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– „Notice there aren’t any ads on the page. This is because ads for “afghanistan war” generate such low revenues per query that Google doesn’t think it’s worth hurting the user experience with a cluttered page. Google can afford to do this on news queries (along with many other categories of queries) because their real business is selling ads on queries where the user likely has purchasing intent. Big money-making categories include travel, consumer electronics and malpractice lawyers. News queries are loss leaders.“

– „No longer is our problem lack of information; it’s that we’re drowning in information.

– „Oh, and he points out, that the iPad will have a “fantastic browser.” No matter how many iPads the Apple sells, the Web will always be the bigger market. “There are 2 billion people on the Web,” he says. “The iPad will be a huge success if it sells 5 million units.”“1

– „We’re still in the early days of networked bots vying for and against our interests. The attacking bots so far have been mostly unfocussed, broadcasted out widely in hopes of catching someone. We’re just starting to see the rise of targeted malware, coded with information about the specific person(s) it is trying to reach. The offense is learning tactics and strategy. The defense needs to step up its game. Defensive bots now are specific to particular communications media, monitoring twitter or email or telephone.

– „Ich möchte Rivva gerne weiterentwickeln und weitere Server / Compute Capacity anschaffen, benötige dazu allerdings Unterstützung. Deshalb führt Rivva heute Sponsor Posts ein.“

Nachträglich auch von hier alles Gute! Rivva ist eines der wenigen Glanzlichter im deutschen Web. Mögen die Corporate Blogs für die Sponsorposts Schlange stehen.

– „n fact, Topix is the number one result for a ton of small towns across the country. That’s what happens when you’ve been aggregating local news for six years.“

– „Google steht in dieser Schlacht paradigmatisch für zwei Dinge: für unerwartete und unerwünschte Konkurrenz auf dem Werbemarkt und für die Öffnung des Meinungsmarktes. Google hat geschafft, was keinem Verlag gelungen ist: einen Milliardenumsatz im deutschen Werbemarkt zu erwirtschaften.

– „Dass aber DIESELBEN PERSONEN es noch einmal versuchen dürfen – das liegt daran, dass es bei uns leider nicht üblich ist, dass gezielter Verfassungsbruch personelle Konsequenzen hat. Personelle Konsequenzen gibt es bei vagen Hitlervergleichen, fragwürdigem Dienstwagengebrauch und Flugzeugmissbrauch – die Verfassung zu schänden ist unproblematisch.

– „It’s one thing to make content available in a standard format – but making some basic actions transmittable and standardized would make the prospect of communication across networks all the more real and powerful. „

– Und ein weiteres gutes Webprodukt geht an Google. Was macht eigentlich Microsoft diese Tage?

– „Facebook introduced the verb to „friend.“ Chatroulette has introduced „nexted.“ „

– „With an Amazon S3 account, you can do an automatic back up to the cloud with a WordPress plugin called Automatic WordPress Back Up.“

– „David suggested that the way to combat the unflattering photo of you is to „post lots of flattering ones.“

David’s point is that you can’t control what other people do (tag you in photos, post pictures you’d rather not see online, say awful things about you), but you can control what the Internet sees about you by overwhelming it with your social media presence.“

– „Was haben Belgien, Dänemark, Portugal, Singapur, Süd-Korea und Deutschland gemeinsam?

– „Looking at the latest Admob report for January, it looks like Android will soon overtake iPhone in smartphone traffic for the United States. In the latest monthly report Android now accounts for 39% of smartphone requests compared to 47% for iPhone OS.“

wow.

– „A patent like this should never have been approved at all, as it serves no useful purpose in „promoting the progress“ and seems to go against everything that the patent system is supposed to do.“