Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
Posted by Marcel Cramer in content management on 22/10/2010
Richard MacMannus has been writing a lot about so-called ‘content farms’ in recent months – companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web. Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S., on a par with the likes of Apple and AOL.
Big media, blogs and Google are all beginning to take notice.
Introducing our new YouTube channel for Google Mobile
Posted by Marcel Cramer in news on 03/09/2010
By now, some of you may have noticed our new Google Mobile YouTube channel, with a fresh look that includes a video box that rotates along multiple axes (we love the Rubik’s Cube here at Google). As you click on and discover more videos, we hope you’ll have fun checking out all the ways the box can turn. Read the rest of this entry »
Notifo for iPhone Gets Free User-to-User Messaging, Real Time Twitter Notifications
Posted by Marcel Cramer in news on 03/09/2010
Last time we wrote about Notifo, we called it a “simple mobile notifications platform for anything” — and really, that’s probably the best way to describe it. You take your iPhone, install the Notifo app, hook it up to your favorite services (like Twitter, or GitHub) or any of the “Projects” (read: plugins, like Growl alert forwarding, or Chrome-to-Notifo ), and bam! You’ve got push notifications coming down to your iPhone from just about anything you could imagine. Read the rest of this entry »
Free e-book streaming and sharing with ad support
Posted by Marcel Cramer in news on 31/08/2010
Just as ad-supported sites like Pandora and Spotify let music lovers listen to and share their favourite music for free, so Spanish 24symbols is gearing up to do something similar for electronic books. Read the rest of this entry »
Foursquare and MTV Team up for First-Ever Cause-Related Badge: STD Testing
Posted by Marcel Cramer in news on 31/08/2010
“STD testing center” seems like number three on a list of “Embarrassing Places to Check in on Foursquare,” but this September, MTV and the geo-location service are aiming to quash that stigma by offering a badge to all those who get tested as part of MTV’s GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
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