YouTube has just launched its new Insight analytics tools. Available for YouTube users, partners and advertisers, YouTube Insight displays statistical figures about videos uploaded into YouTube. Just think of it as the Google Analytics of Video. YouTube Insight gives users two categories of video usage data – page views and popularity. Page views for videos …
Wikinear is a simple application that lets users to locate Wikipedia entries for locations nearest to where a user is currently located. It was designed for mobile phones and it’s a good alternative to GPS navigation. Utilizing several technologies from various geographic location tools, Wikinear mashed up these APIs in 200 lines of codes to …
The intermixing of search and Facebook is minimal in terms of web search, as when I was browsing through the list of search oriented Facebook apps I couldn’t help but noticed that those that are the most popular are the ones used for looking and finding friends. This is but understandable since Facebook is a …
Guy Kawasaki has launched his new news aggregation site, Alltop. This service from Guy’s very own words is an “online magazine rack” that displays news from selected top online publications and blogs. Aiming to satisfy the needs of the 99% of Internet users who never use an RSS feed reader or who would not bother …
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person. He lost that title today, after having held onto it for an astounding 13 years. Taking over as the world’s richest person is the American investor Warren Buffett, who increased his fortune by $10 billion in the past year. Comparatively, Bill Gates lost $1 …
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day. The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, …
I love the Internet! But, at times it can be tough love, not because of the Internet itself, but because of human roadblocks and obstacles that are placed in the way, preventing smooth navigation of the Information Superhighway. Here are ten of my top annoyances. Feel free to add your own in comments. 1. Hotels …
It’s good news for Google and others who backed open access policies for the winner of the largest block of wireless spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission’s auction which is currently on-going. Bidding has reached beyond the magic number of $4.6 billion for the most desirable portion of the spectrum, the so-called “C-Block”, which means …
In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO industry survey. See the SEO Industry Survey Homepage The survey asks a wide range of questions about yourself, your employments, type of business, use of tools and services as well …
Things are about to heat up (and get dirty) between Amazon and Apple’s digital music venture as Amazon announces that it will soon be launching its DRM-Free MP3 digital store. Amazon’s digital music store boasts of around 3.3 million songs from the four major U.S. music labels as well as around 33,000 independent labels. This …
