Remember several months ago when both Google and Facebook decided to get into the URL shortening game We wondered if Bit.ly, the market leader, was f... read more »
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Google has just released a series of updates for their Google Maps Android application. Two of these updates are useful: Place page reviews and the ab... read more »
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Search engines like Bing and Google will swear up and down that their natural search results are determined by one thing and one thing only: the all-... read more »
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More than 9,000 square miles of U.S. federal Gulf waters are closed to commercial and recreational fishing today thanks to the BP oil spill. However,... read more »
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Beloved Q &' A site Quora has been spotty all day and is now showing a &''503 Service Unavailable&'' error message when we attempt to access the s... read more »
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Today on the Twitter blog, the company wrote a post that was all of three sentences to let people know about their new logos. Yay! But there&'s actua... read more »
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Last November, Google announced that it had acquired leading mobile ad network AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Today, less than a year after the d... read more »
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Microsoft just released better than expected Q1 earnings, posting first-quarter revenue of $16.2 billion, an 25% increase from the same period of th... read more »
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New York-baseda4sfile sharing site Drop.io has just posted the breaking news of its acquisition by Facebook on its company blog. This looks like it ... read more »
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MG earlier wrote a post about Twitter&'s rules regarding its trademarks, logos and so on. Here&'s what struck me, going over the guidelines: Naming y... read more »
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There&'s a lot of talk about how web apps and the cloud are heralding a new age of computing, but for the forseeable future many people are still goin... read more »
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Facebook has just sent us an invitation to a special event that&'s happening this Wednesday. The theme Mobile. We don&'t know what Facebook is planni... read more »
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Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month Then you&'ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was... read more »
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Project Diaspora. The open source Facebook-killa. You know the one. Developers got a taste of it last month. And the rest of us were supposed to get a... read more »
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YouTube has just announced that it has served its 500 millionth promoted video view. The video ad format, which the company launched a few years ago, ... read more »
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A quick disclosure: readers of my last book will be familiar with the story (which you can read here) of London-based entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith... read more »
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Last month, Yahoo SVP David Ku, who headed the company&'s advertising products group, left the company. Yahoo has been hemorrhaging talent lately a4... read more »
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When Google put their faith in Wave, an ambitious new project last year, they knew it was a gamble. But a big part of it was the team behind the proje... read more »
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California politics bloga4sCalitics has unearthed some interesting data about the $1 million in funding behind the recent round of television ads ... read more »
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