The NY Times Bits (technology section) gives a quick summary on the launch of IE 8, it’s features and the nostalgia of the browser wars.
In the meantime, The Register points out some clunky and annoying issues with Microsofts interoperability promise (WebMonkey too) … and how XP users with Service Pack 3 installed, being locked in [...]
Archive > August 2008
IE 8.. now out in Beta2
Google… how to strengthen presence in Japan?
This very interesting report by TechCrunch highlights Google’s approach to entering the Japanese market via the backdoor… if one can call it that. Mobile networks and more importantly the use of the Mobile/cellphone in Japan has always been recognised to be the leading edge in mobile technology from the innovative insight of NTT DoCoMo… to [...]
Google to display bottom-of-the-page ads?
SearchEngine land reports what seems to be Google testing displaying more ads on their page. It seems the slow growth of ad revenue at Google and the decrease in traffic beyond the first page, is forcing Google to consider displaying yet more ads on the page.
The article links to some screenshots and comments by Stephan [...]
YouTube Monetization and Background advertising…
TechCrunch and SilliconAlley Insider are both reporting (here and here) that YouTube is about to launch homepage ads as a technique to generate some revenue and monetize, what in my view is the most popular web product on the internet.
A couple of interesting points..
- The claimed cost for a homepage ad is stated to be [...]
Google…changes to Video results in listings?
SearchEngine Land reports that Google has been testing presenting Videos differently within the organic listings…
As part of their Universal Search project, Google presents different media and channel results within their organic listings… when 2 videos were returned these would often sit above each other and push down the organic indexed results. As per this article, [...]
Steve Jobs Dead?
This has got to be one of the biggest mishaps in online publishing…
Bloomberg publishes their premature obituary of Steve Jobs on their homepage today… have a laugh here.
Mozilla Ubiquity
In an interesting move from Mozilla Labs… they’ve developed the Ubiquity plug-in for the FireFox browser. The aim? to make interacting with the web easier and more intuitive. What’s most interesting about it is that it’ll rely on users inputting command lines…
Is this a sign of the world to come, have we been so inundated [...]
Google Bias on Analytics..
This eyebrow raising article from MarketinVox… is VERY interesting.
Being the skeptical guy that I am… I would definitely not put it past them…
P4P… less throttling of Broadband?!
The P4P workgroup has made some cool headway into resolving the issues of P2P throttling ISP broadband capacity…
GigaOM summarises it well here… but raises the fact that it will only resolve issues temporarily. But isn’t it all about evolution?
