MySpace Application Platform now in the open

Seeded on Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:19 AM EDT (WidgetsLab)

No more waiting, no more limits, no more hype, MySpace Application platform is finally launched and things look promising for those interested in taking a bite at it, be to port Facebook apps and Widget-Apps into Myspace Apps with Opensocial support or if you want to level up cur …

google, technology, market, platform, myspace, app, widget

Heathline Announces Personalized Search Engine

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:03 AM EDT (AltSearchEngines)

Healthline, today introduced Aetna SmartSource, the first-ever personalized search engine that mines information from Aetna's vast data resources to deliver meaningful, personalized health and health benefits information to Aetna members.

health, information, search-engine, resource, personalization

eMarketer Analysis on Widgets Spread in Social Networks

Seeded on Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:21 AM EST (WidgetsLab)

As with any new industry to enter the web,widgets have been under the spotlight pretty much everywhere, from newspapers to all kind of blogs that have embraced them just this year as they have gained more and more of place in common internet use.

technology, community, blogging, widget, social-network

A Year in Review - Ad Agencies Acquired

Seeded on Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:00 AM EST (MarketingPilgrim)

Yesterday marked yet another acquisition of an advertising agency, and perhaps one of the last of 2007. This year has brought so many acquisitions, and big news such as Google getting the federal go-ahead to buy DoubleClick.

google, business, aol, 2007, ad-agency, quigo, doubleclick

Review: Sony GC1 Net-Sharing Cam

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:49 AM EST (PaulStamatiou)

Sony recently targeted the young YouTube/video-blogger crowd with their $149 (sans memory stick) GC1 Net-Sharing Cam.

technology, sony, video, cam, youtube

AdSense Ad Review Center Announced

Seeded on Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:08 AM EST (Google Blogoscoped)

Google will be rolling out a feature called Ad Review Center to AdSense accounts over the coming months, they announced.

google, technology, adsense, ad-review-center

How To: Quickly Sleep Your MacBook

Seeded on Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:16 AM EST (PaulStamatiou)

By default, recent Macs ship with their hibernate mode set such that when your Mac goes to sleep, contents of the RAM remain stored in the powered-on RAM in addition to written to the hard disk.

technology, mac, ram, safe-sleep

Googling Beyond the Grave

Seeded on Fri Dec 7, 2007 9:24 AM EST (MarketingPilgrim)

If you've ever done basic genealogy online, you know that Google can be used to find the dead. But did you know that Google can find the "un"dead? (No, I don't mean zombies.)

google, technology, dead, genealogy

Post-Thanksgiving sales up 18% over last year

Seeded on Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:51 AM EST (MarketingPilgrim)

A comScore report shows that online spending for the week after Thanksgiving was over $4 billion, which is 18% higher than the same week last year. The heaviest day was the Monday after Thanksgiving with $733 million.

business, comscore, online-spending

Webwise: little tricks that make it good to Google

Seeded on Tue Jun 5, 2007 9:21 AM EDT (The Times)

Clever though Google is, dozens of other search engines, such as Yahoo! and Ask, do a similar job. Many specialist engines cover areas such as medicine and law, and can offer better results.

technology, web-search-engine, google-alternative, search-syntax

Child Friendly Search Visualization

Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2007 9:58 AM EDT (Max Kiesler)

Making web search intuitive for kids - is form more important than matter?

technology, kids, web-search, visual-interface

Google Killer - A Search Engine Based On Tags?

Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:03 AM EDT (KillerStartups.com)

Quintura's lay out, its visual method of relaying search results and related info makes sense. It's much easier to handle then just plain Google type listings. Not only does it find the data you need it also helps you expand your ideas and research by providing related tags.

business, techology, vizualization, killer-startup, web-search-engine