For the second time in a month, Google Adwords advertisers are upset over drops in quality scores. Some are claiming that this has resulted in higher costs, but we haven’t seen that yet. “We don’t believe it to be a new issue, but are looking into [the situation],” a Google Read more…
In what some are referring to the end to the battle for dominance in the social media war, MySpace has introduced Facebook Mashup. Basically, MySpace will use information in your Facebook profile to stream content updates through Facebook Connect. “Sharing entertainment and music interests is part of many of our Read more…
Have you heard about Path yet? It’s apparently the newest social network on the block and it’s model is the complete opposite of Facebook and Twitter. Whereas the latter two are all about building your huge empire of friends, family and associates, Path limits you to just 50 friends. It’s Read more…
Perhaps you’ve heard about Facebook’s new “non-mail” system. According to the folks at Facebook, it combines email with SMS, IM and texting. Based on who you ask, this could be a good or a bad thing. We are reserving judgment until we actually get to, you know, use it. But Read more…
Kanye West recently went on the Today Show with Matt Lauer to address some things from his past. Specifically, he apologized to George Bush for saying that he “didn’t care about black people” during a national telethon to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims. But, they also went on to Read more…
This was good to see. We are huge fans of ProFootballTalk.com, a huge football news site that was recently purchased by NBC Sports. I think Mike Florio and company do some two million unique users per month. That’s a ton. And while the layout hasn’t changed, Florio tells us today Read more…
So, Large Media went down to the Bahamas for a week and we come back to this. Facebook has yet again tweaked the look and feel of their site in order to enhance the user experience, even if that “enhancement” means that it’s tougher to read. That’s right, Facebook just Read more…
As we continue to watch in amazement as Twitter grows exponentially by the day, it is still baffling that they haven’t really been able to monetize it. Sure, they’ve probably made a couple of bucks, but considering that has an Alexa rank of 9, it should be raking in more Read more…
If you are like me (and you should hope you aren’t for a lot of reasons), you get extremely annoyed that other people on Facebook feel the need to spam the living hell out of you with their game updates. “Hey, I just got a new fence!”, or “Here’s a Read more…
We aren’t exactly sure what this says about our society, but it is what it is. As of this posting, Lady Gaga has 5,725,109 followers (could be 5,725,110 if we decide to follow her too), making her the most followed person on the popular micro-blogging site. That is pretty unreal. Read more…