Less than two weeks after Google acquired Zingku, a mobile social network, they announce that Google has acquired Jaiku. The name isn’t the only similarity between the two recent purchases. Like Zingku, Jaiku is designed to appeal to ... Go to Full Article

Back on July 4th, I wrote about Intel’s Mash Maker, which was featured in a paper presented at SIGMOD’07 in June, and was coming out in a private beta release in July. Robert Ennal, one of the paper’s authors was kind enough to send me ... Go to Full Article

Posted by rebecca. As Rand mentioned in his Rewriting the Beginner's Guide post, he and I will be speaking at SMX Social Media next Monday and Tuesday. Once again, I will be speaking on the Linkbait panel with my buddies Brent Csutoras ... Go to Full Article

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I am great believer in Special Offers for one reason and one reason alone, special offers create buzz! As with anything the word moderation should be used; if you over cook an idea you will lose the flavour. I have the same belief with ... Go to Full Article

By Roderick Ioerger. image The newspaper industry has been feeling a lot of pressure for some time now to reverse the industry trend and restore revenue growth. In November of 2006 Yahoo and a consortium of seven newspaper companies ... Go to Full Article

By Vinny Lingham. image ReachLocal announced today that they have received a further round of funding by Rho Ventures, in conjunction with their original investors. The latest round of funding is $55.2m–which values the company at $305m ... Go to Full Article

A former manager who sued Google for age discrimination will get another day in court. Brian Reed is 54 and claims a supervisor told him his opinions were “too old to matter,” and that he was forced out of his job. ... Go to Full Article

The New York Times ran a piece on the social networking site StumbleUpon yesterday. StumbleUpon has 3.5 million registered users. They start with the idea that StumbleUpon gives people recommended web sites based on their interests ... Go to Full Article

One of the techniques I use to get keyword ideas is to look at what other spam sites out there are doing. Quite frequently, they’ll have a sitemap that links to all of their pages and their homepage, of course, links to that sitemap. ... Go to Full Article

Last week we reported the testing of AdSense ads with YouTube content. Today, Google officially launches its new YouTube “video units”, allowing web content owners to display video content complete with AdSense. Here’s how it works… ... Go to Full Article

Lots of buzz this morning surrounding a curious message that appeared at the bottom of Charlie O’Donnell’s Twitter conversation. twitter-ads. Could it be that Twitter is testing users’ reactions to adding small text messages to their ... Go to Full Article

This past week has been pretty Amazing. Meeting Marcus of Mediadonis and hanging out in Munich was a blast; he knows his shit and he’s “good people”. When we weren’t baffling Adreas, the Poker Stars Affiliate Manager, with our Internet ... Go to Full Article

After a much delayed flight, I finally made it to Las Vegas last night. After a restful night’s sleep at the Rio, I’m ready for the WebTrends Engage conference. Still, even a comfortable bed couldn’t stop me from rising at 6am to bring ... Go to Full Article