Yahoo Auction – Going Once, Going Twice, Closed!

In a failed attempt to grab a substantial portion of market share from auction leader eBay, Yahoo is closing its auction doors forever. Yahoo Auction will be shut down in order to “better serve our valued customers through other Yahoo properties.”...

eBay + StumbleUpon

The social marketing and search engine world is buzzing over the potential acquisition of StumbleUpon by leading auction company eBay. The news of interest from eBay filtered into the news on April 18th with other potential suitors being AOL and Google but yesterday...

Google Analytics Gets Upgraded – Will You Bite?

The Google Analytics Blog announced today a fresh look and set of tools for Google Analytics; Google’s free web analytics program. The posting announces the following improvements: Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and...

Adwords Hackers Stopped – For Now

An AdWords Exploit has been put to rest recently by Google after scammers running “smarttrack.org” attempted to capture users banking details and other private information. At Inside Adwords, the official AdWords Blog, a post was noted late last month regarding the...

Google’s 600 Million Dollar Data Center

If you thought Google had enough data centers by now, then you thought wrong. Search giant Google, recently noted as the world’s most visited website, has announced today that it plans on spending $600 USD million on a new data center, about 50 miles from Tulsa in...

The Social Activities of Adults and Youth Profiled

Recently Forrester Research posted a “North American Consumer Technology Adoption Study” profiling social technologies used by a large spectrum of 10,000 online users. The following are some screenshots from the Forrester presentation that I found...