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Our own Twellow service, which serves as something of a yellow pages directory for Twitter, has added a new feature called "Twellow Pulse." It is designed to give you an idea of the status, or "pulse", of what's going on at any given time within each its categories. Twellow Pulse does the following:read more

Shane Richmond writing at Telegraph.co.uk has an interesting piece up about whether or not online newspaper content should be free.read more

There's no escaping it: News Corp had a rough quarter. Rupert Murdoch thinks times will be tough for a while, too. But even as the media giant posted some bad numbers, it turned out that at least a couple of its online properties are working well, with MySpace and WSJ.com making impressive amounts of money.read more

Hitwise has released election online traffic results that show Yahoo News was the most visited Web site overall among the news and political Web sites grabbing .72 percent of all U.S. visits representing a 55 percent increase on election day.CNN.com was the most visited TV network web site receiving .61 percent of all U.S. internet visits. CNN.com's visits increased 146 percent on Tuesday compared to Monday. MSNBC.com was the second most visited Web site receiving .40 percent of Internet visits and seeing a 122 percent increase in traffic.read more

Jerry Yang seems to have learned how to bluff at the (unattached) feet of Monty Python's Black Knight. Yahoo's CEO claimed at a conference last night, "To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo."read more

Google executives have been ordered by an Italian prosecutor to stand trial on charges related to a video of a child with Down syndrome being humiliated by other kids who then posted the video on Google Video Italia.read more

by Manoj Jasra A few months ago Bryan Eisenberg and John Quarto-vonTivadar released an in-depth guide on testing using Google Website Optimizer called, "Always Be Testing." I had the opportunity to go through the book and thought that anyone could read it and quickly implement a testing framework using Google's website optimizer. I recently got the chance to interview co-author Bryan Eisenberg to get his thoughts on his motivations for writing the book and the benefits readers can get from it. [Manoj]: Can you start by providing some insight into your motivations for writing the book: "Always Be Testing"[Bryan]: google released Website Optimizer a few years ago. It's evolved and improved greatly in that time, and a lot of people are using it now. But the biggest challenge people face is, "what do I test?" My partner, John Quarto-vonTivadar and I wrote "Always Be Testing" to provide readers with a guide to learning what to test, how to test, and in what order to test.While m

iPhone maker Apple ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among business smartphone users, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates study.Apple received a score of 778 on a 1,000-point scale, doing well in the ease of operation category, physical design and handset feature factors. BlackBerry manufacturer RIM (703) and Samsung trailed Apple in the rankings.read more

The truth is controlling everybody else’s message was never really an option, internally or externally. A company’s narrative always was and still is property of that company and can produce literature reinforcing that narrative; the whispers, the rumors, the melodrama belong to employees. And now they have blogs, Twitter, you name it, and the narrative developing internally is very often at odds with the overarching corporate vision. In the Great Transparency Panic of this new decade, the disparity has been viewed as a bad thing. read more

A report from Borrell Associates claims that next year will be the first in many in which some components of interactive advertising show little or no growth, or may even decline. A summary for the report says: read more