GeoCities, that mainstay of the mid-to-late ’90s Internet, is about done for. New GeoCities accounts are no longer available, and although it hasn’t yet given a specific date, Yahoo has made clear that GeoCities will be shut down sometime later this year.
Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999. Not too long after, the service’s popularity pretty well took a nosedive. Now,…
Today YouTube has launched the beta version of YouTube RealTime, which comes in the form of a toolbar that resides in the lower right corner of the page on YouTube.
From this toolbar, users will be able to see which YouTube friends are currently online (much like Facebook) and what they’re watching. A history of their recent activities on the…
Online engagement by Internet users is increasing in part as a result of a shift toward video content and social networking, according to a new report by Nielsen.
Since 2003, interests of the average online user have shifted significantly. Categories that consisted of portal-oriented browsing sites, such as shopping directories and Internet tools/Web services, used to be the most popular…
Mobile advertising platform AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report looking at statistics for the month of March. It highlights some interesting trends in smartphone applications.
AdMob serves ads for over 6,000 web sites and 1,000 apps and stores and analyzes the data from each ad request, impression, and click. The report is intended to provide insight into trends in…
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is partnering with European mobile provider Orange. The partnership will see Orange devices carrying co-branded content for customers in France, the UK, Spain, and Poland.
"At Orange we are committed to giving people maximum access to the widest range of digital technologies and to simplifying the way people use these technologies to access…
Today Google announced Google Product Search for Mobile. Android and iPhone users will now be able to type a product query into Google.com and get Google Product Search Results formatted for their phones.
This provides for convenient mobile access to online ratings, reviews, prices, and product details (Microsoft announced a similar feature for Live Search about a year ago). "Whether you’re…
Steve Jobs, who has on separate occasions been reported dead and to have had a heart attack (neither of which were true), said goodbye to Apple back in January. He took a leave of absence from the company due to well-publicized health issues.
Upon his departure, Jobs wrote a letter to the Apple staff. In it, he wrote:
I am…
Click fraud declined in the first quarter of 2009 to 13.8 percent, according to Click Forensics’ Click Fraud Index.
That’s down from the all-time high of 17.1 percent reported for the fourth quarter of 2008 and from the 16.3 percent rate reported for the first quarter of 2008.
Click fraud traffic from malicious scripted programs increased in the first quarter…
Google Australia is giving away a free AdWords campaign worth $75 to small and medium-sized businesses that don’t already use AdWords. This would seem like a good way to get new users on board.
ITNews is calling the situation a "self-stimulus scheme" meant to stimulate Google’s declining AdWords revenues. A spokesperson for Google told them that was not the case.…
About a month ago, YouTube changed the names of some of its video sections. They introduced Spotlight, Featured, and Promoted Videos. Now YouTube has made some more changes to its homepage when users are signed out. YouTube Product Manager Brian Glick gives the following rundown of what’s new:
- We’ve streamlined "Spotlight Videos" and given it greater prominence on the…