Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave some clues to their possible Google Borg integration intentions: After all, information created by a single user becomes exponentially more valuable when it’s shared and combined with information from other [...]

B2B research firm Compete has launched SnapShot, a free traffic tool that draws on the company’s 2+ million consumer panel. So you say that sampling is inherently problematic and flawed? I asked the company about that and they provided a range of explanations regarding why their data are better and more representative than other samplers [...]

In celebration of Jack-o-lantern and trick-or-treaters everywhere, I’ve put together a list of the top 13 online destinations, search engines and services I’ve found over the past week which specialize in the October holiday. Top 13 Halloween Sites, Searches and Destinations: 1. BuyCostumes.com : The largest online retailer of Halloween Costumes, BuyCostumes.com offers just about [...]

In the Google Blogoscoped forums, Philipp Lenssen has posted the Google Halloween logos from the past seven years. Here’s the collection Philipp has put together, and you can also read up on other search engine Halloween happenings in the Google Blogoscoped thread.

Ionut Alex at Google Operating System posts that some GMail users are experiencing 15 GB of memory space: Some users of Google Apps for Your Domain report that their Gmail accounts have 15 GB of storage space. There are at least two people who noticed it, so it’s hard to consider this a mistake. Officially, [...]

Petr Mitrichev of Russia won Google’s Global Code Jam competition and was awarded with a $10,000 first prize. Mitrichev topped a field of over 21,000 registered competitors from around the world, a record number for the Global Code Jam. Second place went to Ying Wang of the United States. Andrey Stankevich, also of Russia, came [...]

Ever take a drive down to Atlanta, Georgia? If you have, you probably had the chance to experience Kudzu. Kudzu is the Japanese weed which was plant to the US for erosion control which has no natural predators and grows so fast it can cover a span of road or patch of trees in a [...]

Internet Retailer reported on a Piper Jaffray study, which finds that search is the most cost-efficient customer acquisition tool. Print yellow pages ranked second. Here’s how the various media fared: * Search: $8.50 * YP: $20 * Online display ads: $50 * Email: $60 * Direct mail: $70 I know nothing about how the study [...]

On Friday, the majority of uploaded YouTube clips containing the Comedy Central produced Daily Show, Colbery Report and South Park shows were deleted from YouTube. Apparently, a third party (which is assumed to be Comedy Central lawyers) requested through the DMCA that Comedy Central clips be removed from YouTube. Will an exodus from YouTube to [...]

Alibaba.com, parent company of Yahoo China, made a ‘strategic investment’ in Koubei.com, which is one of China’s largest classified listing and community websites. According to Alibaba, ‘With the investment in Koubei, terms of which were not disclosed, Alibaba has gained a significant exposure in one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce segments.’ Koubei.com, which means “word of [...]