Gaia, which bills itself as “an attempt to reverse engineer famous Google Earth and implement its functionality in open, portable, customizable and extendable way,” recently published the cease and desist letter it received from Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist for Google Earth. Mr. Jones writes that he and his team “are concerned that you may [...]

Google has reached a settlement in its copyright suit in Belgium with with news photographers and journalists. The NY Times (reg req’d) carries the Bloomberg story: Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google’s news service links to newspaper content. [...]

In an effort to take advantage of the online Black Friday sales currently going on which mirror the in-store sales, I tried to cruise over to Walmart.com and see if I could purchase the Sony PSP for the advertised price of $169. Because of the popularity of online shopping and Wal*Mart television ads publicizing the [...]

Yesterday’s Thanksgiving was a good one with about 15 family members, a pit smoked turkey, an accompanying Butterball, two pumpkin pies, and all of the trimmings. If you’re like me, you probably tried to sample everything on the table, they devoured the smoked turkey, only to end up dozing off by halftime of the Cowboys [...]

AbbreviationZ is a directory / search engine of categorized acronyms and abbreviations which helps Internet users figure out what’s behind those niche abbreviations found in different business sectors. During my experience as an advertising agency account representative, I was exposed to numerous acronyms & abbreviations from clients who would regularly use such industry jargon in [...]

The Thanksgiving PR train rolls on as AOL Search has sent out their list of the most popular Thanksgiving oriented search terms over the last month. AOL notes that Turducken has ‘flown the coop’ as the popular turkey-duck-chicken meal did not make this year’s list: Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and Americans are heading to the grocery [...]