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SearchEngineWorld Monday, January 26, 2009 Daily News Tracker
Welcome to the Monday, January 26 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Wikipedia restricting public editing, YouTube adding comment deletion feature, Google responds to FeedBurner criticism, Google looks back at last year of spam fighting, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
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 5:46 pm on Jan. 26, 2009 (utc 0)

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Wikipedia May Restrict Public's Ability to Change Entries

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/wikipedia-may-restrict-publics-ability-to-change-entries/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7851400.stm
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234986/wikipedia-mulls-limiting-user
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_restrict_public_c.php
http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3834798.htm

Yahoo's New chief executive Carol Bartz to Deliver Bad News, Lay Out Her Plan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123292162720313593.html
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/technology/mehta_microsoft.fortune/index.htm
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/25/yahoo-earns-preview-tech-ebiz-cx_rb_0126yahoo.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10149648-93.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/yahoo_freeze_pay/
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090126/coach-carol-are-they-crying-theres-no-crying-theres-no-crying-at-yahoo/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99025
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090125/carol-bartzs-first-week-at-yahoo-memo-to-the-troops/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/everyone-expects-yahoo-ceo-bartz-to-announce-a-plan-tomorrow

YouTube as direct messanger for new administration

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/us/politics/26grassroots.html

Senator asks Microsoft about job cuts, visas

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50M6M220090124
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234987/senator-asks-microsoft-sack
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/senator-to-microsoft-what-was-that-you-said-about-wanting-more-h-1b-workers-msft
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Job-Cuts-Visas-Questioned-by-Senator/

Step aside, here comes Google with strong results in tough economic times

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/01/23/step-aside-here-comes-google/

Google offers response to criticism of its RSS feed-management service, FeedBurner

http://www.centernetworks.com/google-feedburner-olechowski
http://mashable.com/2009/01/25/googles-feedburner-criticism/
http://www.inquisitr.com/16443/google-responds-to-feedburner-critics-the-translated-version/

Microsoft delays Iowa data centre plans

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/microsoft_iowa_data_centre_postponed/

Microsoft merges Windows Live with Office Live

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/microsoft_office_live_windows_live/

Defense Department Mimics Google in Cloud Computing

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=afc7BEZTIyJ0

Google promotes Knol in Dummies.com deal

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-become-dummiescom-author.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235055/google-finally-promotes-knol
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-knol/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=852
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/why-has-knol-survived-googles-orphan-project-killing-spree-goog
(related: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/25/why-google-knol-is-no-wikipedia/ )

InfoWorld asks: How secure is Google's Chrome Web browser?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/26/04TC-chrome-security_1.html

YouTube adds comment deletion feature

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=HmzQr6eg96I
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/26/youtube-now-lets-you-erase-those-dumb-comments-you-regret-you-made/

MediaPost: Moving Toward Rational Search Engine Marketing Agency Procurement

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=99045

Write-Down Worse For AOL Than Google

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98984

Flurry signs up hundreds of Apple iPhone and Google Android developers for its analytics tool

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/flurry-launches-iphone-and-android-developer-analytics-tools/

Lucid Imagination: Open source competition in enterprise search

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/25/lucid-imagination-open-source-competition-in-enterprise-search/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3326

Microsoft’s Chris Early, head of Games for Windows Live, among the layoffs

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/24/microsofts-chris-early-head-of-games-for-windows-live-among-the-layoffs/

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students: ZDNet

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2052

Google improves detection of new "Googlebombs"

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/01/detecting-new-googlebombs.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/defuse-googlebomb/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3834458.htm

Guardian: Google plans to make PCs history

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/25/google-drive-gdrive-internet

Google ready to pursue its agenda in Washington

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google24-2009jan24,0,925500.story

Google looks back at last year of spam fighting

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-year-in-spam.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/look-back-at-spam-in-2008.html

WEB / OTHER

Report: VC infusion values Twitter at $250 million

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10149663-93.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/24/twitter-raising-new-cash-at-250-million-valuation/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jan/26/twitter-startups
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_possibly_valued_at_250.php
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/twitter-raising-money-at-020-per-tweet-valuation
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Twitter-Valuation-Reaches-250-Million/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/24/in-dry-times-twitter-going-back-to-the-funding-well/
http://www.inquisitr.com/16385/gtfo-twitter-said-to-have-raised-new-round-on-250-million-valuation/
http://gigaom.com/2009/01/25/twitter-said-to-be-raising-more-cash-valued-at-250-million/

VeriSign to buy Certicom; RIM backs out

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE50M2DV20090123
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/blackberry/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212902310

TinyURL Being Used to Bypass Safe Browsing Filters in Firefox, Chrome

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tinyurl_being_used_to_bypass_safe_browsing_filters.php

Discovery video clips move online

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/technology/internet/26vault.html
(related: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/24/smashlab-appeals-to-discovery-channel-to-suck-less/ )

Problems With Your Checking Account? Try Twitter

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/problems-with-your-checking-account-try-twitter/

Cellphones as Credit Cards? Americans Must Wait

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25proto.html

See the Web Site, Buy the Book

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Sullivan-t.html

Social media mapping as a business tool

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123273549517510905.html

Windows Mobile 6.5 released to manufacturers

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/26/windows-mobile-6-5-released-to-manufacturers/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10149349-56.html
(related: Microsoft refocuses on mobile services)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/26/microsoft.mobile/index.html

Adobe opens Flash streaming protocol, keeps DRM a secret

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/01/adobe-opens-flash-streaming-protocol-keeps-drm-a-secret.ars

Accusations fly as another director of Nominet, the not-for-profit in charge of the .uk domain registry, quits

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/davies_nominet_resignation/

FriendFeed nears 1 million visitors with tenfold increase over past six months: comScore

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/25/friendfeed-hits-nearly-one-million-users-grew-tenfold-in-the-past-six-months/

Hyperlink case goes to court this week: GateHouse Media Inc. versus The New York Times Company

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hyperlinks_the_end_of_online_j.php

Condé Nast Remakes Digital Strategy

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i4c3f11f84ef6a0b1ccfcd2ce35be5452

Websites 'must be saved for history': Head of British Library

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/25/preserving-digital-archive

London Times: Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article5587116.ece

 


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