slovakia. Google has just started offering EFT (Electronic Fund Transfers) to make payments directly into your bank account. If you are a publisher located in these countries, you can sign up for EFT payments here. This eliminates the waiting for ...

Mobile And Web TV Could Be Huge

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Video has been exploding on the internet, as the recent acquisition of YouTube by Google indicates. More people are getting their video content from sources other than traditional TV, and that trend hasn't been lost on Anne Sweeney of Disney. As a matter of fact, she's incredibly bullish ...

The Role Of Social Websites In Modern Elections

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Everyone can realize just how big the social networking websites have gotten. MySpace is nearly ubiquitous now. So it's no surprise that the role of social websites in politics is increasing. The chance of going viral with a political message of some sort has to be appealing ...