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May 2008 Archives

Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey
Written by Alex Iskold / May 27, 2008 8:29 PM / 13 Comments
Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked Continue reading »


Google App Engine Announces Pricing Plan, APIs, Open Access
Written by Sean Ammirati / May 27, 2008 4:00 PM / 17 Comments
At tomorrow's Google I/O conference, the App Engine team will be making a number of announcements. In advance of the conference, we interviewed Paul McDonald and Pete Koomen, two App Continue reading »


The Social Networking Arms Race
Written by Josh Catone / May 27, 2008 2:35 PM / 13 Comments
Last November, when Google launched Open Social we asked readers if Facebook would join Google's platform. The results were split right down the middle, but as we get farther from Continue reading »


Borders To Compete With Amazon
Written by Corvida / May 27, 2008 12:50 PM / 6 Comments
Bookworms around the world have something to rejoice about today. The Borders bookstore, a competitor of Barnes and Nobles, has launched an online version of their storefront. You may recall Continue reading »


Who Are The "Digitally Savvy?"
Written by Sarah Perez / May 27, 2008 11:38 AM / 12 Comments
A new report put about by consumer and media research firm Scarborough Research has revealed some interesting information about the section of the U.S. population that's being called the "digitally Continue reading »


Poll: Are You Still Watching Cable TV?
Written by Josh Catone / May 27, 2008 9:53 AM / 26 Comments
Chris Albrecht has a post on NewTeeVee this morning asking for suggestions to help him break up with cable. Even though cable prices have gone up 77 percent since 1996, Continue reading »


What's the Biggest Rails App? It Doesn't Matter
Written by Josh Catone / May 27, 2008 8:40 AM / 10 Comments
Once upon a time, whenever anyone asked, "But are there any big applications built on Rails?" The answer was usually, 43Things, anything from 37Signals, or Odeo. But over the past Continue reading »


When User-Generated Content Goes Bad
Written by Sarah Perez / May 27, 2008 5:00 AM / 11 Comments
Viral marketing, user-generated content, online buzz: over the past few years, these terms have been representative of a new way of marketing to consumers that takes advantage of the current Continue reading »


Why Google is Wooing Web Developers
Written by Richard MacManus / May 27, 2008 12:55 AM / 17 Comments
Google I/O is the first event for web developers that Google has run. It happens later this week on 28/29 May and Google is expecting 2,500 people to attend. The Continue reading »


Results: Data Portability's Future
Written by Richard MacManus / May 26, 2008 4:37 PM / 4 Comments
A couple of weeks ago we ran an interactive game on the topic of Data Portability. We had a great response, with 680 people playing the game. Here now are Continue reading »


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