Gloria Pan from The Media Center emailed me this afternoon to let me know that their upcoming webcast on the newspaper industry is generating tons of interest. (Gloria’s great; I think she’s cut from the same cloth Steve Rubel is.)…

The news in the press this week is that Yahoo! is renaming Overture to Yahoo! Search Advertising Services (that’s a mouthful). That’s consistent with Yahoo!’s branding approach and hardly surprising. But the gossip that’s making the rounds is different. It…

Deeje points to an piece from Ranchero Software about Appcasting, “the practice of using the ‘enclosure’ feature of RSS 2.0 feeds to deliver updates and release notes for new software applications.” In the immortal words of you know who… “It’s…

Perhaps I think this is bigger news than it is, but I was surprised that not a single blog I read commented on this Zacary Rodger’s ClickZ story. In it, Zachary announces that Massive Inc will be rep’ing the ad…

I may have missed the press release, but I just noticed that Yahoo!’s HotJobs is offering saved RSS Searches (something I knew was coming late last year but couldn’t disclose), making them the first major recruitment site to do so.…

According to Gizmodo, the ‘Paris Hilton exploit’ has been reverse engineered and is reproducible. They’ve also got details on how to protect your own voicemail account.

Ina Fried over at CNET got in touch with me late last week to talk about two factor authentication, based on my previous post on the subject. A dozen emails later, Ina has published his piece (a nice overview and…

Still in catch-up mode. Noticed on Scoble’s blog that Google finally released NoFollow a few weeks back, and a bunch of folks got bent out of shape about it. Haven’t read through it all & won’t. Instead, I thought it…

There have been a lot of comment spam horror stories out there lately (and I get more than I’d like myself). Most spam (like the one linked to above) is pretty obvious… Then there are the head scratchers. Is a…

Charlene Li has a post entitled “The Slippery Slope of Search Semantics“, in which she describes the various mental gyrations and contortions she’s putting herself through trying to envision and size online marketing in 2010. I’d be lying if I…