October 2010 News

Google Sky Ups Ante With Slooh Partnership
If Google's earnings report hadn't gone well yesterday afternoon, we'd perhaps raise an eyebrow over the company's latest partnership.  Google posted some stellar financial...
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Newspaper Websites Attract More Than Half Of U.S. Internet Users
Newspaper websites in the U.S. pulled in 102.8 million unique visitors in September, accounting for 61 percent of all adult Internet users, according to research from comScore f...
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Are Social Signals the New PageRank?
Microsoft  partners with Facebook to bring social relevance to its Bing search engine. This is a huge announcement  with deep implications for the future of search and...
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Livestrong Aims to Beat #beatcancer Hashtag Record
LiveStrong CEO Doug Ulman spoke at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo today, where he announced an initiative to beat a record set last year for tweets with the #beatcancer hash...
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Survivor Creator: What Kind of Idiot Changes a Successful Format?
Mark Burnett, an executive television producer behind shows like Survivor, The Apprentice, The Shark Tank, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, and many others (he was even b...
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Google Trounces Earnings Report Forecasts
It's time again for Google's shareholders to toss some confetti and raise glasses of not-particularly-cheap champagne.  The search giant released its third quarter earnings...
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Netflix Adds Dolby Surround Sound To Streaming Content
Netflix said today it has tapped Dolby Digital Plus to provide 5.1 channel surround for its TV shows and movies streamed over the Internet....
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Google Counts 10 Million Apps For Education Users
Google Apps for Education has really, really caught on.  Whether or not you noticed, Google's been making an announcement here and an announcement there for quite some time...
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Mozilla Introduces Gary Kovacs As New CEO
There will soon be a new general (or even supreme commander) in the browser war.  Mozilla announced today that Gary Kovacs, who's currently employed by SAP, will assume the...
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Barclays Trims Microsoft Price Target
Today's big financial event will be Google's third quarter earnings report.  Or perhaps Yahoo's wild ride due to acquisition rumors.  But there's also news concerning...
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If Your Blog’s Mobile Experience Sucks, You’re Throwing Away Traffic
So, we're sitting in the opening Keynote at BlogWorld in Vegas. Scott Stratten of Unmarketing is talking about "awesome cont...
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NASA And Gowalla Partner On Virtual Search For Moon Rocks
NASA has partnered with Gowalla to create new ways for people to learn more about space exploration and the agency in general. The partnership populates Gowalla...
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Eventbrite Puts A Price On Social Sharing
Twitter, LinkedIn, and especially Facebook are valuable marketing tools in a quantifiable sense, according to new data from Eventbrite.  Eventbrite, which deals in online t...
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Google Lands T-Mobile Europe Deal
Millions of mobile phone users in Europe should soon start seeing a lot more of Google's properties.  The search giant has secured a search deal with Deutsche Telekom, whic...
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Skype Becomes More Social With Facebook Integration
Skype has introduced an updated version of 5.0 beta for Windows along with the integration of the Facebook News Feed. The Facebook integration makes Skype more s...
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