The Khronos Group, who produce open standards for media authoring, have announced a partnership with Mozilla, the company behind the FireFox browser, to create “an open, royalty-free standard for bringing accelerated 3D graphics to the Web” (Khronos.org).
The web standard protocols would provide the facility to produce javascript web applications through a future Mozilla FireFox browser [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
A 3D browser experience within a year
March 26, 2009 – 4:24 pm
Twitter continues to surge forward in 2009
March 25, 2009 – 2:55 pm
As Facebook makes drastic changes to its pages to adapt to the real-time methodology that Twitter has embraced, it would be a good time to take stock of how Twitter is developing in light of it’s much stronger competition. With 3rd party web and desktop apps continually being innovated with the high quality content on offer, [...]
Google makes improvements to search results
March 25, 2009 – 2:47 pm
Google yesterday announced on it’s official blog the release of two new improvements to it’s search results pages. The first of which includes an improved algorithim and expanded list for related search terms. Secondly they have enlarged the result descriptions when a longtail search term has been queried.
For example, searching for the term “search marketing” [...]
Google’s behavioural targeting: Great revenue for Google, or great ROI for advertisers?
March 24, 2009 – 1:12 pm
Google recently announced they would be using data from the websites we visit and content interacted with from their various services, to deliver behavioral targeted AdSense ads.
This was no real surprise, with Google continuing to build upon their display offering, and growing their content network.
Theoretically, it could only be of benefit to Google’s partners and [...]
Twitter trialling ads on profile pages
March 17, 2009 – 12:02 pm
News reaches us this morning from www.thenextweb.com that Twitter is trialling advertising on profile pages. The advertising is small and unobtrusive and is currently being trialled with internal messages only.
Time will tell if this becomes a key revenue stream. It is a good step for Twitter but the real challenge is how to monetise the [...]
