It’s Time for an Ad Manager

So you have a great blog, your traffic is up, and now it’s time to make some money. You have signed up with an ad network, and you’re getting multiple offers from companies interested in purchasing your ad inventory. But how do you manage it all? A few months ago I would have recommended OpenX, [...]

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Google enters the Browser Market

Today Google released Chrome, their much anticipated open source web browser intended to help drive innovation on the web. As the web continues to move away from web simple text and images, and into the more rich interactive applications that now drive the majority of our computing experiences, Google has completely reworked the architecture of the browsers of the [...]

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08.15.08 webNews Wrap-up

In case you missed it…. AOL Acquires SocialThing Google’s Feedburner Switches to Adsense Yahoo Board Adds Icahn Nominees Chapple, Biondi Twitter Cuts U.K Texting Facebook Sued over Beacon

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Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale

Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]

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Cuil is not Cool

So, to much fanfare, $30 million dollars in venture capital funds, multiple TechCrunch stalkerage, and even CNN frontpage coverage, a former Google exec’s secret product was officially unveiled today. Pronounced like the world ‘cool’, cuil.com is touting itself as a better search engine, proclaiming to have indexed more than 4x’s the number of sites than Google. Being [...]

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The Black Internet Space: Different but not Really

Diddy TV and the Diddy TV Video blog,  Have you seen it?  HILARIOUS (if not it is embedded above)!!  This last, Diddy Blog #10: Bitchassness Alert Level Orange, was definitely LOL worthy!  Diddy is working YouTube, just like everyone else, creating viral awareness of his brands biggest asset…himself.   PLUS, it looks like he is having [...]

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Feedburner makes room for Google Adsense

It was going to happen sooner or later. Google took a step forward in intertwining the almighty “G” into one of its acquisitions today. Google will integrate its Adsense product into Feedburner RSS feeds. Mashable first reported this development from a coy hint from Allen Stern via Feedburner’s blog: FeedBurner will start to [...]

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Google Sponsors Sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad

Google, for the second year in a row, sponsored the sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad. The Olympiad consisted of 16 teams from eight Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), or Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) competing in five computer science-related events. One of the events consist of [...]

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04.11.08 webNews Wrap-up

Hulu will go international. Yahoo runs 2 week trial of Google AdSense in Yahoo search results. AOL launches Technology network. Yahoo Maps in living color. Google crawls HTML forms.

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Google Launches App Engine

Last night at Campfire One, Google announced the preview release launch of the Google App Engine, “a tool enabling developers to run web applications on Google’s infrastructure.” Google’s goal is to “make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point [...]

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