Internet News Highlights 7-15-07
Here are some Internet and web surfing news highlights from around the Web.- Live Earth sets record with 10 million video streams.
- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey caught making comments on Yahoo stock forum about a competitor.
- Nearly half of U.S. residents have broadband but the rate of adoption is slowing.
- There are some positive iPhone reviews. The web surfing aspect of the iPhone has been better received than the phone part.
- Web humor: So this is how the mouse moves the arrow on your PC?
- FTC says net neutrality is not needed. FTC statement.
- Xerox has created a search engine called FactSpotter that searches through documents and returns relevant answers .
- Read/WriteWeb has some details about Spock, vertical search engine for people currently in private beta.
- Study finds major differences between MySpace and Facebook users .
- Friendster comeback? Friendster see 40% pageview boost in May .
- Funny video: I can be your Facebook Stalker.
- Mahalo, new human-powered search engine, now paying guides to create search results.
- Ebay takes on Criaglist with its new classified service called Kijiji.
- Google Video is now a video search engine.
- Sometimes SatNav navigation should be ignored.
- Jason Calacanis' new human-powered search engine called Mahalo has launched.
- About.com lists ten things you didn't know you could do with RSS.
- Google has launched a street level viewing feature. See it here.
- Interesting story about Kevin Ham who built a $300 million empire out of buying/selling domain names.
- A gadget news microblog has launched.
- MySpace acquires a widget photo, video creating tool called Flektor.
- A good recap of Google's Searchology Day.
- Traffic to newspapers from search engines is increasing.
- Not having a web presence or web profile could hurt job seekers.
- Google's personalized homepage service becomes iGoogle.
- AOL gets a blogish redesign.
- The six stages of email.
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel resigns. Taking his place will be Jerry Yang
- Microsoft introduces Surface computing.
- A peer-to-peer network for vehicles that could pinpoint trouble spots is a possibility.
- Slate article about "How Netvibes helped me cram the whole Internet onto a single screen."
- ChaCha startup search engine provides web search combined with human guides.
- Ask.com is launching a new search algorithm that is based on Teoma and Direct Hit.
- Chinese and English multilingual search engine called Juxit has launched.
- Comcast cuts off "bandwidth hogs."
- Google launches MyMaps which has personalization features.
- Zoominfo claims to have profiles on 35 million people and over 3.8 million companies.
Posted on July 15, 2007
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