by Mike on April 27, 2009
To serve emerging markets, companies like YouTube need to invest in expensive servers, but ad revenue for those countries doesn’t cover those additional costs.read more | digg story
by Mike on April 27, 2009
The act of Googling oneself has become the digital age’s premiere guilty pleasure — an activity enjoyed by all and admitted by few. The phenomenon has even been the subject of scholarly research. Last year, a team of Swiss and Australian social scientists published a study concluding that the practice of self-Googling (or “Egosurfing” as (…)
by Mike on April 27, 2009
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Facebook will open up most if not all of their user-contributed data to developers at a developer event tomorrow.Could this take us one step closer to the ultimate live stream of real-time events?read more | digg story
by Mike on April 25, 2009
In a spare one-room office at Nasa’s Silicon Valley campus, a small band of futurists is plotting to save the world. read more | digg story
by Mike on April 25, 2009
iGoogle is Google’s popular homepage product, where users can create custom homepages with widgets and unique backgrounds. Google released iGoogle gaming themes last month, but this new discovery might be a whole lot more interesting: there is an iGoogle gadget floating around with functionality similar to Digg, called What’s Popular.read more | digg story