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by Greg Cruey on July 29, 2009
Can you make a living just selling domain names? BusinessWeek took a look at the business of buying and selling domain names recently.During the early years of the Internet, there was furious competit...
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by Greg Cruey on July 17, 2009
Search Engine Land pointed out something to me recently that I don't think much about...
Google dominates the search engine market. Microsoft dominates the software market. And that's it, rig...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on June 26, 2008
ReadWriteweb has a post on the new trends that have been shaping up at the search front and those that could possibly challenge Google's dominance in the future.
A summary of the list
1. Outsour...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on June 25, 2008
LimitNone, a small software company has sued Google for copying its product - for Microsoft Office calendar items and email to Gmail.
An excerpt from Wired
The dispute centers around a LimitNone-dev...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on June 15, 2008
Social Networks are the craze and now there is one for Small Businesses. I am a believer in the concept that like the industrial age, when we believed that automation and fuel consumption had no ends,...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on May 13, 2008
MySpace in an unprecedented move favoring its users enabled them to share their profile data, photos and other information with third party sites. The roll-out was announced for sites such as Yahoo, T...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on May 13, 2008
After the Yahoo deal debacle, Microsoft sits pretty with a load of cash and very many online properties as possible suitors.
An excerpt from EarthTimes
Top executives of Time Warner in New York sens...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on May 7, 2008
The partnership between Clearwire and Sprint to deploy Mobile WiMax had been facing certain financial hurdles till late. Now with $3.2 of funding from firms including Google, Intel, Comcast and Time W...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on April 17, 2008
Latest release of search statistics from HitWise have Google topping the U.S search market with a whopping 67.25% as against 20.29% for Yahoo and 5.25% for Microsoft.
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on April 14, 2008
Researchers from the Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology and Queensland University of Technology have done a study on the classification of web searches.
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on April 9, 2008
Time of 3 weeks is what Steve Ballmer gave Yahoo to stop playing and start merging. Now, Legg mason, the institutional investor with 7% stake in the search portal has given indications that it may hel...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 9, 2008
Maps have become a very popular application on mobile devices. And with more powerful mobile devices with sleeker form factors and crispier displays coming to markets, there are newer applications of ...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 8, 2008
Perhaps there can be no other proof for the impact of social media on the web community than that of the pace at which content is created online on information that goes live via authoritative sources...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 8, 2008
There was a windfall in Google's stock price when comScore's statistics pointed to fewer clicks (7% drop) on ads paid clicks via Google. This has been followed by some interesting information...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 8, 2008
Google has become synonymous in the industry for a culture of innovation that results in great products in future. One more such example is the Google Calendar Sync, a utility that synchronizes Google...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 1, 2008
Social search engines such as Mahalo have very recently come to use techniques that are not so much algorithmically excellent but rely on human intervention. There are other models of leveraging socia...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on March 1, 2008
Google is a great brand name. Every now and then they come out with a new service that catches the imagination of the online community. But the same cannot be said about Google Sites, the latest addit...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on February 24, 2008
Google continued its dominance in the search engine rankings with the comScore search report of the month pointing to a 58.5% share of all the online searches in US. MSN Live also witnessed double dig...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on February 23, 2008
After text and image based ads Google logical expansion into more advertising media goes another step further with the Adsense invideo overlay ads. Google Adsense for video beta provides publishers wi...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on February 18, 2008
SearchEngineJournal has a article featuring the emerging upside trend in Mobile Advertising. The article adds more stuff to the reason why Google is so keen on releasing its Android platform and parta...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on February 13, 2008
OpenID, the decentralized single sign on model for the web, enables users to sign-in into a website that supports OpenID creation and use that log-in for subsequent sites that support OpenID. The mode...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on January 28, 2008
Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live will be joining the Data Portability Working Group. After Facebook and Google this is the next high profile membership to speak about.
The Data P...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on January 13, 2008
Data portability has of-late become a serious issue on the web. Ownership of data has many caveats attached with it - often those that the creators of the data, i.e. the users are not aware of.
The i...
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by Arun Radhakrishnan on January 10, 2008
Late last year, the online community came to see the first major implementations of behavioral targeting with FaceBook's release of the Beacon program. Though subsequently rolled back, the program...
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by noel on December 18, 2007
You don't want IE 7's appearance or functions? Well, you can do something about it. You can hack, tweak, or make the appearance and functions simpler.
To get the hang out of it, Computer Worl...
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by noel on December 8, 2007
Some things are better understood when analogy is applied. Same thing with the social media. Shana Albert has complied cool, deep, and absorbing analogies to explain different aspects of Social Media:...
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by noel on December 6, 2007
Do you know a man with a mission? Of course, all of us have a mission. Errr. I mean social networking mission.
I know a significant number. But the mission is not as intense as that of Chris Brogan....
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by noel on November 29, 2007
So you think all is said and done about Internet search engines? You might also think that information is just moving back and forth. But is that really the case?
I do believe that a lot of things ar...
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by noel on November 29, 2007
While browsing for some meaty news and information, I found a nice article penned by Thomas McMahon of WebProNews. The article gives 7 ways to promote a blog. Here are the ways:
1. Search Engines - ...
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by noel on November 28, 2007
Since you are reading this entry, there is a great possibility that you are suffering from infomania. Who are at risk? Well, anybody who has an internet connection and a mobile phone.
It may sound go...
