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Archive for August 4th, 2009

by Claudine Zap All parents think their two-year-olds are the brightest, quickest kids on the block. (And they are, they are.) But there's one tyke who amazes not just his parents, but the tennis community in Britain. Meet two-year-old Jonah Ziff , future Wimbledon champion, if the experts are to be believed. According to the Telegraph, the toddler was on the court tagging along with his older siblings, and just picked up the game. As Jonah's mom put it,
Despite being one of Yahoo's most successful acquisition, Flickr rarely gets the love and attention from Yahoo. Probably because the Yahoo folks know that Flickr can stand on its own being a solid photo uploading and sharing service. So it's good to know about some new things from Flickr once in a while. The latest of which is the redesign of its search results page .
Google is giving new Enterprise Search Appliance customers an " ROI JumpStart ". What this means is they're sending people to help you deploy it for two days. These people come from "select Google enterprise partners." New customers who license a GSA covering one million documents or more by September 30 are eligible. "With this ROI JumpStart, new GSA users will accelerate their onboarding experience, from purchasing to deploying to getting relevant results to end users,
Reports have "Wall Street Gossips" talking about Apple working on a "PayPal killer". This would be in the form of the iTunes store turning into a payment system. There's no telling how much truth there is to these rumors, but the world is going to need some more options when PayPal goes down, as it did last night, causing quite a stir across the web. PayPal apologized for this by way of the PayPal blog. SVP, Technology Scott Guilfoyle wrote : At around 10:30 am PT Monday,

Adopting Social Media For Internal Use

Results from an interesting study with a different spin on social media were released by Nielsen Norman Group . These things often look at social media adoption by businesses, but this one looks specifically at social media adoption within enterprise intranets. The study found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets began as underground, grassroots efforts by front-line employees.
The Street View function in Google Maps is designed to get up close and personal, providing users 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street level views. Google sends cars fitted with special cameras and other equipment to roam the countryside of various countries, taking pictures and matching images to a specific location using GPS devices. Street View even found Heaven in Brooklyn , according to the New York Times.

Tough Times for the Post Office

by Mike Krumboltz People have been complaining about the U.S. Postal Service for years. Rates rise and people scream bloody murder. The service announces a huge annual loss and people wonder at the incompetence. Still, despite the obvious problems, most folks just assumed the post office would always be around to whine about. Not so fast, Bucko. The Postal Service has assembled a list of nearly 700 offices that may be closed of consolidated. That's out of a total of 32,
Police departments may not start issuing cops Facebook accounts along with their handcuffs and guns, but at least one officer feels that the social network is a valuable tool. Constable Scott Mills shared his thoughts on the Facebook Blog this afternoon. Mills is a member of the Toronto Police Service, and wrote , "For the last two years, I have used my Facebook account, as well as Facebook groups, events and Pages,

YouTube Gets Its Own AdSense

YouTube may have just begun implementing its real moneymaker. The world's most popular video site is now essentially offering its own AdSense-style program. That comparison comes straight from the horse's mouth, mind you. Last year, YouTube launched "Promoted Vidoeos." Now they are putting those on watch pages in the "related videos" section.
by Paul Jahn Since its birth in 2006, Google's Website Optimizer has been a darling child of savvy webmasters and advertisers alike. Google has added a new feature that potentially makes this tool even more special by allowing you to automatically disable your under-performing experiments. Here's a quick how-to: 1) For WO newbies, or those of us who forget stuff. If you haven't used Website Optimizer or want to brush up, here's a handy (and quick) tutorial.