Net Neutrality Sounds Good in Theory Only
The new FCC Chairman, Julius Genchowski, is pushing hard for changes that will affect the internet forever. He recently introduced ”net neutrality rules”, that would prohibit Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner from acting as gatekeepers of content on the Web. Put another way it would force these broadband providers, private companies, to [...]
Facebook Chat Delivering Over 1 Billion Messages Per Day
Launched a little over a year ago (April 2008) Facebook chat has grown extremely fast and now delivers over a billion messages each and every day. That’s > 1,000,000,000.
Still behind the long running leaders, but gaining ground, and attention.
Source: Mashable
Internet sites could be given ‘cinema-style age ratings’
Did you know that Great Britain had a “Culture Secretary”? They do and his name is Andy Burnham.
In a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph, Culture Secretary Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. He plans to negotiate with Barack [...]
Partygaming Founder Dikshit Fined $300 Million
Dikshit’s company, Partygaming, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, has been ordered to pay the U.S. government $300 million in fines as part of a plea which let’s him off the hook less a few hundred mil.
The charges were as far as our Justice Department has gone to enforce our gambling laws. More [...]
Google Politics and Search Results
Call me a cynic but I have long suspected Google employees made sure their politically favorite Websites received better placement in their search results then their counterparts.
Google CEO, Eric E. Schmidt, is such a political animal that he is more interested in joining the Obama team then in working to grow Google. Most likely the [...]
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Be sure to watch the current featured video: Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us. It’s an interesting perspective on how the net is being built and fun to watch.
Crime Reports
Every so often a new tool comes along that makes you say “wow, the internet is awesome!”. Crime Reports is such a tool.
Using Google’s powerful mapping engine combined with input from local law enforcement agencies Crime Reports gives residents nearly real-time reports of all crimes reported in any geographic area selected in their neighborhood (or [...]
Cuil Versus Google
The ultimate David and Goliath scenario began to unfold on the battlefield yesterday as Cuil began offering it’s search engine to the public. What makes this battle more interesting then some of the others we’ve heard about is the fact that Cuil (pronounced “cool”) was started by several former Google engineers and Google has tried [...]
Google Keyword Tool Now Offers Search Volume
Google AdWords announced they’ve added keyword search volume data to their Keyword Tool.
Now, when you use the Google Keyword Tool to search for your relevant keywords, you’ll be able to see the approximate number of search queries performed on Google and their search network for these keywords. This gives advertisers a better idea of where [...]