Priya Ganapati:
At the store, Roark had never been told that his HTC Eris has Android 1.5, nicknamed “Cupcake.” Until told by a reporter, he had no idea what features he’s missing as a result. For instance, free turn-by-turn navigation is available in the latest version, Android 2.1 (”Eclair”), but (Read more...)
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last couple months, you know that Toyota has had problems with sudden acceleration of some of its vehicles. Apparently, the root cause of the problem is still unknown, which is a little troubling to the average consumer. Toyota claims to be (Read more...) 
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini is being replaced as the CEO of Ning by COO Jason Rosenthal. Bianchini founded the DIY network of social networks with Marc Andreessen. But after five and half years at the helm, she is ready to try something new. She will transition to an entrepreneur (Read more...)
After five-and-a-half years as the chief executive of Ning, the Palo Alto-based social network platform provider, Gina Bianchini has decided to step down from her position and is being replaced by current chief operating officer and former Netscape & Opsware executive Jason Rosenthal. Bianchini is becoming an executive in residence (Read more...)
A trio of entrepreneurs who led online advertising technology company Accipiter to an acquisition by aQuantive – which was in turn acquired by Microsoft for $6 billion in May 2007 – have returned to startup life after serving a variety of roles in advertising and sales at the Redmond software (Read more...)
Ari Braginsky, Mobile Orchard:
News from GDC this week:
GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model Is Ngmoco alienating fans of some of their favorite games because of the continued use of the “freemium” business model?
GDC 2010: Street Fighter 4 for iPhone Out Now Some say you can’t experience Street Fighter 4 on (Read more...)
What is Google Buzz for? As with any social networking tool or social media service, this is the fundamental question both Google and its users collectively have to answer. Part of the reason why Buzz has come under so much criticism over privacy and other issues (which Google addressed during (Read more...)
As Apple goes on the offensive against Android, it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer is chose the opposing side. Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system.
Bray (Read more...)
Over at the official Facebook Blog, the company has announced that it will open new offices in Hyderabad, India. This announcement comes just days after Facebook confirmed that it will also be setting up shop in Austin, Texas. Both the India and Austin offices will be hiring online sales (Read more...)
Aaron Wall, SEO Book.com - Learn. Rank. Dominate.:
If you are selling a site which you just want to get rid of and lack passion for then there is nothing wrong with being fairly transparent and shopping it for the maximum amount you can get at an auction or such. And if you have (Read more...)
Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
Back in April 2008, Jason Gambert began his attempt to trademark SEO. But last week, Gambert’s claim was formally blocked. That wasn’t due to a big company or industry group fighting it. It came down to a few individuals in the SEO industry, with ultimately one woman – Rhea Drysdale (Read more...)
The Nexus One is coming to Verizon — no, really, two months after a deal was announced by Google, the device is on its way. HTC has begun shipping the CDMA version of Google’s Nexus One to Verizon Wireless, according to a report in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (Read more...)
ME Liz Strauss, Liz Strauss at Successful Blog:
I wanted to take my blog, Desert Book Chick, from its place on Wordpress.com to a self hosted Wordpress.org site. I signed up with a webhost, got my shiny new domain name, got in the driver’s seat, and off I went. It (Read more...)
I’m at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. It’s been called “spring break for geeks,” which is definitely the vibe. To the plus, lots of people are making lots of relationships and connections. I think the networking is unsurpassed. Startups are a big deal here, and I think people are (Read more...)
Waiting in line for movie tickets is still the worst part of going to the movies (unless you are going to see The Bounty Hunter). With so many mobile phone movie apps, it’s easy to find what’s playing at nearby theaters and even purchase tickets right from your mobile (Read more...)
Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
Over the weekend the New York Times ran an article that summarized and largely substantiated all the rumor and innuendo about the increasingly contentious relationship between Apple and Google. A hot topic on Techmeme over the weekend, the following excerpt captures the essence of the piece: While the discord between (Read more...)Taylor Pratt, Search Engine Journal:
Driving traffic to your website or Fan page through Facebook advertising is becoming a popular trend these days. And for good reason too! Facebook is easily capable of sending you thousands of highly targeted visitors! But with all of the advertising Facebook users are subjected to, what can you do (Read more...)
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Designer Maja Ganszyniec has created a space-saving solution that makes storage opportunities within a room, without the need for shelving or furniture. Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
Eric Enge has an outstanding interview with Matt Cutts. I have read through the entire interview and pulled out four key takeaways, but there is a lot more to be learned from the interview. I’ll list my takeaways in order of what I find to be most interesting: (1) Matt (Read more...)Ann Smarty, Search Engine Journal:
Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can turn useful:
(!) Be one of the first to learn about any breaking news;
(!) Be the first to Digg a post from the Digg-friendly (Read more...)
Andy Beal, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Not since the year-long courtship between Yahoo and Microsoft have I wanted two sides to just DO IT ALREADY!
What am I talking about? China and Google.
For the love of my RSS stream, either pull out or make-up–this is getting old! The latest? Google is "99.9 percent" likely to (Read more...)
Between the geolocation wars of Facebook and Twitter and the flux of geolocation-based social networks and mobile apps that have been hitting the market recently, the competition is tough. Today, mobile networking startup NearVerse, is launching a free iPhone app, called LoKast, which allows people to share media between iPhones (Read more...)
Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We’ll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage, but we expect that at least part of the keynote address (Read more...)
Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
Google is trying to show the public how transparent they are, especially since the EU antitrust investigation. First, the Google European Public Policy blog had a post from Matt Cutts on Google’s transparency. And now I see Google has made a landing page at google.com/howgoogleworks. The new landing page has (Read more...)Andy Beal, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
I don’t often jump into the world of SEO advice–there are plenty of excellent blogs that do that–but when Google’s Matt Cutts confirms that 301 redirects do, in fact, lose PageRank, well, that’s worth sharing.
Eric Enge gets the scoop–boy, is he gonna get a lot of backlinks (Read more...)
Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
The massive Pew State of the News Media report, which Matt wrote about briefly, alludes to findings (previously published) that only 19 percent of online news consumers would pay for content. That number is actually larger than some figures coming out of consumer surveys. According to the Pew Internet and (Read more...)Julie Joyce, Search Engine Journal:
In the pursuit of new inbound links, people don’t always seek out new image links. We’ve been so conditioned to go after good editorial links that image links may be the last things on our minds as we reach out and try to increase traffic (and, let’s be honest, rankings) (Read more...)
Matthew Berk, Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:
The “Business of Making Money” (is there any other kind of business, really?) Local Online Advertising conference held by Borrell Associates in NYC a few weeks ago represented, for me, a turning point in my own understanding of the “local opportunity” and how it will bear fruit. First, a disclaimer: (Read more...)When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. Flurry said today that Apple’s iTunes App Store has over 140,000 applications compared to 60,000 apps available on the Facebook platform.
“Since (Read more...)