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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 […]
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 […]
A degree in Web Science
The New York times today reported on the initiative led by Tim Berners-Lee to make Web Science its own field of Academic study . Up to now the Web has been bundled in with computer science and its various disciplines but the complexity of the web and its unprecedented influence on society and politics to […]
