Archives: Mobile ad revenues to hit $533 bln by 2010

GSMA estimates this common mobile ad measurement system could be worth $250 bln, based on a projection that overall ad revenues will hit $533 bln by 2010.

When authorship met authenticity

Nature 451, 1058 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511058a

Author: Adrian Johns
As counterfeit drugs abound, Adrian Johns recalls how medical patenting was created in the seventeenth century to secure trust across growing international trade networks by quashing fakes.

International visitors contributed more than 30% of the total online audiences for RTL Group Sites, Spiegel.de, ProSiebenSat1 Sites, and ARD.de. Of the sites included in the study, RTL Group Sites had the highest proportion of international visitors, with 63% of its 14.8 mln visitors originating from outside of Germany. Spiegel.de attracted 32% of its audience […]

Palaeoclimate: The rhythm of the rains

Nature 451, 1061 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511061a

Authors: Jonathan Overpeck
& Julia Cole
Deposits in a Chinese cave tell the story of the region’s climate stretching back more than 200,000 years, well past the last interglacial warm period — an invaluable resource for understanding the Asian monsoon.

Mariah Carey gets visited by a CompuNerd (think Geek Squad) in this new funny and sexy music video. The music video is for Mariah’s “Touch My Body” - the first single from her album E=MC2. E=MC2 will be released on April 15, 2008. The L.A. Times Extended Play blog says it was produced by C […]

There was a lot of Internet buzz when Quarterlife, a show about twenty-somethings, was moved from web to NBC during the Writer’s Strike. Unfortunately, online buzz does not always translate into offline success - just ask Snakes on a Plane. Quarterlife turned out the lowest ratings for its time slot in over twenty years […]

Today, Yahoo!, along with Google and Microsoft, is announcing Cross-host submission for Sitemaps, which will make it easier for webmasters to manage their Sitemap submissions to the major search engines. With this announcement, webmasters can now submit Sitemaps that correspond to several differently-hosted websites using a single mechanism.
For background, a Sitemap file contains […]

If you didn’t realize it, Yahoo! is embracing openness like never before:

Hadoop Now at the Heart of Every Yahoo! Search
Yahoo!’s Quest to Open Up

The open theme continues today as we are announcing that we are opening up Yahoo! Search itself. That’s right — you heard it correctly — the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be […]

Next week, Yahoo! is speaking at Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman’s annual Search Marketing Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With a total of 12 panels and a keynote, we’re ready to rock. Here’s where you can find us at the show…

Tuesday, February 26
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Decrypting Quality Scores
David Pann, Vice President, Marketplace […]

If you didn’t realize it, Yahoo! is embracing openness like never before:

Hadoop Now at the Heart of Every Yahoo! Search
Yahoo!’s Quest to Open Up

The open theme continues today as we are announcing that we are opening up Yahoo! Search itself. That’s right — you heard it correctly — the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be […]