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AdWords Reporting Gets New Segmentation Option: Top Vs. Side Ads
Jul 14th
Google is rolling out AdWords functionality to let advertisers segment reports based on where the ad appears on the page — whether it’s above the organic search results or off to the right side. The feature will allow advertisers to determine whether the benefits they’d seeing…
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Verizon Wireless Partners with Payfone, Makes Carrier Billing an Option for Online Purchases
Jun 13th
Verizon Wireless and mobile payments company Payfone have teamed up today to announce a new partnership which will enable Verizon customers to pay for online purchases using their mobile devices. The online purchases can be paid for using either carrier billing methods, meaning purchases are charged to the customer’s next Verizon bill, or they can be paid for using traditional payment methods provided through financial institutions, like credit or debit cards.
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The new service brings a “one-click” payment option to any Verizon mobile phones that ship with a Web browser. No upgrades will be required to use the service, says Verizon – the option to pay using your mobile will simply appear as a link on the merchants’ websites.
For larger purchases that a customer may not want to charge to their monthly phone bill, the option to link a Payfone account to a credit card will be made available.
The deal, which was first reported by The Wall St. Journal on Friday, has been officially confirmed by the companies today by way of press release.
What makes Payfone unique is its security system. Unlike traditional payments network, it leverages the security built into the mobile operator network while processing transactions. To do so, it ties a customer’s SIM card, device ID and location to their account, so that it knows when a different phone is used, or when a phone is used in an unusual location. Payfone also takes advantage of the global SS7 signaling network for connected payment authorization and processing. The end result is a location-based, customer-specific approach to fighting fraud, reducing risk, chargebacks and identity theft.
Payfone is also used by American Express’s new Serve payments platform, which just today launched into a partnership with AOL.
Other Verizon Initiatives
Verizon is also involved in other payment initiatives including Isis, a mobile payments service launched along with T-Mobile and AT&T that will allow customers to pay at point-of-sale using their mobile phones.
It should be noted that this is not the first carrier billing program provided by Verizon. BilltoMobile, a Verizon partner since March 2010, teamed up with mobile payments companies BOKU and Zong in January, to offer expanded direct carrier billing options to Verizon customers. The new relationship with Payfone does not aim to replace this current partnership or any other initiative, says Verizon, it only serves to complement them.
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YouTube Unveils Creative Commons Licensing Option for Easier Sharing
Jun 2nd
YouTube announced Creative Commons licensing options for videos hosted on the site today, making it much easier to use and share videos with legal attribution.
Creative Commons on YouTube will allow users to splice clips or scenes from other videos through the YouTube Video Editor. Copyright and Creative Commons can be a tricky area as there are several different Creative Commons options. YouTube tries to make it easy by using only one — CC BY 3.0 — that permits users to share and adapt content for commercial use provided that attribution is given to the original creator.
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TechCrunch reported the new YouTube Creative Commons license options June 1. The option will be an addition to the normal standard YouTube license, which restricts users to fair use, fair dealing and getting permission to use content from the original copyright holder. The line of fair use and fair dealing can be blurry given the nature of the content being used, how much of it is used and whether or not the content is significantly changed to alter the meaning of the original work.
YouTube joins photo-sharing sites like Flickr that have Creative Commons options included with every upload that a user makes. The use of Creative Commons and fair use photos is one of the reasons that Flickr became one of the de facto places to share photos on the Web and helps the site sustain a vibrant community.
Creative Commons source attribution will be seen on the right under the video player in YouTube.
The use-case for Creative Commons on YouTube means that an extremely wide-variety of videos and clips will become available to users in creating derivative works or mash ups. As YouTube says in a blog post announcing the Creative Commons; “Maybe you were creating your own music video and needed an aerial video of Los Angeles at night to spice it up. Unless you had a helicopter, a pretty powerful camera and some fierce editing skills, this would have been a big challenge.”
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Yahoo Messenger Brings a Strong Video Chat Option to iOS
May 19th
When Apple debuted the iPhone 4 with a front-facing camera it toted along a killer app that had been unavailable on mobile devices until then – FaceTime. Now users could do video chat from mobile devices and Apple was the only player in the game with that capability.
Everybody else has been playing catch up. Skype quickly moved to add video chat, one of its staple products, and then added Qik Video Connect earlier this year. Now, Yahoo has gotten into the game with its new Yahoo Messenger app for iOS. The new Yahoo Messenger for iOS has been optimized for iPad and can do video and voice calls, text chat, presence, send SMS and share photos in real-time. Importantly, iPad 2 users can video chat to talk with PCs. As a communications app, it is a strong entry from forgotten source of innovation.
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The functionality of the Yahoo Messenger app is excellent. Video calling works seamlessly and is optimized for the front-facing camera on the iPad 2. As a video calling app, it challenges both Skype and FaceTime for ease of use and picture quality.
One of the first problems I have had with Yahoo Messenger is that it did not import all of my Yahoo email contacts. As such, I started the service with zero contacts in my queue at all. Yahoo has been throwing Messenger at users for several years but, unlike Google Chat (and now Google Talk), it has not reached critical mass of adopters in the U.S. who actually use it. If an app falls makes a video call in a forest and there is no one on the other end, does the app even exist? To be fair, Yahoo Messenger is well used internationally. Yet, so is Skype.
For this reason, Yahoo has smartly tied its contacts in with the ability to import contacts from Windows Live MSN Messenger. The theory is that, of the two services, users will have a deep contact list on at least one of them. Windows Live is widely used on PCs and in the enterprise and in terms of pure volume has more users than either Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger.
Speaking of Google Talk, it is curious that Yahoo Messenger was able to beat Google to the punch with a video calling app that functions with iOS. Yahoo has focused less in recent years on creating and maintaining technological endeavors (so long, Delicious) and more on beefing up its content offerings. Google is the complete opposite. Is it a sign of the cold war between Apple and Google that Mountain View has not made an app that can video chat with Cupertino? It is hard to tell, but for all the negative streams swirling around Yahoo, it took the initiative and built a good communications application for popular mobile devices. Wonder if anybody will actually use it.
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Google Apps Adds Option to Delegate Admin Tasks to Users
May 12th
Google Apps Business and Education customers got a security option today. Administrators can now delegate certain admin privileges, such as creating new accounts or managing mail lists, to specific users without making them a full fledged administrator. That means IT can offload certain responsibilities to HR staff or managers, or create permissions for IT workers with fewer permissions than senior IT staff.
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This is another step forward for Google Apps, which is still making the case for itself in the enterprise. And even in smaller organizations, being able to delegate admin roles to various user can helpful.
According to the Google Enterprise Blog, here’s how to enable the new feature:
- Log in to the Google Apps administrator control panel
- Under “Organization and Users,” find and click on the user account to which you wish to grant privileges
- Click the “Privileges” tab
- To make the user a Super Admin select the check box labeled “This user has full administrative rights within this Control Panel.” To restrict the user’s access to selected functions the Control Panel, select the check boxes next to the tabs you want the user to access
- Select the specific actions the user is allowed to perform under each tab
- Click “Save changes” and “OK” to confirm that you want to grant administrator access to the user
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4 Easy Image Optimization Tips for Google’s New Sort by Subject Option
May 11th
Google has unveiled a Sort by Subject feature for Image Search that allows users to sort photos more easily by subject and improves the general topic searches.
If you’re looking for a picture of a certain bird, for example, and perhaps can’t remember the exact name, rather than scrolling through a combination of every type of bird and hoping you’ll find the one you’re looking for, Google has come up with an algorithm to sort birds into groups, whether it’s a parrot, eagle, duck, cardinal, and so on.
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Google Images Adds Subject Sorting Option
May 9th
Google announced you can now sort Google Images by subject. To see this in action, go to Google Images, conduct a search and look on the left hand side for the search option. Directly under the “More” link, you will find the default sort option set to “by relevance,” click…
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The Best SEO Option May Be Domain Name Ownership says Marketing Pro – AddPR.com (press release)
May 4th
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The Best SEO Option May Be Domain Name Ownership says Marketing Pro
AddPR.com (press release) Regarding SEO Scott says that it has long been known that owning domain names that contain keywords relevant to the products and services that you offer is a great search engine optimization strategy and has a positive effect on search ranking. … |
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