California Woman Cuts Off Husband’s Penis, Throws It In Garbage Disposal
I know that I am a man, so this story is particularly unsettling to me. But seriously, gaaaaaaahhh. A Southern California women was arrested and charged with aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon and more after she … July 13th, 2011 by Josh Wolford
Irony at its best: Zuckerberg sets Google+ settings to private
e all love numbers and we all love to know who is most popular, or at least, who has the most followers, so when the people from Twittercounter built Socialstatistics to measure who has the most followers on Google+ we all dove on it. And we saw that, oh irony, Mark Zuckerberg was the most [...]linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel... July 13th, 2011 by admin
What is Google+ Really all About?
With Google Plus being almost two weeks underway we have seen an immense number of discussions about it. And for a reason. People are still trying to figure out what the extra value is. Opinions differ, but Google Plus might very well be the game changer for the web. And we will see a lot [...] July 12th, 2011 by admin
Yahoo ends Site Explorer: Yahoo says Move to Bing Webmaster Center
When Yahoo and Bing first announced they would partner up many in the industry expected this was bad news for Yahoo Site Explorer. That would inevitably be shut down. It took a while but Yahoo now indeed has announced it will be closing Yahoo Site Explorer. The closing down of Site Explorer means that Yahoo [...] July 11th, 2011 by admin
One Extra Facebook Fan could mean 20 additional visits to your website
Should we all be running out trying to get likes? Fake accounts? Bribe people to like our content? It could be one of the conclusions if you look at a research performed by Experian Hitwise. They noticed that one fan on Facebook is worth 20 additional visits to your website in a year. The research [...] July 7th, 2011 by admin
Million Euro Google and Heineken deal shows new business directions for Google
The Financial Times last week announced that Google and Heineken have struck a million dollar deal. The beer-giant and the search giant will become ad partners. The deal will mean Heineken will be advertising on different Google properties like YouTube and Mobile ads. The most important part of the deal however is going the other [...] July 5th, 2011 by admin
Google Take Out: is Google Taking Privacy Serious Now?
The left hand navigation of your Google Profile account when you are editing it has something special to it. Not that you can make your profile as nice as possible, but if you look well, most of the items are related to privacy. After “Account overview” there is the “Profile and privacy” tab, which lets [...] July 1st, 2011 by admin
Waiting for a Google+ invite? They’ve closed it for the night: “Insane demand”
We are seeing the same pattern as when Google launched Google Wave: people begging, screaming almost for an invite. The invites seemed to have been put out there randomly, even though Google says the original invites were very carefully picked, based on country, language and other distinctions. Ever since the first invites went out things went [...] June 30th, 2011 by admin
Google+ : The First Responses from the Expert Marketeers
The ink is still fresh, only a few actually have access, but there is no denying it: Google + is here. Tons of articles and posts already being published, some think its a big succes, others think Google just launched their newest social failure. We’ve asked several experts in the industry about their first thoughts, [...] June 29th, 2011 by admin
Google’s social network is here, we saw the signals, but will it succeed?
It’s been buzzing for months, is Google going for the Facebook attack? Are they going to build a new Social Network? And last night they finally did. And even though it looks like a Facebook rip off at first, it really isn’t. But if it will become successful remains to be seen. The first comments [...] June 28th, 2011 by admin
Facebook now second-most popular in UK
UKOM/Nielsen reports that for the first time ever Facebook surpassed Microsoft to become the second-most popular website in the UK. They grew 7 percent compared to a year earlier to 26.8 million visitors in Britain in May. With that Microsoft falls back to the number three spot. MSN/WindowsLive/Bing sites combined were still good for 26.2 [...]linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor... June 27th, 2011 by admin
Court Issues Blow to Hot News Doctrine, AP Calls it a Win
An interesting debate about the “Hot News” doctrine has arisen from a court ruling, or the overturning of a ruling rather, that says TheFlyOnTheWall.com can get away with reporting financial stock ratings as originally reported by Wall Street firms. The … June 21st, 2011 by admin
Business Insider Overtakes Mashable in U.S. Unique Visitors (Compete)
Business Insider has overtaken Mashable in unique visitors according to Compete. It seemed noteworthy when competing blog Mashable overtook TechCrunch as the more popular tech blog, and now Business Insider (whose tech section is technically Silicon Alley Insider) appears to … June 20th, 2011 by admin
Should Google and Facebook Be Filtering Our Content For Us?
Is the personalization of the Internet a step backwards? Is the wealth of information that is accessible to us being reduced because the products we use are filtering it all so heavily? This is a discussion that has been gaining … June 20th, 2011 by admin
Web Domain Suffixes
If you’ve been reading the news today, you’ve likely stumbled onto the news that domain names beyond .com and .net are going to be increasingly available in the near future. Here are a few good articles about the recent change in domain names. Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a change in how domains are named. Companies can now purchase a suffix... June 20th, 2011 by admin
