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Zuckerberg In the Hot Seat In Upcoming "60 Minutes" Interview
This Sunday night one of the "60 Minutes" segments on CBS will feature an interview with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. There's a snippet of the interview on the CBS website together with an article that previews the segment. In the video excerpt of the interview Zuckerberg looks uncomfortable... - MicroHoo? YaBay? No Deal! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD, kara.allthingsd.com
- The New Yorker
On Google: Avoiding Regulation, Arrogance
Just before New Year's, I published a fictional look at what might happen to Google if it was force to break-up due to government regulation. In The Search Party this week from The New Yorker, there's a nice long look by author Ken Auletta on how such efforts to regulate... - Yahoo Moves
Metasearch Engine FareChase To Travel Homepage
TechCrunch noticed that Yahoo has moved the FareChase metasearch engine to the homepage of Yahoo Travel. TechCrunch attributes this move to the recent nearly $200 million acquistion of SideStep by competitor Kayak. I've always thought that FareChase was a very strong property that wasn't being fully leveraged by Yahoo. Yahoo... - Get A Free
Link From Wired
Some SEOs were saddened when Wikipedia added nofollows to external links. Perhaps they'll perk up to discover that Wired's semi-Wikipedia challenger has no such blocking.... - Yahoo
Directory Places Images On Sponsored Ads
Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings from Search Engine Journal reports the Yahoo Directory is displaying image ads near the sponsored results. The images appear on the left hand side of each sponsored result within the directory pages. The images appear to be hosted by ImageAdvantage and draw your... - Google
Launches Google Checkout Trends
The Google Checkout blog announced that they have launched Google Checkout Trends. Google Checkout Trends is a flavor of Google Trends, but limits the data to that collected from Google Checkout merchants. It basically shows you what people are buying and selling online via Google Checkout. You can plug in... - TV Is Dead:
Long Live Distributed Video
Almost since its mainstream introduction in the 1940s and 1950s, television has been the dominant mass medium. Today, television ad revenues in the US are estimated to be between $60 and $70 billion. But the internet, like cable TV and DVRs before it, is shaking up the industry and fundamentally... - Geeking with Greg: Joining Microsoft Live Labs, Greg Linden
- Google Earth Blog: Tracking Flights in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
