Soapbox Video : MSNTube MSN is making its bid to get in on the YouTube phenomenon with its new “Soapbox Video.” The product launches in an “invitation only beta” today. Here’s the WSJ’s (sub required) coverage. From the Microsoft press release: Soapbox on MSN Video utilizes powerful Web 2.0 technologies to provide a dynamic, fun [...]

Rotating Google AdSense with Related Links? A recent post on the Inside AdSense blog suggests running the Google Related Links publisher tool on your site and rotating it with Google AdSense. The basic theory behind the suggestion is that regular users of a site will naturally become attracted to the relevant video, news, and search [...]

Google Updates Picasa Photo Sharing Google has added a slew of new features to Picasa, its online digital photo storage and sharing service. The new version of Picasa went live today and Michael Herf, Picasa Engineer, posts on the Google Blog: It has a feature called Picasa Web Albums that lets you post and share [...]

Web Hosting by Google? Gary Price points to a new Google domain (”Googlehostedservices.com”) and speculates about whether Google will become a webhosting company. He also points to “Google Apps for Your Domain” as further evidence of this possibility. GA_googleFillSlot(“SEJ_336x280_InPost”); (This is the point in the post where the analyst says: “See how smart I am, [...]

Google AdSense Running in Email Newsletters Google AdSense, according to a DigitalPoint thread covered by Barry Schwartz, seems to be letting select publishers serve Google AdSense ads in newsletters and mass commercial emailings. I’ve tried (as a test) placing Google AdSense in Constant Contact powered emails and the ads were served and targeted almost perfectly. [...]

Yahoo’s Massive Marketing Campaign This week Yahoo is set to rollout an onslaught of integrated television, radio, cinematic and online advertising which will focus on its new Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Mail Beta and Yahoo Answers; among other offerings. According to a Reuters story, the campaign’s theme will center on life; with and without Yahoo. Allen [...]

YouTube & Warner Strike Music Licensing Deal YouTube and Warner Music have announced an advertising revenue sharing deal with will distribute and license Warner Music Group Corp’s copyrighted songs and other material through YouTube. Under the deal, Warner Music has agreed to license its songs to the people who upload their videos to YouTube. Meaning [...]

Yahoo Mail : The New MyYahoo I’ve long thought that MyYahoo! was a strategic product that wasn’t being fully leveraged by Yahoo! — a kind of potential Internet “dashboard” that would help users organize their content, calendars, etc. While some people do use it that way, I don’t think it has lived up to this [...]

Increase Domain Specific Results in Google Getting limited amounts of site specific results when doing Google site:domain.com searches? Seems that Google’s tiny results are the result of a ‘bug’ in the user preferences. If your preferences are set to ‘Search only for pages written in these language(s): English’ then Google will serve limited results from [...]

Google & Intuit Alliance = Small Businesses Using Google If anyone can summarize the importance of the Google and Intuit partnership into a couple of sentences, Barry Schwartz has done so at the Search Engine Roundtable blog with the following statement: Google has a huge reach with small businesses, but guess who has a larger [...]