| May 12 | Google Friend Connect, For The Social Web Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by Marcia
"Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more." |
| May 12 | Building Communities: Critical for Online Business? Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by martinibuster
At first glance who would connect community to classifieds? How critical do you think building community is to an Internet endeavor?" |
| May 12 | Semantic Search Wikipedia With Powerset Posted in Alternative Search Engines by engine
"Powerset's technology breaks down the meaning of words and sentences into related concepts, freeing users from always needing to type the exact words they want to find." |
| May 12 | Things Not To Do With Your AdSense Account Posted in Google AdSense by BrandNewDay
"Here's my top list of things not to do with your Adsense account and Adsense sites:..." |
| May 12 | Profiting from NPOs? - PIR Increases .Org Registry Fee 10% Without Comment Posted in Domain Names by encyclo
"Wholesale fees for Internet addresses ending in ".org" will increase 10 percent Nov. 9" |
| May 12 | Orphan Works Copyright Legislation Proposed Posted in Content, Writing and Copyright by incrediBILL
"What they are trying to accomplish is to allow usage of orphaned copyrighted material so that many potentially important materials may be included in publications and documentaries, after a good faith search fails to locate the author, to avoid massive copyright lawsuits including statutory penalties." |
| May 10 | Keyword Suggestion Tools Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by AjiNIMC
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the keyword suggestion tools on the market today. What's hot and what's not!" (-subscription required) |
| May 10 | AVG Toolbar Glitch May Be Causing Visitor Loss Posted in Search Engine Spider Identification by Umbra
"Web sites with tight security are turning away AVG visitors with security toolbar broadcasting malformed HTTP headers and user agent strings." |
| May 9 | MySpace No Longer an Island, Goes For Data Portability Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"Responding to the momentum around data portability, MySpace has launched its own "Data Availability" effort with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket." |
| May 9 | New Net Neutrality Bill Introduced Posted in Foo by engine
"Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic." |
| May 9 | Facebook Agrees to Create Tools to Protect Young Users Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"The social network Facebook has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a broad set of principles intended to protect young users from online predators and inappropriate material." |
| May 9 | Landing Page Load Time Will Be Counted In Quality Score Posted in Google AdWords by AdWordsAdvisor
"Starting today, load time evaluations will be displayed on the Keyword Analysis page, for your review. We suggest taking some time to evaluate and understand this information because, starting mid-June, landing page load time will be incorporated into your Quality Score." |
| May 8 | Yahoo Glue Pages (Beta) Released in India Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by engine
"The Glue Pages Beta currently works for select search terms across select categories such as health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance." |
| May 8 | Hacked Blog and Hidden Links - warning email sent by Google Posted in Google Search News by workingNOMAD
"Got an email from Google that they have detected hidden links and have removed the site for 30 days and that I should file a reinclusion request." |
| May 8 | Opera Dragonfly - web developer tools now available (alpha) Posted in Opera Browser Usage and Support by RonPK
Opera hasn't had real developer tools for far too long, but the wait is soon over. An alpha release is now available. |
| May 8 | User Account Control in Windows Vista Posted in Microsoft Windows OS Usage - NT - XP - Vista by JDTurner
"Without UAC, if you log on as an administrator, all programs that you start will have administrator rights. For instance, your browser would have the authority, to stomp all over your program files, rewrite the registry and generally cause mayhem. But it's only a browser so why would you want to give it so much power?" |
| May 8 | AdSense Stats Delay Posted in Google AdSense by indias_next_no1
"According to Google, the delay is fixed, but not everyone is seeing it quite yet." |
| May 8 | E.U. Says, Travel Sites To Clean Up Their Act, or Face Legislation Posted in Ecommerce by engine
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| May 8 | FireFox Add-ons Infecting Users with Trojans Posted in Firefox Browser Usage and Support by Marcia
"Mozilla, the maker of the open source Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code," |
| May 8 | TorrentSpy Parent, Valence Media, Hit By $110Million Fine Posted in Content, Writing and Copyright by engine
"In a four-page final ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgment against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media for wilfully inducing, contributing and vicariously allowing copyright infringement on its Web site." |
| May 8 | Google Invests With Partners in $3.2B Wireless Broadband Company Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company." |
| May 8 | OpenOffice 3.0 (beta) Released Posted in Website Technology Issues by engine
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| May 8 | First it was Position 6 - Now Position 4 Gets Strange Posted in Google Search News by internetheaven
The result in position 4 has been rotating between three different firms all day for our industry's top value keyphrase. All other listings above and below remain constant. |
| May 7 | Finding Good Keywords Without Online Tools Posted in Keyword Discussion by Receptional_Andy
"For all the luddites and technophobes out there who (inexplicably) still want to do keyword research, don't despair! You don't even need a spreadsheet." |
| May 7 | Bill Gates Says, Microsoft "focused on its independent strategy" Posted in Microsoft Corporate by engine
"Those comments seemed to set a different tone than on Tuesday in South Korea, where he said the company wasn't ruling out alternative partnerships after the failure to buy Yahoo." |
| May 7 | Google AdSense: "You're Fired," Emails Posted in Google AdSense by soona99
"There's great discussion amongst WebmasterWorld members receiving the dreaded (by some) "business model" e-mails." |
| May 6 | Yahoo SearchScan released Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by Receptional_Andy
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| May 6 | Free Dynamic DNS Services Pose Massive Security Threats Posted in Webmaster General by incrediBILL
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| May 4 | Microsoft walks away from Yahoo deal Posted in Microsoft Corporate by tntpower
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| May 3 | The Bug Crawling In My Screen! Posted in Foo by vatel
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| May 2 | Cloaking Flash-based Sites, Revisited Posted in Cloaking by incrediBILL
"Here's the real problem with that line of Flash/HTML cloaking philosophy..." |
| May 2 | Google AdSense: What Qualifies an Advertiser for the Filter? Posted in Google AdSense by martinibuster
"I'm wondering what publishers feel are the hallmarks of an advertiser that is made for the AdSense filter?" |
| May 2 | Three Way Triangular Link Exchanges Posted in Link Development by Creekscout
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the merits, or otherwise, of three way and multi-way link exchanges." |
| May 1 | Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by ebound
"In an interesting interview, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt talks about Microsoft-Yahoo proposals, social networking, markets, and Google technology." |
| May 1 | Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 3 Posted in Microsoft Windows OS Usage - NT - XP - Vista by bill
Microsoft is delaying the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users due to a "compatibility issue" |
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