http://www.smichq.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:06:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en News.com staff writer Erica Ogg contributed to this report. Yahoo's long-awaited deal to show Google ads on search results and an unrelated executive reorganization in its technology group could be announced today, CNET News.com has learned. Update, 12:32 p.m. PDT: It looks like another departure is Jason Zajac, who'd at various ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/09/04/yahoo-to-announce-reorg-google-ad-deal/ The conditions for the influx of money to energy and environmental start-ups--high fossil fuel energy prices and favorable policies--will remain, which means that 2008 will likely see the same pace, said Nicholas Parker, chairman of Cleantech Group. 2003: $1.7 billion Here's a historical view of clean-tech investment, according to Cleantech Group: 2006: $3.6 ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/29/green-tech-investment-roars-onward/ (Credit: Google) (Via Google Operating System.) For example, you can limit which of your mail labels are exposed as folders to outside e-mail clients to improve performance. That's useful, according to the Gmail blog posting, "if you find your mail client choking on a big All Mail folder," the often-overstuffed location ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/google-fine-tunes-gmails-imap-access-options/ In addition to the breach Web site requirement, the bill, also fixes a number of loopholes in the current breach notification law. The law, as currently written, exempts companies from having to notify consumers if a laptop containing customer data is stolen, as long as the laptop has a login ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/industry-giants-lobby-to-kill-pro-consumer-data-br/ One option sorely missing is a way to search for videos within the map; something that must be done from YouTube. For instance, I was looking to geolocate Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" in Minneapolis, but was unable to. I'm assuming Zonday has not geotagged his video, but it would still ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/google-maps-gets-youtube-videos-chocolate-rain/ (Credit: Yahoo) For the true geeks: Yahoo initially plans to support microformats such as hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN; will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS; and will support RDFa and eRDF markup to embed these into existing HTML pages. Yahoo also will ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/yahoo-search-opens-to-third-party-developers/ How do you generate loyalty when media is "disposable"? Making the question doubly difficult, even if you can generate loyalty, what do you do when loyalty becomes "cheap" through ad-blocking? Top 10 Feeder Sites for The Open Road But how do media sites make content sticky so that a casual passerby might ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/blog-traffic-and-a-question-for-online-media/ Get this 3-user security suite free after rebate. Security software: necessary evil or just evil? I tend to think it's the latter, though many would argue it's very necessary and not evil at all. If you fall into that camp (or know a tech doofus who does), check out this ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/protect-your-pc-with-panda-internet-security-2008/ I can't blame the executives for trying, but trust me, it's over. As if that wasn't enough, Circuit City's market cap is just $680 million. Compare that to Best Buy's $17.26 billion and you quickly learn everything you need to know about two of the largest big-box electronics retailers in the ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/is-circuit-city-dead/ Via Zatz Not Funny While the upgrade from SD to HD would be nice for any service, it may seem like an even larger upgrade for Unbox on TiVo users, since our initial hands-on testing with the service revealed that movies were letterboxed, instead of true anamorphic widescreen. We'd also like ... http://www.smichq.com/2010/08/24/amazon-unbox-on-tivo-getting-hd-content/