Earlier today, Google announced that it has acquired YouTube. One only can ask: why? When you think about sharing online video, what comes to mind first? It’s certainly YouTube that flies above the rest. Google Video pales in comparison. The social aspect of YouTube have people sharing links all the time, whereas Google...
read moreThe Washington Post has an article about Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. The button has a goal to bring the user the first result for a search term (which a lot of SEOs aspire to), but I’m generally more interested in the 2nd through 7th results. I generally ignore the first. That’s just my...
read moreIn a bold move on Friday, Yahoo! announced that it will be providing the API code to Yahoo! Mail, an action that they hope will enable developers throughout the world to create new services and addons to its popular email software that is used by over 257 million individuals. Yahoo has already provided such access to the public in...
read moreToday, the founder of the famous craigslist website, an almost entirely free classifieds and social networking site, announced that he has no desire to sell his site. This came shortly after MySpace was estimated to have a value of $15 billion by a Wall Street analyst. Craig Newmark, the brains behind Craigslist, was quoted as...
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Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. She provides consulting in internet marketing and is Mashable's Global Advertising Director. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
