Time Magazine recently published a list of the “Top 50 Worst Inventions” and the list included both mega-hits: Zynga’s online game Farmville and the location-based social application Foursquare. The buzz for both these web applications has been extraordinary. Foursquare for instance has almost 1 million checkins per day. Farmville now has 30 million virtual farms [...]
Entries from May 2010
Time Magazine Lists Foursquare and Farmville As Top Worst Inventions
May 30th, 2010 · 6:22 am
Tags: social, web
US Piracy List Points To China As Top Offender
May 23rd, 2010 · 11:18 pm
A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other [...]
Tags: economy, government, internet, publishing, technology
FTC Approves Google AdMob Deal
May 22nd, 2010 · 12:55 am
The Federal Trade Commission approved the Google AdMob deal, saying that the deal “is unlikely to harm competition in the emerging market for mobile advertising networks.” AdMob has seen great success in advertising for the iPhone platform. Yet, even with the $750 million dollar deal to buy AdMob, Google will not have a confident guaranty [...]
Tags: advertising, mobile, web
Third Party Web Developers Can Now Build Apps For Gmail
May 19th, 2010 · 5:00 pm
Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook. The goal in [...]
Tags: business, email, google, web
Webdesigner-newyork.com launches
May 11th, 2010 · 12:11 am
Webdesigner-newyork.com, a subsidiary of Ironpaper, Inc. launched today. The site will focus on NYC market for web design and development and content management. The site will market to small and medium sized businesses with a less-is-more approach to design. Visit: Web designer New York
Tags: web
Craigslist Subpoenaed By Connecticut’s Attorney General Over Sex Ads
May 4th, 2010 · 7:05 am
The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]
Tags: business, economy, government, law, security, web
