By Michelle Kung Literally moments after the news about the devastating earthquake in Haiti hit the airwaves Tuesday evening, Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean tweeted a message to his almost 1.4 million followers: “Please text ‘Yéle’ to 501501 to donate $5 to Yéle Haiti. Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help.” And [...] Read more »
Local Search Predictions for 2010
Though 2009 was a tough year for some Yellow Pages directory publishers, the industry is entering 2010 with “fresh optimism,” according to Neg Norton, president of the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), who noted that small businesses are beginning to show signs of recovery and growth. At the same time, publishers are diversifying their business models [...] Read more »
With MyLikes.com, Ex-Googlers Want to Build the Next AdSense
By Liz Gannes Jan. 5, 2010, 11:15pm Google’s AdSense is brilliant in that it very simply provides relevant contextual ads across millions of web pages. But what if you make that process a little less automated and provide ads that are endorsed by the creators of those web pages? So instead of an algorithmically matched [...] Read more »
Startups Cash in on Twitter With Pay-Per-Tweet
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, January 12, 2010 In his Twitter stream from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last weekend, actor-director LeVar Burton beamed a different kind of tweet to his 1.57 million followers: “Be the 1st to own a NEW Sony bloggie camera RT for a chance to win #SonyCES http://bit.ly/6OccaR [...] Read more »
How Twitter Was Born: the First 140 Users
If you signed up for Twitter in early 2006, you may be among the first 140 users… though only one Briton is. Do you know who? Do you remember what you were doing back in the spring of 2006? The first users of Twitter probably do – they were signing up for the new service [...] Read more »