We’ve noted time and time again the way in which Wikipedia receives loads of traffic from Google, and to be honest, there’s no clear sign that this will change. But Google has gone so far as to launch Knol, a sort of would-be competitor.
Despite no ads or any obvious revenue generation, Google News is worth $100 million to Google, according to VP Marissa Mayer.
How does zero equal $100 million? As one of Google’s many for free peripheral services, enough people sort of ride the Google wave over to the search engine from the News page. In Google’s estimation, all that referral traffic is worth a pretty penny.
You may have never heard of Qik, but it seems to be the logical next step in the citizen journalism movement: live video feeds from mobile phones to the Web. A certain Twittering Congressman uses it already, and today it officially goes public, in beta, naturally.
Here’s an interesting twist in the Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn love triangle–Carl Icahn and Yahoo have just kissed and made-up.
Under a newly announced settlement, Carl Icahn and two of his cohorts will be elected to Yahoo’s board of directors.
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a synthesis of email authentication work by Yahoo, Cisco, and other companies, holds a key advantage for email marketers beyond getting mail to recipients.