What you see below is a 300×250 rectangular Google AdSense Ad unit. Ideally an ad unit this size should show 3-4 different ads but maybe there isn’t enough inventory and therefore, all you see is 1 ad somewhere near the middle of the rectangle.When a website visitor hovers the mouse over this Google Ad block, [...]

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The New York Times is reporting that iGoogle and Yahoo Mail could be at the core of social-networking plans for the two search companies.

“Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph—the connections between people,” Saul Hansell writes in his blog posting. “Yahoo and Google realize that they have this [...]

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Facebook and their advertising partners have begun to step on the toes of some developers. Rachel Rosmarin of Forbes paint a picture of fearful developers that are concerned about Facebook wrecking their business model or at least their opportunity to compete. Dare Obasanjo suggests that this is just a sign that Facebook is becoming a [...]

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Today, Fox News posted a gallery of girls that had posted drunk photos of themselves. Where did they post those photos? On Facebook of course! There are close to 5,000 photos now posted in a group called “30 Reasons Girls Should Call it A Night.” Trying to get a job a few years from now? [...]

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As expected, Flickr has retooled its photo printing abilities to make it easier to print batches of photos.

The new print ability is now available in the Organizr tool, which already was available to help users group photos into sets, change viewing permissions, add tags, and otherwise manage their photos. Flickr’s Eric Costello announced the [...]

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Just last week there was a ton of buzz surrounding Microsoft’s investment in Facebook that placed a $15 billion valuation on the social networking website. While many in the industry were trying to figure out whether or not this investment was justifiable (myself included), a few developers decided to team up and put a twist [...]

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An odd thing happened in Washington this week. A dozen Republicans demanded a public hearing into Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick because, they claim, “the privacy implications of such a merger are enormous.”

This demand came in a letter from those politicians (PDF), including Rep. Dennis Hastert, to their Democratic counterparts, who now [...]

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Security researcher Roger Thompson has found a new way to link to malicious servers that doesn’t involve iframes (inline frames). An attack in June used cross-site scripting to place malicious iframes on legitimate Web sites. Iframes are used by Web designers to open additional windows (often hosted on other sites) within a main Web page; [...]

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Writing the blog iPhoneFreak.com, Stephane Dion has learned at least one lesson, and it’s not just that he has a lot of company as an Apple iPhone fanatic. Rather, it’s that blogs are the best way to reap traffic from Google and other search engines. Blogs are dynamic, real-time, and chock full of search-engine-friendly keywords, [...]

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