WebmasterWorldNews and Discussion for the Web ProfessionalGoogle Image Adverts on Mobile Phones- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "the company said it had designed mobile images to look like standard graphical display ads for desktop computer Web pages, but made them smaller to fit on mobile phone screens."http://www.webmasterworld.com/goog/3634019.htm Microsoft's Ballmer: XP May be Saved if Consumers Show They Want It- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments,"http://www.webmasterworld.com/microsoft_windows_os/3634095.htm China Now the World's Largest Internet Population- (Found June 18, 2008 )http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3634154.htm Yahoo's New Click Filter Report- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "Click Filter Report to find out how many clicks we're throwing out."http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo_search_marketing_overture_ppc/3633330.htm Microsoft Quarterly Figures Show $14.45 billion- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "For the quarter, Microsoft had sales of $14.45 billion, flat relative to the same period a year ago. Profit was $4.39 billion, or 47 cents a share, beating the 44 cents Wall Street analysts expected on average."http://www.webmasterworld.com/msft/3634922.htm Yahoo Building 'Social' Into The System- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "We are not building another social network," Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh told more than 1,000 attendees at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco on Thursday. "We are building social into everything we do."http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo-corp/3634934.htm Google Account Creates Privacy and Security Issues- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "When Google detects their cookie from any of their products (Google Groups, AdSense, Google Checkout, Gmail, to name a few) on your computer, they force you to log in through the same Google account. This causes both privacy and security issues."http://www.webmasterworld.com/goog/3631635.htm SixApart Acquires Social Media Agency Apperceptive- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "The idea for SA is to move beyond an increasingly commoditized blog publishing software business, and into adding advertising, design, implementation, development and site optimization services to bloggers and companies."http://www.webmasterworld.com/community_building/3631639.htm The Most Valuable Global Brands: Google Tops Again- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "Its brand value grew 30 percent since last year's report to surpass $86 billion."http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3631587.htm Yahoo Gaining Search Advertising Share- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "One study by RBC Capital using data on ad-buying trends from Web search marketing firm SearchIgnite shows Yahoo outpacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewership and click-through rates during the first quarter."http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo_search/3628075.htm |