I can’t possibly let this news go by without saying something. Spain, Great Britain, USA, France, Colombia, Venezuela, the whole world is celebrating Ingrid Betancourt’s release from captivity. The rescue operation was brilliant as the Colombian militia posed as rebels by disguising themselves with Che Guevara T-shirts, which immediately led hostages to thinking ‘now [...]
Posted in Media News on July 3rd, 2008This time its for real. No more pranks or April Fool’s jokes of the sort. Google is launching a space race open to enthusiasts worth $20million. The space race is known as Google Lunar X Prize; and its quest is for a privately funded team to develop its own robot, send the robot off into [...]
Posted in Media News on June 23rd, 2008It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. What do we know about Microsoft and Yahoo!. The latest is that supposedly, they’ve called it quits.
Yahoo! issued a communication declaring that all intentions and possible transactions regarding what could have been a partial or ‘all out’ merge with Microsoft, have come to an end. ‘With respect [...]
We know Google has clearly established if not the most powerful and recognized brand in the history of online marketing. At least if anyone were to mention the word internet to me, the first thing that pops in my mind is Google, and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there (except some really [...]
Posted in Media News on June 10th, 2008Referring back to Riccardo’s article on Google’s trademark policy, this is now becoming a very serious issue that has started to be brought into trial. The problem lies in that small advertisers have been using the tactic known as ‘piggybacking’ where they insert BIG advertiser brand names, and slogans into text ads in order to [...]
Posted in Media News on June 5th, 2008Wow! three partnerships in such short notice. Seems like Yahoo!’s intentions are to build up on resources and maximize its services to be able to squeeze all the possible juice out of the next ‘buy out’ offer (be it Microsoft or whomever comes next).
As you may have already heard, amongst the various deals Yahoo! [...]
Its impressive how Barack Obama & Co. is using the power of internet to diffuse his campaign messages and market himself as candidate to US’s upcoming elections. And we’re not talking plain and simple slogans, or silly jingles. His efforts go from fund raising, to videos on YouTube, advertising, and even job postings! Obama has [...]
Posted in Media News on May 30th, 2008Recent reports say AOL is branching off to create specialized websites in order to reach a wider audience. Because internet users have become more and more, let’s say, picky, in terms of where they search and what they search for, it is best to adapt to them than to try and shape up people’s minds.
So [...]
In order to avoid a bundle of unwanted images following a search query, Google is diligently working on providing their new VisualRank tool, which is still under research but soon to be brought live.
Very similar to the PageRank tool, the VisualRank will filter images so that only those ‘highly ranked’ will appear given the related [...]
I’m not really sure how serious I should take this piece of information, but I think I’ll let you be the judge of it.
I’m also surprised I haven’t heard much fuzz regarding the new venture Google and Virgin have recently plotted ;-). The idea is to colonize Mars and actually reach a population of approx. [...]
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