Ask Shuffles Management
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com since April 2006, has left the company to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm. Lanzone will be replaced by former Match.com CEO Jim Safka, who has been leading IAC’s venture capital arm, Primal Ventures, since April. He will retain that role as well. Lanzone had [...]
Microsoft Offers $1.2 Billion For Norwegian Search Company
They may not have Google’s market share but Microsoft does not seem to be stopping its acquisition of more properties in the search space, having offered $1.2 billion for Norwegian company, Fast Search and Transfer, according to the New York Times. The Olso-based company “is a specialist in search technology used inside companies and government [...]
Facebook Limits Applications’ Sneakiness
Facebook applications can be bad enough when they’re upfront about their identities; getting tricked into installing them is the last thing (aside from various privacy violations) that any user needs. So Facebook is addressing this problem with some new restrictions on developers. read more More: continued here facebook limits applications sneakiness
An Open Letter to Google Engineering: Please Slow Down a Little
We really do love your software. And we appreciate the fact that you introduce valuable new features so frequently. But please: slow down a little, and spend a bit more time on bug testing. In the time-honored model of software development (call it “pre-Web 1.0″), teams of programmers worked for years to craft scores of [...]
Search Headlines & Links: December 12, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: Putting the “Social” in Social Media MarketingReaching out to bloggers and building a relationship with them can go a long [...]
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13
Links for 2007-12-12 [del.icio.us]: Simple Thoughts – Java Great blog with tons of wordpress help.. http://tinyurl.com/2k4hw2 # New Article – Affiliate Marketing Using PCDBA Posted By : Tommy Stephens: An article d.. http://tinyurl.com/2nm8g6 # Studying the various weight loss products Posted By : Robert Baird: According to researchers, an al.. http://tinyurl.com/25kfgj # Surgical procedures for [...]
Facebook Applications and Promoting Your Site
One of the interesting frontiers in the market today is the role that widgets and/or Facebook Applications (and soon OpenSocial applications) can play in your overall marketing strategy, and, of course, how this will impact your search marketing strategy. To dive into this a bit deeper, I spoke recently with the Greg Spector, co-founder of [...]
Yahoo UK Socializes Applications With Bebo
Yahoo services Answers and Music joined social networking site Bebo to tap its popularity with users in the United Kingdom.While Facebook’s platform and Google’s Open Social have drawn some lines, at least among bloggers, Yahoo has quietly sidestepped both of them in favor of a relationship with Bebo. The social media network site deployed search [...]
AOL Brightens Up Its Desktop
A new version of AOL Desktop bundles tabbed browsing, multiple email account management, and an “App Map” of all open application windows within the environment.The all in one software package called AOL Desktop claimed it organizes one’s online life. Several useful features aimed toward that goal help the individual on Windows XP or Vista do [...]
H3tec “Gaining Traction” on Google Deal
Utah-based H3tec has spent years developing its new technology, which can detect any element or compound up to two miles away. But it looks like this new technology is going to pay off in other dividends as well. After running a full-page ad in USAToday in October, they’re currently “gaining traction” on a deal with [...]
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