| Yipee! Microsoft Enters the Social Media Monitoring Space 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta Microsoft is building a social media monitoring tool called Looking Glass. Now, at this point, you’re probably thinking that I’m panicking. After all, isn’t that what my own company, Trackur, does? Aren’t I scared stiff that Microsoft will hurt my business? Nope. In fact, when I spoke to Microsoft e ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Twitter About to Get Mo’ Money 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is on the edge of raising another 0 million in VC from around seven investors. Just last week the scuttlebutt was that this round was going to be in the range of million but hey, what’s an extra million amongst friends, right? The Journal reports Twi ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Judge Shuts Down Innocent User’s Gmail Account Over a Bank’s Screw-up! 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta It’s bad enough that financial institutions are screwing up our economy, they’re now screwing up our privacy and freedom of speech! U.S. District Court Judge James Ware, in the northern district of California, just issued a court order forcing Google to shut down a Gmail account and turn over users ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| You’re Doing What Where? 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta Twitter asks “What are you doing?” and people respond in 140 character max chunks of ‘wisdom’ ranging from helpful to inane. As the rest of the world gets used to what many technophiles have known for years they will have the opportunity shortly to not only know what someone is doing but where they ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Google Chrome: 40x Faster at Attracting Malware in Internet Explorer 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta Whether you saw Google’s attempts to insert Chrome into Internet Explorer as genius or evil, both sides just upped the ante. First Google. OK, technically Google didn’t thump it’s chest over these startling numbers… IE7 using Chrome Frame is about 40 times faster at running through the SunSpider Jav ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Social Media Ad Spend on the Rise 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta The headline alone should not be a surprise to anyone who is in the marketing, and particularly the Internet marketing, space because despite the economy social media is on the rise. The number of users and the amount of time spent on various social media sites has seen the ‘hockey stick’ kind of gr ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Rare Video Footage: MSFT’s Steve Ballmer Sitting In–Not Throwing–a Chair! 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta It’s always nice to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually sitting on a chair, as opposed to throwing one. In this video, he chats with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington about a host of Microsoft initiatives. Mid-way through, he discusses search… …the UI, the approach, the algorithms have changed les ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
| Friday Fun: DailyBooth Caption Contest 42 days ago by Prashant Kumar Pracheta If you’re not familiar with DailyBooth.com, the best way to describe it is it’s like Twitter, but with snapshots of your face. Yeah I know, sounds lame, right? Except that I can help but laugh out loud every time Dream Systems Media owner Matt Siltala posts his latest mugshot to DailyBooth–which he ... Search Point - searchpoint.in |
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