A number of YouTube Partners, including this video blogger, have complained of a sudden and dramatic decrease in revenue starting in late December (though Zennie62′s decrease has not been as great as most). The place for the complaints, the YouTube Partner Forum, is packed with complaints like this one: Hello I am not a youtube
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Ok, there’s a lot of talk about “quality content” being important for Google News. The problem I’ve always had with that is quality is in the eye of the beholder. To me, quality content has over 200 words, and great information in the text. And for some time, Google News has elevated content that met
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It’s funny who you run into while traveling around the country, as this blogger does. In this case, I happened to sit next to an engaging and talkative man who works for Microsoft. He proceeded to tell me a lot about the company that Bill Gates built and threw in some fascinating Google info, too,
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Tout.com, the 15 second video sharing website (of which this blogger is a featured user, or “Touter”) was originally launched in 2010 around an iPhone app. And even though iPhones sales dominated the smartphone industry for a few years, Google Android sales leaped ahead of iPhone sales in 2010, before “flattening out” as one publication
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The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was fired from AOL. What’s so weird is to read blog posts and articles that are dancing all over his grave,
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At first that Chick-Fil-A would be at the top of Google Trends as of this writing would come as a surprise, but when you stop and consider the wave of foreclosures out here in the Atlanta Suburbs, where this blogger’s blogging from right now, it’s not a shock at all. Chick-Fil-A, a chain foreign to
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The search giant Google, that this blogger remembers as popular new device with Berkeley and Stanford students back in 1999, had one major legal victory and another major legal loss: one regarding thumbnails and the other on an allegedly illegal set of Canadian ads involving Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page. In the first case,
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Google AdSense, the ad-serving system used on scores of blogs and websites, is generally favored over competitor services because of its higher “RPM” rate, or “Revenue Per Thousands Of Impressions.” This blogger has been a happy user of Google Adsense for years, as it’s coupled with the YouTube Partner Program – no complaints here. But
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Someone tell Chamillionaire that the free Nexus S Phone Google gave him at last Friday’s TechCrunch Mobile Conference wasn’t – unfortunately – just free for the famous rapper. Oh, follow me on Twitter at Zennie62, before I forget to tell ya! (Chamillionaire recently slammed Android, the operating system that governs Nexus S, as subpar to
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That was the title of a lively conversation on, well, Facebook. Adriel Hampton, started the thread because she “was extremely turned off by the mass suspensions. Who wants to have fun exploring a network where your friends from Facebook and Twitter are getting digitally offed left and right? Put a huge chill in my network
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The Albert Haynesworth trade from the Washington Redkins to the New England Patriots has Google Trends in a state not seen much of late: on fire. And with the NFL active in this free agent period, the top 20 most searched keywords are albert haynesworth, reggie bush, eddie long, patriots, npi, cleveland clinic, miami dolphins,
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Blogger, Google’s blogging platform that it purchased in 2004, was down, but now it’s back. It’s the second time this year Blogger users, including this blogger, experienced wide-spread outages, and while Google has not, as of this writing, issued a statement, one Google Engineer named Jeremy did point the way for Blogger users to recover
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