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
Read MoreTime 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, [...]
Read MoreCuil 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 [...]
Read MoreThe 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 [...]
Read MoreFeedburner 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 look and [...]
Read MoreGoogle 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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