So you’ve seen the Apple laptops prominently displayed all across BBC output - Google as well, now…
The BBC and YouTube have joined up to bring specially commissioned content and news clips to the Google-owned video site.
The deal will see a number of channels - BBC, BBC Worldwide and BBC World - appear on YouTube, with some content partially funded by advertising.
There is talk of Weebly, discussed here and here. It’s something between a CMS and netvibes at the moment. And it has the magic acronym…
Weebly’s blog creator deploys the same remarkably simple AJAX-based, drag-and-drop interface that makes their website design tool so easy to use.
Yes, my skepticism of AJAX remains undimmed.
The principle existed 8 years ago, (it always does have a prior existence) with bravenet etc - either the technology has improved sufficiently, - Youtube embedded, RSS, XML-RPC - in which case it is an idea whose time has come, or this middle ground is always going to be squeezed in terms of flexibility vs simplicity.
Sitekreator, if I don’t do it a disservice, hasn’t taken the web by storm. How many of these services are simply transitional along the path of a user’s HTML/site admin proficiency? It’s also bang in the path of Blogger’s juggernaut progress towards a more flexible layout editing process.
When creating blog pages, you get the extra option of a “Blog Sidebar,” from which you can drag Twitter, Flickr and del.icio.us Linkrolls widgets. You can add any widget you want by dragging and dropping an HTML box and pasting the widget’s code.
Oh, and if the quoted figure of partial funding of $650,000 to launch this kind of enterprise has some basis in fact, I must be out of touch… some angels are clearly required round here.
And all that said - good luck to weebly, work deserves success.
Well, what on earth would you call it for a start?
Something bland like MY?
Or live.com - what a minute, that’s been done. But the main thing is
What a Microsoft-Yahoo Means for Google.
The main question - could you ever splice together 2 less good search engines to make one that could challenge Google - no, databases don’t work like that.
Can a Microsoft-Yahoo joint venture truly compete against the precision, speed, accuracy and scale of the Google keyword search system?
If Microsoft and Yahoo merge Google may have to worry about its hold on the consumer search and online advertising markets.
The potential Microsoft / Yahoo merger probably doesn’t have rivals at Google shaking in their eco/Gucci boots just yet, but if a merger came about Google would have to worry about its hold on the consumer search and online advertising markets.
Yahoo has consistently turned down any merger offers from Microsoft. The companies appear to be in new “early-stage discussions” over a merger or deal that would help both companies better compete for a larger share of the keyword search marketplace.
Microsoft is not the type of company that makes acquisitions right and left, and buying Yahoo would ease some of the pain of failing to take over DoubleClick and also give Microsoft 30% of the keyword search pie versus their current take of only 9%.
Size in the advertising world does matter, though, and the combination of Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! would encroach on Google territory in the search market.
Gadgets are not just for Christmas - apparently they are…
A survey claims people waste 2.5 billion US $ every year on unused gadgets. Fear and ignorance are classed as the top reasons why we don’t get on with our new toys. And, why we tend to dump them in a corner, never to be seen again. The average cost of these unwanted gadgets is US$ 250.
In terms of numbers, it suggests that one in every five gadgets is not used. Top of the list comes the iPod, followed by digital cameras, software, sat-navs and mobile phones. The survey was commissioned to see just what we do with gadgets we get as gifts and the worst offenders are 35-44-year olds.
Independent Media Goes Web 2.0
After a delayed response, progressive independent media organizations are piling on the Web 2.0 tools In the past many of these organizations have stuck to the old web 1.0 way of simply providing a website with basic capabilities.
So What is Web 2.0? It’s one of the biggest buzzwords out there, but what exactly does it mean? Andi Gutmans of Zend defines Web 2.0 and explains how it’s changing the face of the Internet.
And presumably Adwords as well
Welcome, xxx@hotmail.com!
Please take a moment to update your AdSense login.
The more-than-slight impression is that the tyranny gathers pace…
We will soon be requiring all our publishers to update their logins to a Google Account. This change will provide you with enhanced security and will make it more convenient for you to use other Google products with just one account.
Two years ago, the company I work for began offering MS Outlook through the web to employees. At first I was skeptical, I didn’t think it would be that useful. But, a year after that, it was seriously fully functional Outlook over a website. I also use Hotmail for my personal life and had wondered why in the hell Microsoft didn’t apply the same great ideas from the web-based Outlook client to their Hotmail site. I don’t think my company would drop its control of its Exchange Servers if Hotmail offered the same look and feel. I didn’t think Microsoft would lose any business at all but they would have cornered the market in e-mail.
Sometime between a year ago and today, it’s become fully compliant with Firefox 2.0-I’m pretty impressed and actually don’t mind using web-based Outlook when I’m out of the office.
Why did Microsoft sit on their hands as Google slowly built up their capabilities to match those of Outlook? Why didn’t Microsoft work on porting what they had done for Outlook to their Hotmail servers? I guess server load could always be the answer to those questions but I’m starting to think that Microsoft thought Hotmail would always be number one in personal e-mail. Thankfully, it looks like the competition is putting the pressure on them to improve their service.
The Big IT Vendors Promise Web 2.0 Capabilities
Today’s market for Web 2.0-style collaboration and information-sharing tools for businesses is largely up in the air. Startups such as Socialtext for wikis, WordPress for blogs, and NewsGator for RSS get discussed right alongside Microsoft, Google … (more…)
It’s not uncommon now to see a site with PR1 and Alex rank of 15,000.
In addition to the armies of paid servants clicking away, beware popups - cheap spyware traffic can be used to inflate a site’s traffic statistics. Traffic measurements mistakenly assume users arrived at the site because they actually wanted to go there, without considering the possibility that the visit was involuntary.
Nevertheless, from the site’s perspective, these visits offer real benefits: Investors will be willing to pay more to buy a site that seems to be more popular, and advertisers may be willing to pay more for their ads to appear. A buzz may be created, which helps to recruit bona fide users.
WinSCP now has FTP support - brought to you directly from the Filezilla code
WinSCP.exe instead of WinSCP3.exe. The same change applies to default installation path and Start menu group (for upgrades, existing WinSCP3 path is preserved).