Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!-News’

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online - without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring [...]

There was an interesting story on Financial Times yesterday about an Argentine actress Isabel Macedo who decided to google her own name after someone let her know that her name appeared on porn sites. The actress was horrified to actually see links to porn content right on the very first page of Google search results, [...]

Today in Yahoo’s headquarters the management of the company has presented to journalists their plan to revamp some of Yahoo properties with a focus on adding third-party content. The idea is that such content will make Yahoo more of a destination to users and will improve the situation where visitors use Yahoo as a springboard [...]

Honestly, I was very intrigued when I saw the headline in Yahoo News - InfoWorld adds Twitter to its mobile options. It sounded like a big story to me - mainstream media adopting social media tools again, something we can’t stop to admire and so we continue to give them credits whenever they step out [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb [...]

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some [...]

What is the problem? YouTube and Google just allow people to share content right? Well, someone else does not like their content being shared as more news arrives of yet another lawsuit against the dynamic duo of Google and YouTube. Plaintiffs including the English Premier Soccer League are suing over copyright infringement allegations.
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is calling the hands of Internet number pushers in regard to the validity and measurement of user behavior. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see a watchdog set on one of my pet peeves. So many numbers abound across Web 2.0, but most significantly to me these [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more [...]