Archive for August, 2011

An SEO’s Guide to RegEx

2011/08/28

Posted by robmillard RegEx is not necessarily as complicated as it first seems.

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Lawsuit Accuses comScore of Major Privacy Violations

2011/08/28

A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer information (including social security numbers and payment data), manipulating computer security settings without authorization, and embedding their software in other appl…

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Google Adds Voice Search to Google Maps

2011/08/28

Google has added voice search to Google Maps for Chrome browser users, allowing users to ask for directions verbally and more find hard-to-spell locations. The addition is part of the ongoing integration of voice-recognition technology. Voice Se..

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Being Bad For Great Justice: A New Privacy Scandal Rocks Second Life

2011/08/27

“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” In keeping with the tradition of “skip a week and all hell breaks loose”, here we go again. I started the week thinking I’d wind up writing about the release of Mesh to the full Second Life gr…

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Slide Kicked Out of Google’s Social Playground

2011/08/27

Despite spending $179 million acquiring Slide a year ago, Google has decided to shut down the social apps startup, All Things Digital reported. Slide founder Max Levchin, who also started PayPal, will be leaving Google. Slide Product H…

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Bug: Cursor Not Focused In Google Search Box

2011/08/27

The latest and greatest Google bug is really annoying some users and it is a really minor bug. The issue is that on some versions of browsers, including many versions of Internet Explorer..

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New: A Listing Rich Snippets In Google

2011/08/27

Update: It is official…

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Search Google Maps By Talking

2011/08/27

Google announced that they have brought over the voice search feature from mobile and the Google home page to Google Maps. So now you no longer have to type your location’s name…

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Facebook Mimics Google+ Features with Privacy and Sharing Controls

2011/08/27

After Google+ was launched, I wrote a long post  in which I detailed the features of the new service and discussed the real barriers between Google and success.

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