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Google Alerts Satisfies Your Video Fix

A little tweak in the Google Alerts service now allows its users to keep tabs on their favorite topics when a video related to those appears.

GMail Thinks My Google Alerts Are Spam

I didn't notice when I stopped receiving my Google Alerts. It's one of those things you pass over until one day you're all "why didn't I get something on this?" I assumed my subscription had run out and I'd have to set them up again – which I found to be very annoying.

eBay Adds Host Of New Services

eBay has announced a number of new services and platform enhancements to help developers extend eBay content. The announcement was made at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston today.

The State of Technorati

Sifry's Alerts: The State of Technorati, April 2007: One of my favorite things to read are the "State of the Blogosphere" reports that Dave Sifry puts out. They provide a great overview of the overall popularity of blogging and are an excellent update on how fast this thing called blogging is still growing.

Reuters News Alerts Through Windows Live Messenger

Today Microsoft and Reuters announce a deal which will bring Reuters News Alerts direct to consumers’ desktops through Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger).

Google Advising Sites Of Badware Status

Sites that get flagged as possibly hazardous destinations in Google's search results will receive notifications from Google about the problem.

Time To Play “Taps” For Google Alerts?

On the whole, Google’s search properties are doing well – a recent analysis showed a 24% year-over-year improvement. There’s a lot of variation among those properties, however. Google Video was the clear winner, with a gain of 545%, but Froogle, Google Alerts, and Google Local all suffered losses.

Four Keys To Brand Monitoring

Forrester Research reiterated the importance of being aware of what people say about your brand online, and noted the four key parts to successfully evaluating potential brand monitoring solutions.

VeriSign Teams With eBay For SMS Alerts

For eBay auction bidders tired of losing out to last-minute snipers whilst running errands (or whatever may pull your attention from the computer), VeriSign and eBay announced an agreement to deliver mobile alerts via SMS from VeriSign's Intelligent Messaging Network (VIMN).

Microsoft Outing Pirates

Nathan Ballog of Illinois, Microsoft says you are a pirate!