Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Do Consumers Care About Web Privacy?
Freaking out about the easier opt-outs proposed by some online-privacy advocates? Maybe you don’t have so much to worry about.
Freaking out about the easier opt-outs proposed by some online-privacy advocates? Maybe you don’t have so much to worry about.
Twitter’s been the toast of TV news programs, daytime talk shows, magazine editors and newspaper reporters. But what’s all that chatter worth?
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen countless stories about the “Oprah effect” on Twitter — TechCrunch suggested more than one million people signed up and many a blog linked to Hitwise data that suggested the talk-show doyenne’s endorsement of the service led to a 43 percent spike in Twitter traffic.
A month ago Dennis Woodside was running Google’s U.K., Ireland and Benelux business out of London, thinking that’s where he and his family would be for at least a few more years.
There are two places most of today’s laid-off executives are heading: to job-search sites to see what other opportunities are out there and to networking sites in hopes they can reconnect with–and milk leads from–former colleagues and business contacts. One site, LinkedIn, offers both of those things in one place.
Google is borrowing from its most successful money-minting product, search ads, to goose revenue on its video-sharing site YouTube.
Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. While that figure is a source of pride for the Google-owned video-sharing site, for marketers and amateur video creators attempting to get their video found, it’s downright daunting.
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