Facebook bans Google+ ad
Posted on July 18, 2011 by Budi Putra in Business, Tech
At the end of the day, business is business. Please keep it in mind.
Michael Lee Johnson writes:
LOL: I recently ran a Google+ advertisement on Facebook that got all of my campaigns suspended. – Great.
The message from Failbook said the following:
Your account has been disabled. All of your adverts have been stopped and should not be run again on the site under any circumstances. Generally, we disable an account if too many of its adverts violate our Terms of Use or Advertising guidelines. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with the specific violations that have been deemed abusive. Please review our Terms of Use and Advertising guidelines if you have any further questions.
Google+ is nice, but I still prefer Twitter
Posted on July 14, 2011 by Budi Putra in Tech
I should admit that, Google+ is a nice platform. At least, they offer the original feature: Circles. But since friends I have here are almost similar to my Twitter friends, I prefer staying longer on the 140 characters world. At least, at the moment.
That Google’s intention to launch this new service is originally to catch up Facebook, rather than Twitter, that’s another story.
Google shuts down Google Video
Posted on April 18, 2011 by Budi Putra in Entertainment, Media
Google is shutting down the video service, telling that all Google Video contents will no longer be available for playback later this month. Actually, Google stopped accepting uploads to Google video in May 2009.
Google asked users to move their contents over to YouTube. Users can also download the video –and store it locally– since there is a download button available on the video status page recently.
PCMag writes:
It’s not much of a surprise that Google has opted to wind things down with Google Video, considering Google owns YouTube, which according to comScore’s January figures, is the number one online video content property with 144.1 million unique viewers per month. Google launched Google Video in 2005, and purchased YouTube the following year.
Indonesian Ministry’s porn filter blocks ads too
Posted on August 11, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Informations started to block porn sites (check-out the list here) today, but apparently it blocks ads, too. For instance, eBay’ and Google Adsense’s banners got blocked. Weird.
[All images from @sigantengkalem]Android TweetDeck, starting beta test this week
Posted on August 10, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
I am currently using Seesmic for Android — that’s a nice app for Twitter though, but TweetDeck for Android is also worth trying… Can’t wait to get this on my Droid!
To get straight to the point, we’re nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we’ve really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to us because it’s more than just TweetDeck on Android.
First off, we’ve built Android TweetDeck from the ground up to be true multi-stream, laser focused on showing you all your friends’ cross-service activity in one app. Multi-column is still the order of the day but now columns are blended based on the type of activity rather than the service. And all this whilst retaining the most powerful functionality from each included service. We’ve spent an inordinate amount of time making the app silky smooth from the column scrolling to the custom views – so much so that one of Google’s Android Developer Advocates recently described it as “a thing of beauty”. So look out for the beta test later this week and please do get involved.
[via TweetDeck blog]
Google TV about to be announced!
Posted on May 1, 2010 by Budi Putra in Entertainment
Android-based TV software will be announced at a developer event in May, according to WSJ.
News portals are top online news sources
Posted on March 15, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
A recent study found that people prefer news portals —like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL — as their main online news sources rather than the online edition of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times.
[via Search Engine Land]
Google real-time search adds Facebook status updates
Posted on February 25, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Public status updates from Facebook Pages now in Google’s real-time search. The new features will be rolling out in the next few days –this time is just available globally in English. “Relevance meets the real-time web,” Google says.
The key thing to remember, however, is that Google has much more limited access to Facebook’s real-time data than its competitor, Bing. Microsoft has deeper ties to the social network, as an investor in Facebook and as a search provider for the site. Microsoft has the ability to index public status updates, while Google’s access is limited to updates from Pages, which are vehicles for marketing rather than personal content.
[via VentureBeat]
URL typos is a big business now!
Posted on February 18, 2010 by Budi Putra in Statistics
If you frequently misspelled site addresses, it means you already sent cash to others –in this case, Google! A report says that Google supplied ads to almost 60 percent of these sites and earning some $497 million a year!
If these typo domains were treated as a single website, that site would be ranked by Alexa as the 10th most popular website in the world. It would be more popular, in unique daily visitors, than twitter.com, myspace.com, or amazon.com!
Will Apple build its own search engine?
Posted on February 12, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
The answer is no, according to Silicon Alley Insider. There are too many options in the search market today, so that building a new search engine is not that easy. Another reason: The company is getting over US$100 million anually from Google, since Google is the default search engine in Safari.
For Apple, that’s not a lot of money. But, it’s enough that it doesn’t make sense for Apple to put considerable resources towards building its own Internet search engine. And, if Apple wanted more money or options, there’s Microsoft — with Bing and a big checkbook.
Google launching Twitter-killer!
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Following the launch of Yahoo’s “status-casting” for its email service back in August 2009, Google will also allow its email users to their update status. Google could announce “the Twitter-killer” as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The prompt reads, “let people know what you’re up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages.” But every time a user updates their status, the previous update disappears into the ether.
The WSJ says the new feature will “allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with.” It will be tightly integrated with Google’s video-sharing site YouTube and its photo-sharing site Picasa.
[via Business Insider]
Facebook email? No, thanks!
Posted on February 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
When it comes to the online activity, the following is my daily habit in the morning: checking my emails, Twitter and blog’s Dashboard.
Frankly speaking, even having two email accounts are too many for me. But those [Yahoo! Mail and Gmail] really help in term of personal email management. I am using Yahoo! Mail for all services’ subscriptions and Gmail for self-hosted domain name’s mail. I even often Twitter’s private messages (called DM) to ping some friends.
Getting notice recently that Facebook is now planning to launch its own webmail service, I am a bit surprised. Do we need a new [web-based] email? Oh wait. Might be Facebook is not targeting user like me. If Facebook is eyeing common users, instead of a user like me, so it does make sense. Why? Because Facebook is becoming less relevant for me. I refuse to even use Facebook for message things.
