Google has updated their Google library by collaborating with Monotype Imaging to produce a faster font library. Google released MicroType Express compression as part of the Embedded OpenType converter in the open-source sfntly library. One very exciting component is that web designer teams won’t need to update their existing implementations relying on Google web fonts [...]

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According to A Tale of Two Studies: Establishing Google & BING Click-Through Rates by Slingshot, only 52% of Google users click on organic search results on the first page of Google. Bing is even worse with only 26% users clicking on search results for page one listings. Prior CTR studies showed a higher CTR. It [...]

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Google has begun initial talks to buy Hulu–a pioneer in online video broadcast. Other initial prospects include Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo, as Hulu tries to drum up interest in a sale.  Yahoo made an initial overture, which got the video company excited. Hulu’s financial supporters are Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, which have set up [...]

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Hackers created a pirate version of PBS and planted a seed of a fake story that Tupac Shakur, an American rapper that died in 1996, was alive and well–living in New Zealand. The intrusion on PBS’s servers happened late Sunday night, and Anne Bentley, the PBS president, issued a statement very early Monday morning announcing [...]

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Ironpaper launches the NYCBusinessNetwork.org, which is a marketing tool for small and medium sized businesses and non-profit organizations in the New York City area. The Network supports three primary feature-sets: A member network of business profile listings, which is a paid service to help promote and create visibility for businesses and organizations as a form [...]

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Google settled the FTC complaint that the company used deceptive tactics that violated consumer privacy when it launched it’s social media service, Buzz. Specifically, when Buzz launched, Google used personal Gmail data from its users to populate the Buzz service without their permission. Google’s privacy statement stated they they would not use Gmail data for [...]

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Facebook is close to trademarking the word “Face” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On Tuesday, Facebook was notified that it can proceed to the next phase of the trademark process by illustrating the term’s usage in the real world and online way once it has become a trademarked term. The trademark for [...]

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Web Designer NY put out a brief outline of HTML 5, and what it will be for web designers. It is a very high-level look at the new core language for the web. We found this useful for those that are not familiar with the features of HTML 5, but might be interested in learning [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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