Twitter Says Advertising OK in Changed Terms of Service

Facebook, take note: Twitter changes terms for the better | Technology | Los Angeles Times: "Twitter Inc. changed its terms of service today to clarify that advertising on your Twitter page is OK and that users, not the company, own their tweets.
For months, ad services have flourished in certain circles of the social network. Twitter's legal provisions reinforce those companies' legitimacy.
Twitter also inserted sections to the user agreement addressing standards for third-party developers and intolerance for spammers, wrote co-founder Biz Stone on the company blog."

[Read the full article in the LA Times Technology section...]

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Web 2.0 CEO Quotes From TechCrunch Video

Web 2.0 CEO Quotes From TechCrunch Video: "TechCrunch recently posted a 29 minute video of an interview with a bunch of Web 2.0 CEO’s about what they thought Web 2.0 was, trends, etc. First off I was surprised how measured most of the comments were, especially around what Web 2.0 is, and what leapt out for me was how much Web 2.0 is actually about how technology connects and empowers people. Web 2.0 may not be social media, but it is the fundamental infrastructure. Anyway, here are some select quotes from the video, that can be found here on techcruch in a very 1.0 video format embedded in a webpage with no way to share it or navigate it, just 29 sequential minutes (ever heard of Veo tagging), anyway:"

Twitter Web 2.0 Buzz (ExploreWeb2dot0) Tweets Treasure

Web 2.0 Buzz (ExploreWeb2dot0) is on Twitter, a free service that lets you keep in touch with a wealth of news and information about all aspects of the fascinating world of Web 2.0 To start reading and following Web 2.0 Buzz (ExploreWeb2dot0) tweets today, visit http://twitter.com/ExploreWeb2dot0

Twitter Sharing Data with Google "Suicide"?

For Twitter, sharing data with Google would be "suicide" asserts Internet pioneer/entrepreneur Edo Segal (who can be found on Twitter @edosegal). Do you think Edo Segal is right?

Web 2.0 and the Power of Viral Marketing

Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions » Web 2.0 and the Power of Viral Marketing

Social Media, Web 2.0 marketing, and Viral Marketing - Underground Secrets Exposed. Create Your Brand Part 1: Web 2.0 and Social Media MarketingThe Power of Video Marketing by Vesone Dean From (The Peoples Program) Marketing Mentor Formula and Web 3.0; are you missing the boat without this technique?

Google After Microsoft Yahoo "Microhoo" Search Deal

An analysis of Google in the wake of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, AKA "Microhoo". [Read more about Google vs Microhoo...]

Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Give Fascinating Peek Inside Google

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave a talk in 2004 (released on video in 2007) that offered a fascinating peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to innovation and employee happiness. Their talk in 2004 focused on the future and five years later now in 2009, Google has continued to press aggressively ahead year after year to make products and services that are of value for millions of people around the world, and their wildly successful Adsense advertising-based revenue generating business model has made them not only the darlings of investors adn Wall Street but also has allowed the company the ways and means to provide almost all of its Google offerings free. Much has transpired since 2004 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin first gave their talk, but their words back then still resonate strongly today and continue to set the tone and provide a clear roadmap for many more exciting innovations to expect in the months and years to come. Watch the video of the talk by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and read the interactive transcript on TED.com

GAO Jumps on YouTube and Twitter Bandwagon

Government Computer News (GCN) reports that "the Government Accountability Office [GAO] has begun making its video products available on YouTube and has established feeds on the Twitter micro-blogging service to announce release of new documents and reports" which "alerts users of releases of GAO documents, containing the same information contained on the Web site's daybook and its e-mail alerts." The article goes on to say that the "the General Services Administration [GSA] has established terms-of-use agreements for agencies using new generation online services such as Twitter and YouTube" and states that "GAO is the latest of more than 50 agencies and members of Congress using Twitter." {Read the full GCN article written by William Jackson...}

While GAO has now made a major move to expands its online presence using Web 2.0 social media and social networking capabilities such as YouTube and Twitter, they've obviously held back a good while to watch it in action by many other agencies and members of Congress and apparently saw enough value out of what others were doing to entice them to also take the plunge. It's likely that with GAO now having boarding the Web 2.0 train, especially now that GSA has published some 'rules of the road' to follow, you're likely to see a lot more Government organizations making the leap themselves and publishing what they have to offer online, especially through leading and very popular Web 2.0 social media and social networking capabilities such as YouTube and Twitter and many others of similar nature. Probably a good trend because more transparency and openness in Government and by Government is generally a good thing for American citizens who pay for these services with their tax dollars and thus deserve to have as much knowledge as possible made available to them by their representatives from Government who exist for the sole purpose to serve the needs of Americans to the best of their ability. And as far as the idea of Government accountability displayed online for all to see, what better organization to do that than one called the Government Accountability Office, right? So big kudos to GAO for making this important move and setting a good example for others in Government.

Unisys Secure Cloud Service Cloud Computing Breakthrough

NetworkWorld.com reports that Unisys Corporation has announced its launch of a cloud computing service called "Unisys Secure Cloud" that is protected by a double-encryption scheme known as "Unisys Stealth Solution" that it says has earned high government security ratings. [Read the entire NetworkWorld article...]

This new Unisys Secure Cloud service looks to be a major breakthrough in cloud computing by addressing one of the biggest concerns people have about moving their operations (applications, applications development, infrastructure, etc) to be hosted within a cloud envirnoment: completely reliable, unbreakable security that they can fully trust. With the Unisys Stealth Solution the double-encryption security "engine" inside Unisys Secure Cloud, plus the incorporated algorhythm that gives the ability to share data and information with various disparate communities of interest in a myriad of interconnected ways, allows organizations he means to conduct fully protected data and information sharing for whatever business or mission purpose the wish, and can do it in a "net-centric"fashion through use of Web 2.0-enabling capabilities such as web services and other services, especially when organized and managed to full effect within a Service Oriented Architeture (SOA). And with all this done within an incredibly secure cloud computing environment, the Unisys Secure Cloud service holds out the prospect of a major, transformational breakthrough to encourage a must faster move by organizations to the use of cloud computing to support their business and mission operational needs. With its announcement and implementation of its Secure Cloud service, Unisys looks to have propelled itself squarely to the forefront as a major, innovative player in the cloud computing arena.

Dow Jones CEO Says "Bite Me!" to Google "Digital Vampire"

Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton says Google is a 'Digital Vampire' and identifies "the newspaper industry as a victim of Google's actions", according to a report in WebProNews. Hinton goes on to say that "there is a charitable view of the history of Google but that the charitable view of Google is that the news business itself fed Google's taste for this kind of blood." So what do you think about Mr. Hinton's assertion about Google? Is Google indeed sucking the life right out of the newspaper business? Or maybe it's a case of the newspaper business not adapting to the new world media order we now live in (and have been for a good while now)? Is Google the vampire culprit here that Mr. Hinton makes them out to be, the proverbial blood sucking Count Dracula made famous in countless horror B movies, or should Google instead be seen as a major catalyst (possibly THE penultimate catalyst) for prodding traditional print media such as newspapers and magazines to adapt and adopt much faster to the world of the Internet and the World Wide Web, including finding ways to take better advantage of the incredible viral marketing, word-spreading effects of the Web 2.0 social media and social networking applications and capabilities that are evolving at warp speed? One thing's for sure: Google doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon. Can many newspapers and magazines say the same?

So what do you think? Not everyone is crazy about Google, and even some think Google's search engine marketing business practices are starting to suck (at least from their eating-Google's-dust vantage point) but does this "Google sucks" business go so far that they can fairly be described as a "Digital Vampire"? If there's any doubt at all that this Vampire business has any truth to it, probably best to play it safe and not get so angry around Google types that you might blurt out the expression "Bite Me!" But it won't be your neck that gets bitten, it'll probably be your corporate wallet. In any case, you can learn more about this fascinating subject by reading the full article in WebProNews. And then you can draw your own conclusions as to whether this Dow Jones versus Google dust-up is a case of 'True Blood' or just 'True B.S.'
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