July 28th, 2008
Facebook grabs Mike Schroepfer from Mozilla
Firefox suffers a huge loss as Mike Schroepfer defects from the Mozilla Foundation to the potential riches of Facebook.
July 25th, 2008
Gas prices suck, so people shop online
People took a harder look at shopping in June 2008 and quite a few decided the savings would be worth the wait for delivery from an online business.
July 24th, 2008
Home fiber, city fiber, where’s my fiber?
Who should own the last mile of fiber to your place? It’s been the telcos for years, but what if it were the cities or even you who owned that important bit of connectivity?
July 23rd, 2008
The kids are fleeing Facebook
Facebook still has strength among the post-college aged crowd, but those in school may think Facebook isn’t cool any longer.
July 22nd, 2008
Google walks in with Maps walking directions
Once the province of Ask Maps before IAC gutted the project, Google Maps picked up the walking directions banner and made that feature available on its service.
July 21st, 2008
Icahn gets a Yahoo board seat
Vicious and public proxy fight for control of Yahoo ended with the company and Carl Icahn agreeing on nominal changes to Yahoo’s board.
July 18th, 2008
SES San Jose: How’s your landing page doing?
You’ve got a visitor to click through to your site. What happens next? Tim Ash will let you know what should happen at SES San Jose, but he gave us some early comments on the topic.
July 17th, 2008
Price check: Google/Yahoo deal means 22 percent increase
Keyword bids will become more expensive with Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo, one search management firm contended.
July 16th, 2008
Blogger finds baseball stats proves Obama will win
Daily Kos favorite Poblano, the moniker for blogger Nate Silver, spent a lot of time getting right what powerful polling organizations missed with the Democratic nomination process. You could say he hit a home run.
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July 15th, 2008
Microsoft, Google spar over Yahoo in Senate
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony for and against Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo.
