It’s now autumn in New York which aside from being an atrocious Richard Gere/Winona Ryder flick also means its 90 degrees for some reason. Drill baby drill! The shortened week means a shortened round-up but don’t worry – it’s all good.
First let’s get the rest of our Chrome biz out of the way:
Google: “OK, We Don’t Own You”
Google went a mite overboard perhaps with their initial Chrome browser terms of service agreement. Lines like, “By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services…” led to the usual outbreak of Google paranoia. Google responded quickly by having Matt Cutts post several times on his blog (kidding, kind of) and changing the terms of service to something more browser appropriate.
Chrome Comic Clone
Chrome was soft launched via comic book, and though the bigscreen adaptation has yet to be announced there are already several parodies and at least one contest based on the Manga-like stunt. Here’s my favorite via Portfolio.
Digg-ing for Booty
The great Digg scandal hit this week as a top Digg-ster revealed the sordid cash for Diggs details that will surely set the stage for another payola investigation. Or not. Seems the social network is being gamed by it’s top users in exchange for sweet, sweet moolah.
WSJ: Yo Mama’s Like Search Marketing – Everyone is Using It
Ok I may have exaggerated – Rupert Murdoch’s flagship paper didn’t stoop to a Yo Mama joke. They leave that to the New York Post. Still while online advertising is feeling some of the same recessionary malaise as other forms of media, more money is getting channeled into search marketing because of its effectiveness and measurement capabilities.
