Archive for May, 2006
May 27th, 2006 | 
Author: Fri May 26, 9:24 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Earthlink Inc., the Internet service provider, said on Friday it has won approval from the New Orleans City Council to build a wireless high-speed Internet network in the city.
The company said the wireless network will provide Internet access for residents, businesses and visitors in New Orleans. It will offer a free service for a limited time during the city’s rebuilding efforts and a faster paid-for tier service. read full story
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Google has something new – no surprise there right . . . This time it’s video ads. They will replace some of there regular payper click advertising. It kinda sounds as though they’ve put a lot of thought and effort into displaying video adverts on web sites ina way that isn’t so gaudy as well.
At first it appears that the advert is just a static graphical ad. “We are offering a very, very non-intrusive ad product,” said Gokul Rajaram, product manager for Google AdSense, which runs advertising campaigns across affiliated Web sites. “Only users who click on the ad see the video.”1
These video adverts aren’t mentioned at all on the Official Google Blog or on their advertisers web site as of yet.
UPDATE: Google just annouced this program
Forrester Research and Shop.org’s annual State of Retailing online study have determined that Online sales are expected to rise 20 percent this year to $211 billion. The largest moving category seems to be pet supplies and cosmetics. Internet sales have been growing at a fast clip lately, doubling in the last three years alone. “Click and Mortar” type business seem to be doing the best currently.1
The details of implementation are as of yet unclear, but yesterday the EU brought forth proposals to regulate content on the Internet are aimed at “protecting society”.1
A group of EU culture ministers met to discuss extending rules restricting television content to cover telephones and the Internet as well as over-the-air broadcasts.
Some how they expect us to beleive:”That has nothing to do with free speech, that has to do with the freedom to protect your society on the basis of laws which have been accepted by national and European parliament,”
On Monday, 5-22-2006, Yahoo is set to add human advice to their SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages). It will mix in human advice from their recently added service called Yahoo Answers with the SERP’s.
While Google is for the momment the most popular search engine, is less and less releavant result have caught the eye of several and soon Joe Public will catch on the Google sucks as a search engine. Seems gogle may have caught on too. They have some semi secret plans to add some human editing to their SERP’s. What you don’t realize google sucks yet? Well I’ll write an article about the poor relavancy on Google later, but in the mean time use this example below and remember, their job isn’t to give you what you search for in the results, their goal is to get you click on an Advert.
Oh here’s the example a search for restaurants in my city doesn’t have any restaurants! There’s some very spammy sites with PR’s of zero (this site was #5 on the first page for instance) in there but not one restaurant! Why? If your restaurant was there you wouldn’t buy advertising would you? More on this later.
This one is straight form the “I’m glad I didn’t do that” files. Seems the BBC was about to do a live interview with editor of some tech web site about the Apple/Beatles verdict that came down recently. Well they grabbed their “expert” from the lobby and put him on the air.
Only problem was that he wasn’t the expert! He was a taxi-driver there to pick some one up. And here’s the funny part – he went ahead and answered their questions – and did fairly well!
Here’s the full story