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The Top 20 Global Social Video Ads of 2011 From Unruly
Unruly has announced the 2011 top 20 Global Social Video Ads Chart in partnership with Mashable. Topping the chart were Darth Vader, a Hollywood…
Yahoo Hits $610 Million Jackpot in Lottery Scam Case
A U.S. district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of Yahoo, ordering the defendants to pay $583 million in damages from…
Google Celebrates 10 Billion Android Market Downloads With App Sale
Google's Android Market has delivered its 10 billionth application download and is offering 10 days of special promotions during which selected apps will be…
Zuckerberg Photo Leak Highlights Facebook’s Privacy Problem
A group of Facebook users disclosed a flaw and some of Mark Zuckerberg's personal images. While the incident was limited in scope, the underlying…
Google+ Stream Filtering Upgrade In Works
Google plans to add filtering mechanisms to Google+, allowing users to receive more relevant social content as the company seeks to challenge rival Facebook.…
Google Currents Magazine-Style App Debuts on Tablets & Smartphones
Google's long-anticipated social reading platform for Android and iOS has launched. Google Currents gives consumers access to 180 digital publications while giving publishers a…
Google Launches Interactive Rich Media Ads for Tablet Advertising
Google has launched new interactive rich media ad templates to help marketers engage consumers using tablet devices. The new ad formats are touch screen…
Twitter Redesign Adds Brand Pages, Embeddable Tweets
Twitter unveiled a new site design yesterday during an event at the site of its future headquarters. The major revamp includes enhanced profile pages,…
Facebook Launches Subscribe Button for Websites as Timelines Begin Rollout
After several months of beta access, Facebook has begun their global Timeline rollout, starting with New Zealand. Facebook also launched a Subscribe button for…
B2B SEO 2012 Strategy Planning: 4 Recommendations
B2B marketers can use data from a recent digital marketing report to benchmark the digital marketing landscape, support (or refute) current initiatives, and establish…
PPC Isn’t Just For Ecommerce: Holiday Trends For the Rest of Us
Turn the typical holiday PPC madness on its head. Here’s how to manage PPC accounts that defy the ecommerce hullabaloo during the year-end holidays…
StumbleUpon Gets Massive, Mobile-Inspired Redesign
StumbleUpon has done an overhaul, introducing numerous features and aesthetic changes. The updates are inspired in part by recent exponential growth in mobile use;…
Is Diego Rivera Google Doodle a Nod to the 99%?
Today's Google Logo honors the 125th birthday of Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Whilst there is plenty of artistic allusion in the piece, there may…
Win a free trip to SES New York or SES London in 2012!
Have you ever had an idea for a topic for a session you would love to see on one of our SES conference agendas?…
Yahoo Image Searches Get Infinite Scrolls, Social Sharing
Yahoo has updated its image search with two significant new features. Searchers can now scroll infinitely through the results and share images they like…
Google Adds Graphing Capabilities to Search Results
Google has made their search bar into a graphing calculator. When you type in a mathematical function (trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic) on Google, the…
Video Ad Views Grew 128% in 2011
As online videos and media-based monetization of that content become more mainstream, ad views have skyrocketed. This year has seen 97 percent video view…
Google-Mozilla Firefox Search Deal Expires, Partnership Status Uncertain
Mozilla's search partnership with Google expired at the end of November, but neither company has indicated a renewal. The Firefox search deal historically accounted…
Cyber Week Breaks 4 Records, Nears $6 Billion Mark
The online rush for holiday gifts has broken multiple records. Three days during Cyber Week exceeded $1 billion in U.S. spend, and the week…
Facebook Acquires Gowalla, Tests Negative Feedback Feature, Expands in NYC
Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operation; is testing…