Archive for November, 2006
No more Google answers
That’s right, Google is shutting down answers. If anyone is wondering why - the graph from Hitwise makes it pretty self explanatory
Unlike Yahoo! who built a social community that share their expertise for free, Google created a fee paying model, where the person answering the question get paid. In 4 years they managed to get […]
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Webmaster World Las Vagas 2006
If like me you didn’t make it to Vagas for the 14th WMW conference, there’s some great coverage at Webpronews including interviews with Matt Cutts from Google, and Brett Tabke who started WMW. I haven’t had the time to go through all the video, but there’s even more talk of social media than ever before. And […]
Yahoo! leaked memo calls for major shakeup.
A Yahoo! Internal memo calls for drastic action to keep it from declining further in its efforts to catch Google. Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse, asks for a major restructuring of the company with a possible 20% cut in jobs.
Garlinghouse went on to say, the company didn’t have a clear strategy and was rife with […]
One sitemap protocol for Google, Yahoo! and MSN
The three big players in search have finally agreed to a single protocol for submission into their indices. Google Sitemaps was is a system for enabling site owners submit their web site through a XML version of their URL feed. While, Yahoo! Introduced their own version soon after, the two systems required different formats which […]
Google Jotspot as a Business Wiki
Dave Girouard, Vice President and General Manager, Google Enterprise hopes that Businesses will adopt the Jotspot Wiki as a collaborative tool. For many small to medium size enterprise without the resources to setup their own web based Wiki, this is a great way to share knowledge and best practice. Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to use […]
Google News Suggest - search terms
As more and more journalist turn to search to attract readers, finding that common language is going to be crucial to reaching that audience. Finding the right search terms has always been a science in itself and for most commercial queries, there’re many established tools provided by the search engines to show you exactly […]
4 second rule for websites
Research by Akamai and JupiterResearch have found a 4 second cutoff period for site download speed. A study of regular shoppers revealed not only will they leave the site, if the page doesn’t download in under 4 seconds, but will never return again.
“The critical takeaway from this research is that online shoppers not only […]
FBI probes YouTube video of LA cop hitting suspect
The first FBI investigation into Police brutality based on video evidence on YouTube was reported by Reuters yesterday. While this is not the first case of home cinema to get the LA police into trouble - the beating of Rodney King causing riots in 1991. This is the first piece of evidence to arrive […]
Fred Killeen says Web2.0 Collaboration will help GM
Fred Killeen CTO of General Motors, in an interview for Computer Week outlines the importance of technology used in Social Media media for business. At GM he’s looking at how folksonomies and Wikis to name can be used in business for document management and collaboration.
At first I thought this interview was a straightforward - Oh! […]
