Google Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Kevin Rose to purchase the social news site Digg.com for around $200 million, tech blog TechCrunch reported.
In contrast to Google News, where the stories are selected by computer algorithm, Digg’s news stories are submitted by users and ranked according to user approval ratings. It is known that Google was interested in using Digg’s technology to help improve its search results by having users vote on their quality.
Digg was formed in 2004 by young entrepreneur Kevin Rose who used a programmer he found online for $10 an hour. It is known that he paid $1,200 dollars for the domain name digg.com and $100 a month for hosting it, which is now ranked as one of the 100 most trafficked sites on the Internet by Alexa.
Digg has so far raised around $11.3 million in VC. Most of Digg’s revenue comes from a three-year ad deal with Google rival Microsoft, which may be terminated on a sale to Google, TechCrunch said. Ouch !
WP 2.6 is out early, almost a month ahead of schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS like tracking changes to every post and page and making it easier to post from anywhere on the web. Also, there are a dozen improvements and bugfixes compared to wp2.5
There is a Special promotion for the month of July where The Voxant Newsroom would be offering a $7 CPM for non-autoplay videos
This holds valid ONLY for the month of July.. Other July CPM rates are given below (no changes have been made other than the addition of the July promotion):
Text and Image - $0.10
Referral Text and Image - $0
Autoplay video $0.50
Referral autoplay video $0.10
Non-autoplay video $7 – ONE MONTH SPECIAL PROMOTION
Referral non-autoplay video $1.00
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Their network affiliates include CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press (AP), Reuters, MTV, NHL, AFP, and HowStuffWorks, as well as a variety of website publishers and bloggers.
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Gmail now has account activity shown on the footer to let you know if you’re still logged on elsewhere and also gives you a chance to disconnect remotely.
Clicking on details brings a window that shows the recent activity associated with the logged in account like the Access type, IP address used to login etc.. Also, it indicates if the current account is open elsewhere so that you can logoff safely, if necessary.
SF: Yahoo Inc. defended online search leader Google Inc as a more desirable partner than Microsoft Corp in a Wednesday letter that affirmed the Internet pioneer’s commitment to a new strategy.
Yahoo embraced its planned advertising partnership with Google amid reports that it had revived talks about a possible deal with Microsoft. The report, based information from unnamed people, surfaced despite Yahoo’s repeated rejection of the software giant since their intense mating dance began nearly five months ago.
Although Yahoo’s letter didn’t completely rule out a Microsoft deal, it stressed that working with Google remains the best option on the table.
Source : Indiatimes Infotech
