Internet Archive Open To Art
We worry so much about click-through rates, ad campaigns, and keyword pricing that it's easy to miss out on the more creative side of what the Internet can offer.

Date: 2006-12-29

Leo Wants Some Answers
Hollywood recruits one of it's biggest names to ask the tough questions about the environment on Yahoo! Answers. Leonardo DiCaprio knows a thing or two about the environment and global warming. After all, he does live in Los Angeles, one of the most polluted cities in the country and he drives a Toyota Prius, which is an eco-friendly hybrid car.

Date: 2006-12-14

Trust In Search! Dinner
At Search Engine Strategies conferences there are always after-conference events and last night was no exception. The SES Dinner hosted by Allan Dick of Vintage Tub and Bath was definitley a winner in my book.

Date: 2006-12-05

What’s Cooking For Thanksgiving?
Using search engines to find recipes is not a new concept. In fact, Danny Sullivan referenced this very thing during his keynote speech at PubCon last week (in relation to the Martha Stewart Apprentice contest). However, thanks to Yahoo’s Buzz blog, we now know just what kind of recipes people are seeking out for this year’s Thanksgiving celebration...

Date: 2006-11-22

PubCon: Yahoo Party At The Playboy Suite
Wow, what a party! Yahoo had a very private, invite-only party last night at the Palms Towers in the Playboy suite. Thank you to Yahoo PR for letting me bring Karen and Jolina from the TopRank team. This was their first conference and Karen's fist...

Date: 2006-11-16

Microsoft Goes 3-D With Map Search
Virtual Earth 3D launched from Microsoft as a response to Google's Earth program, with Microsoft's version running in the browser as a plug-in instead of as a separate program.

Date: 2006-11-07

MingleNow A Social Network For The Party People?
With all the other social networks out there is there room for one more? With the social networking being all the rage due largely to the success and celebrity of high profile sites like Myspace and Friendster one is left to wonder where we go from here. So, if you are indeed one and you are in fact wondering, try this on for size.

Date: 2006-11-01

The Launch Of Google Politics
Last month, Google announced that it would form a political action committee to act in the political realm on behalf of the company's interests. The group, labeled netPAC, is already beginning to endorse candidates running for office in the upcoming November elections.

Date: 2006-10-27

Cornell Joins Microsoft’s Live Book Search
Cornell University has announced joint initiatives with Microsoft and Kirtas Technologies aimed at digitizing a majority of the school's library content. The volumes will be made available online via Microsoft's Live Book Search.

Date: 2006-10-19

Google Groups Regroups With Beta
It's more than just a facelift, as Google took the existing Groups service that grew from its long-ago purchase of Dejanews into a more Googly look with an expanded set of features.

Date: 2006-10-05

First Made-For-Internet Movie To Premiere
The first made-for-the-Internet, "theatrically budgeted" movie will premiere on AOL this Halloween, AUTOMATIC producer Adam Shapiro told the attendees at this year's VON. Shapiro was part of a roundtable discussion about film and TV on the Web and how we get there.

Date: 2006-09-13

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Date: 2006-09-12

MySpace Cuts In On Record Label Turf
Musicians may finally have a way to bypass the recording contract holy grail that up-and-coming artists have perpetually sought for decades.

Date: 2006-09-07

YouTube's Night In Paris
YouTube's quest to maximize its monetary potential culminates with a night in Paris. Sorry. Wrong preposition. A night with Paris. Kicking off the premiere video site's venture into rich media advertising, Paris Hilton gets her own channel to promote her music video and album release.

Date: 2006-08-24

SES: Wooing The Social Networks
At the Social Search track at SES San Jose, Doug Caverly lends an eager ear to panelists discussing how community-built websites, like Wikipedia, Digg.com, and Del.icio.us, can be utilized for search engine marketing.

Date: 2006-08-09

Windows Live Spaces Debuts
The successor to Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging service launched this week with an assortment of new features for its users.

Date: 2006-08-03

Facebook Gives Away ITunes
Facebook is going give away 10 million iTunes music samplers over the next 10 weeks.

Date: 2006-07-27

No more trips to the post office
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Date: 2006-07-18

88SLIDE: One-Minute Trivia Podcast
88SLIDE: the daily one minute trivia challenge is one podcast that I catch every day. It's a one-minute game show ... and I love game shows. Total gameshow junkie. Always have been. Plus, a total useless data / information / trivia junkie. I coulda been a contender on Jeopardy. But, was always too lazy.

Date: 2006-07-13

Troubling New Study On Click Fraud
Market researcher Outsell Inc. has determined that click fraud is a big issue-"big" in the sense of a "$1.3 billion problem." Their study also found that the issue has driven advertisers to spend less money with the major search engines.

Date: 2006-07-06

MSN Invokes Karma For Charity Campaign
MSN is launching a karmic charity campaign called Under the Butterfly, a concept based on the famous Butterfly Effect that asserts small events impact larger ones. It's "karmic" because participants in the event will have a choice: keep a prize or donate the cash equivalent.

Date: 2006-06-15

Click On Mickey Mouse
You're tired. It's hot and steamy outside because it's been raining sporadically all day. But you promised your kids that they could see the new Disney film today. And let's face it, you could use the break, too.

Date: 2006-06-01

MSN Spaces Tops In Blogs
Microsoft noted how its MSN Spaces blogging service drew more than 100 million visitors in April, and that does not even include its 20 million unique visitors in China.

Date: 2006-05-25

UFO-Hunting Hacker To Be Extradited
A British hacker who broke into U.S. military systems (including those of the Pentagon, Army, Navy, and Air Force, among others) may be extradited to the United States. Gary McKinnon would be "charged with the biggest military computer hack of all time," according to U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty...

Date: 2006-05-11

Google Talk Themes
Ever since the new avatar/themed version of Google Talk came out, people have been creating themes for it, many of them pretty cool. Lets try to run them down...

Date: 2006-04-27

2006 WebAwards - Recognizing Net Excellence
It's time to be recognized for your outstanding Web development work by winning a 2006 WebAward. Beside the respect, recognition and admiration of your peers, WebAward winners create a marketing opportunity for the site that is recognized and the firm that created it.

Date: 2006-04-25

Sony, Google Break The Da Vinci Code
Part of the publicity for the Tom Hanks film based on Dan Brown's bestseller includes a puzzle-solving contest and lots of trips and Sony goodies as prizes.

Date: 2006-04-13

Tongue In Cheek With Oral Pixation
Recently (very), we reported about the upcoming "happening" set up by self-named Oral Pixation, who asks the world to show what's in its mouth and post the photos up on Flickr - on April Fool's Day. We caught up with "Oral" via email for a look inside the horse's mouth.

Date: 2006-03-30

Excellent Hack For K2 WordPress Theme
One of the things I continue to find a bit tricky with WordPress and the customized K2 theme I have on this blog is tweaking the sidebar to include or exclude elements on certain pages.

Date: 2006-03-16

Check This Out: Virtual Earth Streetlevel
Remember how A9 took a car with a few cameras on it down streets of major cities and let you see what the storefront looked like at a particular address?

Date: 2006-03-02

Google Choose Your Own Adventure Game
Philipp has made a game he calls "The Google Adventure", a choose-your-way text game.

Date: 2006-02-09

The End Of Cyberspace
Alex Soojung-Kim and David Pescovitz's article in Wired on Cyberspace is Dead now has a blog:
Cyberspace is a "metaphor we live by," born two decades ago at the intersection of computers, networks, ideas, and experience. It has reflected our experiences with information technology...

Date: 2006-01-26