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AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.

AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.AP loves to own rights to all the news articles.LOL!AP is cold war and freedom fightersAP is some guy in the basement of a church.RE: AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.Uh, AP content is licensed to Google. Just look at any...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sites

Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sitesWhy its differentIt's basically the same issue of whether a groundswell of blogger support for some candidate actually turns out to be funded indirectly by the candidate. Think Swiftboat. If the govt wants to put out a message, thats fine. But...

Tags: Blogging, Putin ally, pro-Kremlin, pro-Kremlin network, Putin, news site, blog, network

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

Propeller.com - Netscape's digg-experiment lives on

Despite being given notice of eviction at Netscape.com, AOL's social news site -- the so-called "Digg-clone" started by Jason Calacanis -- will soon get a new name and new home at Propeller.com. Talk of the "dead pool" was a little premature it seems. Having...

Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., News Site, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Google fights fines for not posting Belgian ruling

Google fights fines for not posting Belgian rulingCome on Google, be unMSand comply with your fine, before it grows daily and what's up with keeping history off your localized site. Come on Google, clean up the spaghetti legal rangling.Google should just quit using the sites that complainThe news sites...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

News site Digg digs deeper

News site Digg digs deeperNO DIGG !!!lol ... this is a good idea, maybe one day inteh future i'll register, i've just seen it a waste of highly valuable time-wasting-time, to join in teh digger's club...

Tags: News Site

Discussion threads 2006-06-23

Google cherry picks the best

Google News is cherry picking, it picks the best stories, and it picks the very best, and most valuable part of a news story: the headline, the first paragraph, and often, an accompanying photograph. As journalists we are taught to write an inverted triangle. We write news stories assuming that...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Traffic to Israeli news sites up 63-172%

Number of unique visitors to news sites increased by 63% to 172% on January 5th 2006, the day following Israeli Prime Minister's stroke and hospitalisation, Nielsen//NetRatings found. January 5th saw the highest number of unique visitors to Israeli news sites since Nielsen//NetRatings started measuring online activity in Israel in 2003....

Tags: news site, news section

Blog posts 2006-01-16

Most popular news sites in June 2005: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN, AOL News

Associated Press quotes Nielsen//NetRatings data on most popular news sites. In June 2005 Yahoo! News was the top news site with 24.9 mln visits, folloed by MSNBC (23.8 mln), CNN (21.4 mln), AOL News (17.4 mln), Gannett Newspapers (11.4 mln), New York Times (11.2 mln), Internet Broadcasting (10.9 mln), Knight...

Tags: News, news site

Blog posts 2005-07-25

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sites

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sitesNot surprisingActually, this statistic doesn't surprise me at all. The way the Web works entails so much jumping from site to site, that it seems natural to find news from another news site.Good to see you've ported your site over...

Tags: Channel management, news site

Discussion threads 2005-06-21

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sites

According to Hitwise, 26.2% of all visits to news and media Web sites originated from another news site (both print and non-print affiliated) in May 2005. 18.8% of visits to print-affiliated news sites came directly from search engines and directories. 9.0% from entertainment sites. 7.2% from Web e-mail services. The...

Tags: news site

Blog posts 2005-06-21

Google personalizes news site

Google personalizes news siteIt's pretty niceI've been playing around with it all morning and it seems to work well. The site still lacks the aesthetics that characterize Yahoo's and AOL's websites, but Google has never really been about "pretty."I would like to see Google provide a personal portal page...

Tags: Portals, Web technology, Google Inc., news site

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

Nerd news site woos IT execs

Nerd news site woos IT execsSlashdot: News for turds, stuff that splatters.Oh yeah, and BSD is dead. ;)More like Trashdot"As part of the revamp, OSTG will work to lure new mainstream readers. "We're going to do some aggressive outreach to build traffic,""I hope that aggressive outreach includes getting rid of...

Tags: information technology, Nerd news site, Nerd, news site, Trashdot

Discussion threads 2004-07-29

Additional Resources

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Twitter adds "follow" buttons for your site

This isn't big news, but I thought it was useful information. Twitter just added a new page with buttons that you can use on your site. These icons were designed by the wonderfully talented Vitor Lourenço. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Twitter Inc., Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-11-19

More leaks on upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X100e

Some details on the upcoming and mysterious up to this point Lenovo ThinkPad X100e have popped up on the German tech news site, Netbook News. And they certainly have a lot of tidbits to share. by Rachel King

Tags: Lenovo ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-19

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Apple iMac (21.5-inch, 3.06Hz Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 9400M, Fall 2009)

We awarded Apple an Editors' Choice for its new $1,699 iMac, largely because its 27-inch screen dwarfs its competition in that price range. So what to make of Apple's new lower-end iMac? At $1,199, its 21.5-inch screen is hardly the size leader for its price, and without a touch screen...

Tags: Desktops, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce, Acer Aspire Z5610, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Apple iMac, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-11-17

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Toshiba Satellite E105-S1802

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Toshiba's latest Blue Label laptop from Best Buy, the Satellite E105-S1802, is an exact replica of the company's earlier Satellite E105-S1602 model with one...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, laptop computer, satellite, battery

Product reviews 2009-11-16