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Mike Davidson: Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes
By pulling out everything a mobile device can possibly choke on before it even gets to the mobile device, we can create a mobile version of our site which is not only viewable on more devices but is much quicker to download as well.
Victor Koo, one of China’s best-known Internet industry figures, said Monday he has founded a new company that will focus on investing in early stage Chinese Internet businesses.
The new firm, called 1Verge Internet Technology, will be based in Beijing, said Koo, who in March stepped down as president of Nasdaq-listed Chinese portal Sohu.com after six years with the company.
Via | CNET News.com: Net TV start-up lands $16 million in funding | CNET News.com
Is video the next big thing in the Web 2.0 evolution? After social networking site, blogging sites, and the Flickrs of the world.
Google engineers have made very few mistakes in the past. Their products (web search, to be specific) has been rock solid. However, I recently stumbled on an 404 error when I clicked on a sponsored ad from just below the search field. Perhaps working on many fronts has finally made its dent on Google’s product quality.
The URL shown in the picture is http://www.google.com/home.php.
First, Apple’s patent application on iPod interface has been rejected. Apple could still re-submit their application within 3 months. But it is obviously a setback to the company.
Second, Google submitted a patent application on “Embedding advertisements in syndicated content”, i.e. RSS. THAT would be a setback for other Internet Ads guys like Yahoo and Ask.com.
I have thought about patents around RSS, podCast, VODcast etc lately. If Google can patent embedded ads in RSS, why can’t I patent embedded ads in PodCast.