Monday, June 22, 2009
AdSense: The (Weak) Elephant in the Room
A few years ago, we spoke of the “AdSense Economy.” It was so simple. Create a website, slap on an AdSense widget, and voila: “Insta-biz.”
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Random Beauty of “25 Random Things”
Facebook is supposed to be a safe haven for drunk teenagers who want to post pictures of themselves vomiting. These simple pleasures were being undermined by this solipsistic intruder, “25 Random Things About Me.” But once you stop being annoyed you realize that, at its best, it’s one of the more compelling wastes of time to hit the Web in years.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Social Networkers Want TV Airtime
Social networkers are looking to score some airtime, with 36 percent of them wanting to access their networks via TV screens, according to an ABI Research survey released Thursday. Intel and Yahoo are both looking into the convergence of social networking and TV.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Carbon Widget Reaches 1 Million
You can thank this blog post for even more carbon emissions in the atmosphere. That’s because Web hosting is largely powered by fossil fuel power plants and computers run on electricity. To help bring a little carbon transparency to Web sites, including those in our good ol’ blogosphere, two student entrepreneurs–Alex Wissner-Gross at Harvard and Tim Sullivan at Yale–have developed the CO2 Stats Project, a widget that tracks visitors to Web sites, calculates the sites’ carbon emissions and offsets the lot. Wissner-Gross and Sullivan tell us that their widget, launched at the end of October, has grown to more than one million unique visitors viewing it each month across about 700 sites.
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