New Digg Module For Google Personalized Homepage Yay! From Google Blogoscoped, I learned that there’s a new Digg module for serious Diggers that want to add it to their Google personalized homepages. More from Google Blogoscoped: “You can switch the settings so that the module will show only your friend’s diggs. Otherwise, you’ll get the …
Monster.com is a Monster in the Job Search Engine Market This according to the InternetStockBlog: “Monster is the leader in a business that many, many companies are in and many more want to be. These set up into two classes of competitors. One class has money and traffic, the other class is desperate. Yahoo! (NASD:YHOO) …
Free U.S. Subscription to Search Marketing Standard I just saw over at Search Engine Watch that there’s a brand spankin’ new search engine marketing magazine coming out soon called the Search Marketing Standard. And, if you live in the United States, you can get a free subscription (with no credit card required) through April 30. …
Google Partners with Clear Channel And just as I was right in the middle of Dan Gillmor’s excellent book We the Media, a completely timely and ironically relevant news tidbit came my way; this from Adotas: “Making a further shift towards control over “old media†outlets, Google has partnered with Clear Channel to implement its …
Claria opens up PersonalWeb From CNet: “Claria on Monday released the beta version of PersonalWeb, an Internet tracking service that delivers content to subscribers’ personalized home pages. Each feed is based on the subscriber’s online habits and includes links to frequently used Web-based e-mail, search engines, news sources and Web sites. The subscriber’s PersonalWeb home …
Sprint to offer local information search This from eWeek: “Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans on Monday to kick off a local directory cellphone service with information such as driving directions and movie times as it aims to boost revenue by having customers use their phones for more than just talking. ….the service from the …
Podscope and Podzinger – An Update I’ve had a pretty productive email exchange with a few folks from both Podscope and Podzinger (see my previous post about the podcast search engine tiff), and here’s the story from both sides. First, from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TVEyes, Inc. (the company behind Podscope) David Ives: …
Podscope vs. Podzinger: A Podcast Search Engine Cage Match? I received this from the powers that be over at Podscope today (with the subject line of “More Hogwash from Podzinger”): “In the lead paragraph of its news release yesterday, BBN says of its PodZinger podcast search engine, “PodZinger’s new video search feature introduces the only …
Yahoo Canada Beta-Testing New Yahoo Mail Features This via the Social Software Weblog; Yahoo is testing a variety of really interesting new features in their email service in various venues around the world (excluding the United States). More from the official Yahoo press release: “Yahoo! Canada Co., an affiliate of Yahoo! Inc., a leading global …
New (Beta) Yahoo Local News This from Son-of-a-Pitch; Yahoo News is now offering Yahoo Local News headlines, something that Topix actually has been doing for quite a while now. You can kind of do the local news thing at Google if you sign up for Google Personalized Search but it’s not very streamlined. By the …
