Archive for August, 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
After hearing some not so pleasant feedback on their decision to close their video division, Google has come up with a different way to end relations with subscribers of the video service.
Here is Google's new plan:
* Issuing a full refund -- as a credit card ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Time warner was the latest company to join into the heady shoppers for online advertising businesses. Federal regulators recently approved the purchase of Tacoda.
Tacoda provides targeted ads based on a web surfers browsing habits. They are based in New York.
Terms of the purchase weren't disclosed and the company will become ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Just like many other betas that Google has ran, Google Video is the latest beta program to get the ax. Subscribers that paid money to access videos to rent or own via this service received the following statement concerning the closure of the video service.
As a ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
In an unprecedented event, social networking website Myspace.com and MTV will host a number of Presidential discussions between U.S. presidential candidates and Internet viewers simultaneously.
This is the first large scale collaboration project between News Corp., owner of Myspace and Viacom, owner of MTV.
Members of the viewing MTV audience will ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Google recently released a new application in their Google Earth program called "Sky in Google Earth" which allows computer users to use their computer as a telescope to explore the Universe with the help of Coonabarabran's Siding Springs Observatory in northern New South Wales.
Sky in Google Earth gives people access ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
A move to monetize additional storage space on GMail and Picasso was a sign for Hotmail to increase the amount of storage space for their users - for free!
They are increasing mail storage from 2GB to 5GB. For an annual subscription price of $10.99 Hotmail users can increase their mail ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Not one to rest on their laurels, Google recently announced that they were testing some different ad serving platforms.
I actually noticed an occurrence or two of these ad formats on a website I visit. Unfortunately, I didn't screen capture them, but if I happen to see them again I'll ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Big news out of Microsoft today. They just announced their biggest deal ever and are buying online advertising company aQuantive in a 6.5 billion dollar deal.
aQuantive will assume responsibility for all of Microsoft's advertising platforms to compete with Google and other online advertising programs.
"Today we take a significant ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
Google recently announced that they are adding the city of Houston to their roster of Streetviews. This new feature at Google Maps allows web visitors to take a look at pictures that were snapped by cars and vans equipped with Google cameras as they drove down local streets.
Of ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Believe it or not, even the most generous internet company can't keep giving away everything but the kitchen sink away for free.
Google recently announced that they are going to start charging users for extra storage space in their Gmail and Picasa photo storage programs. People that want an additional ...
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