May 15th, 2008
Fair Outcomes strives for fair eBay settlements
Disputes between buyers and sellers over e-commerce transactions need not end up as a court battle, if the parties opt to give the Fair Reputations System a try.
May 14th, 2008
Stanford bubbles up Presidential candidate opinions
If Internet users held a particular position about a candidate, Stanford University’s Management Science & Engineering department probably caught their opinions in a bubble.
Through the use of real-time data firm Wise Window’s software as a service for qualitative data, Stanford constructed a tracking tool for the 2008 Presidential election.
As the Democratic primary continues to grind across the country (we get our shot at voting next Tuesday), more news items emerge about its two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as the Republican candidate,John McCain.
Stanford built its tracker to express the opinions surrounding candidates in a visually-friendly way. One may visit the Bubble Tracker and see how positive or negative recent commentary appeared about the candidate.
Green bubbles mean good comments, while purple ones reflect bad ones. Visitors to the Stanford site make click on one of the bubbles to see a link to the story driving that opinion.
Viewing past opinions and the bubbles they made may be done through the use of a slider control below the bubble window. Each change with the slider alters the bubbles for each candidate.
And when you pass the mouse pointer over the candidate’s window, the bubbles begin to circulate. So cool! Links we observed hit news stories appearing on Topix and Diggin our unscientific look at Stanford’s bubbles.
May 13th, 2008
MSN: No syndication, better search ad ROI
LeeAnn Prescott at Efficient Frontier said the best performance in terms of traffic quality at the three biggest search engines belongs to Microsoft and its MSN/Live search properties.
May 12th, 2008
Yahoo, Google build coalition of foes
The potential deals to place Google’s ads on Yahoo’s search results beyond a previous test already garnered opposition from a motley crew of groups.
May 9th, 2008
eBay: PayPal’s way or the highway
Want to auction something in Australia on eBay? PayPal will be your payment processor next month. How long will it be until they try to implement that in the US?
May 8th, 2008
Ha ha, your picture’s on the Internet
The bellowing fellow now immortalized as Mr. Angry Overreaction Man demanded a photographer not put his raging visage online. You can guess what happened next.
May 7th, 2008
Yahoo, Google deal a call of the mild
While shares of Yahoo clung to some gains after Microsoft withdrew its 13-week old effort to acquire the company, a minimal agreement for search ad outsourcing may pry up those clinging fingertips.
May 6th, 2008
Patent judge situation patently disastrous
A law professor discovered a constitutional flaw in the way 46 judges have been appointed to positions of hearing patent cases, as their appointee had no right to do so.
May 5th, 2008
Nine Inch Nails does it again
Trent Reznor tossed another dart at the music industry by releasing The Slip as a free download.
May 1st, 2008
Yahoo Buzz passes along 50 million referrals
Publishers fortunate enough to be in Yahoo Buzz, and receiving the attention a front page spot on Yahoo can drive, enjoyed some big traffic numbers.
