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Monthly Archives: March 2009

03.31.09 / Google Looks to Link TV, YouTube Advertising Businesses

Google is developing technology that would connect its TV advertising business to YouTube, giving marketers a seamless way to buy advertising space on both venues, as well as additional websites, reports the Wall Street Journal.  Such technology is vital for … Read more »

03.31.09 / Facebook, Adobe Announce Partnership

Facebook and Adobe have announced a partnership to bring Facebook developers support for the ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library on the Facebook platform.  The partnership announcement comes a day after it was announced that social networking rival MySpace had forged a … Read more »

03.31.09 / Rethinking Free in a Down Economy

Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life.  The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession of 2008-2009, … Read more »

03.30.09 / IBM to Cut US Jobs, Transfer US Jobs to India

In a move straight out the old economy, IBM announced plans to lay off around 5,000 US employees, and transfer many of those jobs to India, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The job cuts target IBM’s global business services unit, … Read more »

03.30.09 / Disney to Hulu: Now We Want In

Last summer, ABC/Disney gave Hulu the Heisman, saying that the company did not foresee making ABC/Disney content available outside of its own player.  But now it may be time for ABC/Disney to make a quick about face. Could it be … Read more »

03.27.09 / Get Paid for Selling Ads in Your Tweets

Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal reports that German company Magpie & Friends has started paying Twitter users for the right to sell ads in their tweets. The system works like this.  Using an auction system, potential advertisers bid … Read more »

03.27.09 / Government Offers Assistance to Homeowners Via the Web

Trying to refinance a first mortgage but having trouble because the value of your house has decreased?  Struggling to make your mortgage payments because of an increase in your interest rate or a decrease in your income?  Well, the Federal … Read more »

03.27.09 / Sony, Google Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle

In what appears to be a direct shot at the Amazon Kindle, Sony and Google are teaming up to give users of the Sony Reader access to more than 500,000 public domain books from Google Books, Google’s book digitization project, … Read more »

03.26.09 / Anchor Tweets: A Good Deal, or Too Much Information?

According to Howard Kurtz, writing in the Washington Post, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator David Gregory tweets in real time with his Twitter followers.  Nightline co-anchor Terry Morgan offered Twitter updates on the day he traveled on Air Force One … Read more »

03.26.09 / Boxee Software Turns Your Computer into a Cable TV Competitor

New York-based Boxee makes open source software that promises to turn your computer—when connected to your television—into a true entertainment experience, featuring streaming content from websites like Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.  That’s not all, either:  it can … Read more »