July 30, 2010
Facebook has taken a rather surprising tactic with the launch of Facebook Questions - for now at least, the questions and answers on the service are not indexed on search engines. The content on Facebook Questions can only be viewed by logged-in Facebook users, making them invisible to the likes of Google and Bing.
July 30, 2010
Apple’s Steve Jobs somewhat famously said in April that people aren’t searching on their phone, but instead, are using apps. He reasoned, apps on the iPhone “get you into every corner of the internet…This is a new phenomenon that is occurring on the iPhone for the first time in history.” In response, Google’s Mike Steib said this month at the paidContent Mobile event that’s “Bullshit! That’s what I say to that.” If Google’s right, then it’s a market in which they are destroying the competition. One year ago, its share of the mobile search market was 95.58 percent
July 30, 2010
The great (and sometimes annoying) thing about the internet is that most web services attempt to tailor their ads to you. Reader Defunctfrenzy , though, found that he actually got better ads by switching his gender in his account settings. More
July 30, 2010
Dave McClure is a well-known investor through the Founders Fund’s angel program and its joint Facebook fund with Accel, as well as his own investments. Now it looks like McClure about to ramp up his activity by raising a new $30 million fund under the name 500 Startups . The fund was revealed through a regulatory filing spotted by the Form Ds website
July 30, 2010
When you first saw that iconic commercial for the Snuggie, didn’t you think to yourself: “I wish I had come up with such a genius piece of cinematic showmanship?” Well, good news, weekend YouTube warriors, Snuggie is looking for the new Fellini of fleece, and it could be you. If you recall, the Snuggie came on the scene around 2008-2009
