Windows Live Safety Settings This via BetaNews; Windows Live Safety Settings will be coming out of beta by the summer of 2006; with “content filtering for the Web, contact list management tools for communication services, and online activity reports.” There’s also a veiled reference to that bastion of evil, MySpace: “Activity reports list detailed information …
Search Engine Optimization for Blog and RSS Feeds Stephan Spencer has made available (it’s a .ppt file) his excellent Search Engine Strategies presentation, Blog and RSS Feed Search SEO. The session was also blogged live over at Search Engine Roundtable; here’s one of my favorite snippets: “Use keyword ins the feed title, less than 100 …
Highest Resolution Areas Via Google Earth This via Digg Watch; someone with apparently quite a bit of extra time has fiddled around with Google Earth long enough to discover the highest resolution areas on Earth – these include Guadalajara, Istanbul, and Mt. Everest. Downloadable KMZ files are available to view these images in your own …
Clusty’s Benjamin Franklin Portal I just browsed over to one of my favorite metasearch engines, Clusty, and noticed that they now have a Benjamin Franklin Information Portal. More from the site: “Welcome to the Benjamin Franklin web portal: a comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin’s own writings and proverbs, and tens …
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search MSN has had to do some pretty fast backpedaling due to statements from European MSN head Neil Holloway last week, who stated that MSN’s search engine would surpass Google’s in 2006. More from ITNews: “What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more …
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009 This study from MarketWire; a new study from eMarketer reports that “paid search advertising spending, slowing from its meteoric rise the last few years, will still hit $10 billion by 2009.” More from the article: “eMarketer forecasts that US paid search ad spending in the …
Yahoo to offer four new mashup tools Via CNet, Yahoo will be rolling out four new mashup tools soon. More from the article: “In a nod to the Web’s flourishing mashup culture, Yahoo on Tuesday announced four new application program interfaces for developers interested in building custom programs using its photos, calendar, shopping and bookmark …
How Much Money Did Firefox Make From Google in 2005? There’s some interesting speculations and idle gossip swirling around the Web today about how much money Firefox made from Google last year. Jason Calacanis gave his input: “Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you …
Yahoo Lowers Its Expectations From eWeek in probably one of the most unfortunately-titled stories I’ve come across lately – “Yahoo Lowers Expectations for Original Content.” Apparently Yahoo is wanting to make REALLY sure that everyone knows that they’re just not gonna even try anymore; at least when it comes to its upcoming entertainment offerings and …
Wikipedia Hits the Million Article Mark This via ZDNet;Wikipedia now has one million articles that could be filled chock-full or errors…or not. More from ZDNet: “Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia written by its readers, said late Wednesday that an article about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland became its millionth one. Wikipedia …
