Amazon.com had indicated they will be offering a free usage tier for its Amazon Web Services. With this announcement, Amazon takes a giant step from establishing themselves as a retailer-only, to a retailer also doing business as a technology company. Effective November 1, all new AWS users will be offered a myriad of free [...]
“Chromeless”, an experimental project developed by Mozilla allowing developers to create their own browser interfaces using HTML, JavaScript, and other web technologies, has just been released. Mozilla developed the browser with the belief that they should be more customizable, and Chromeless is their pre-alpha experimental answer. The browser utilizes iframes instead of XUL, and [...]
Good news for Google AdSense users: Google has announced via their AdSense blog that they are currently testing an expanded version of category blocking, known as general category blocking. Google explained further by indicating that general category blocking allows users to block even more categories of ads from appearing on their site. As of [...]
Yahoo, Inc. has announced that Dapper, an company dealing in both creating and optimizing display ad campaigns, is now Yahoo’s property. The acquisition should excite Yahoo fans for several reasons as Dapper has an impressive list of clients and partners (DoubleClick, Expedia, Microsoft, etc.) and also, Yahoo happens to be a current partner of Dapper’s. [...]
Reports indicate that Google is testing a feature in its search results pages that allows users to see full-page previews of sites before clicking through to get to them. The test involves highlighting certain sections of a web page in orange and expanding the text to provide a snippet of information. The snippets that [...]
