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Yahoo! is in talks to purchase Tumblr for estimated $1bn
Could this be the end of a good thing? It’s quite possibly so, if the news about Yahoo! being in serious talks to purchase Tumblr for an estimated $1 billion is true.
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Google Report: Search results should be protected by the First Amendment
In a recent report by Eugene Volokh, which was commissioned by Google, he claims that Google Search results deserve the same free speech rights as articles that appear in newspapers and news websites, for example the New York Times.
Facebook returns the favor and sues the shirt off of Yahoo!
Well this is an interesting twist, but it was expected. After Yahoo! stupidly decided to sue the pants off of Facebook, Facebook has decided to volley this back to Yahoo! with a counter suit of their own. Facebook said they would defend themselves against Yahoo!, but I don’t think Yahoo! expected a counter suit.
Yahoo! sues the pants off Facebook
In what appears to be a last ditch effort to try to save Yahoo! from going even further down the tubes, they are doing what any other tech company nowadays is doing - they are suing the bejesus out of a competitor, namely Facebook.
Geocities saved and preserved into online history
Back when the Internet was exploding in the ‘dot com’ era 12 yrs ago now, one of the explosive pieces was Geocities. Geocities was basically web space where you could obtain and design your own personal websites using the Geocities site builder to literally drag and drop content to your website, publish and have a website up and running in minutes. It was very simple and free.
Happy 20th Birthday, Internet
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web (WWW) or as many know it as, the Internet. The Internet was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Twenty years ago on August 6th, 1991 the WWW went public completely changing history forever. The concept for a connected digital world had been around since the 70’s and probably before. Now the Internet has grown to become an every day part of society that many, such as myself, cannot fathom to live without.
Yahoo!’s new search looks familiar but has a twist
Yahoo! just launched a new beta search feature called Search Direct. It might look very familiar to you. It looks like Yahoo! is jumping on the instant search bus and is now providing instant search results just like Google does with Google Instant. I can’t blame them though, instant search results are great. But there is a twist to this. Unlike with Google Instant, Yahoo!’s search results 21 times out of 26 point to Yahoo!’s own domain. Can you say they are a bit biased in their results? It would be nice to get some diversity in my searches.
The Like Log: Study on Facebook likes, shares and comments
Yahoo! Labs did a very interesting and thorough study on Facebook likes relating to articles online called the The Like Log Study. Not surprisingly among technology blogs, Facebook is the top story. Also Apple, Google and WikiLeaks are very popular topics. If you are a publisher these are some very interesting statistics and something you should review.
What is going to happen to Myspace? The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Welp, after the sad news on Tuesday comes a bit more news, good and/or bad depending on your outlook. Myspace CEO Mike Jones confirmed the possible sale or spinoff of Myspace according to a Myspace spokewoman in an interview with Bloomberg.
Yahoo! shutting down Del.icio.us
For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others.
In some kind of weird founder solidarity, the slide was originally posted on Twitter by MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier. Listed under the ominous “Sunset” are: Delicious, Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Picks
(Source: world-shaker)
Google offers Groupon $5.3 Billion to buy
Today it was leaked that the search and all around mega-giant Google has offered to buy Groupon, the online daily coupon and social shopping website. Groupon, founded in 2008 has done very well in it’s space gaining huge momentum in the 2010 year according to Compete.
Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and more
Every year Web 2.0 Summit brings the Internet industry together in one conference to discuss and present their thoughts and opinions on the Web’s future. Web 2.0 Summit is moderated by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly.
In 2010 the summit is happening now from Nov15-Nov17 in San Francisco, CA. If you are a user of the Internet, a developer, social media enthusiast, anyone really, you should check out the summit. A lot of great things are coming out of it (as have happened in past years) and you can watch some great speakers they have on board like Mark Zuckerberg (CEO Facebook), Eric Schmidt (CEO Google), Carol Bartz (CEO Yahoo!), and lots more. Check back here for the live broadcast of the summit and additional highlighted videos. For the official Web 2.0 Summit website click here. Make sure to also check out their Interactive Map where you can explore the world in the eyes of the web.
