ysearchblog.com - 1/15/2009
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Starting today, the Wikipedia Enhanced Result will automatically appear in the search results. Not surprisingly, we’ve seen a handful of Wikipedia Enhanced Results and Infobars built in the past few months. After observing how people used these apps, we gathered the best elements from each and ...
techcrunch.com - 1/19/2009
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techcrunch.com —
It’s time for an update on the progress
we’ve made on the low cost touch screen tablet
that I first wrote about in July 2008 when I asked for a dead simple touch screen web tablet that boots right to the browser. Here’s our first ...
(more)
TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B
obsessable.com - 1/23/2009
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Yahoo! Gives Wikipedia an 8th Birthday Present
SitePoint —
... 8th birthday, Yahoo! announced that it would be adding a Wikipedia SearchMonkey application to all search results for US users. SearchMonkey is Yahoo!’s search engine developer platform launched last May that allows web developers to enhance search results with custom applications. ...
Yahoo! search results adds Wikipedia SearchMonkey app as default
D' Technology Weblog —
... Now on, Yahoo! search results will automatically display Wikipedia enhanced results displayed in their new SearchMonkey app form. This new Wikipedia app includes a photo (if there’s one in the corresponding article), deep links to the first four sections of the article, and a snippet pulled from the article summary. You can opt to use any prefer app by adjusting your ...
Yahoo Turns on Wikipedia SearchMonkey App But Twitter is the BOSS
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... that rewires Yahoo's Web services to provide users an irresistible experience, got a boost Jan. 15 when Yahoo said it has turned on its Wikipedia SearchMonkey app on for U.S. users . This app adds appropriate photos to corresponding Wikipedia articles, deep links to the first four sections of the article and a snippet pulled from the article summary. The app is culled from Wikipedia Enhanced Results and Infobars, the primary modes of contextual Web creation in SearchMonkey, that programmers have built over the past few months. "After observing how people used these apps, ...
Marketing News Roundup, January 17
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... option (well, mostly requiring them, it sounds like) to remove the audio from their videos? YouTube still offers music choices, but apparently even their AudioSwap options aren’t immune to copyright infringement. Getting permission FTW.
Want to get into video advertising?Google and SpotMixer are launch self-service video ads, so maybe that’ll be enough to help you get started.
Yahoo’s really integrating its SearchMonkey apps, with Wikipedia SearchMonkey App now defaulted to on.
Is it true? RWW says that Twitter ...
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