Kenneth Corbin

The grown-up social network just got a little more serious. LinkedIn has now opened its site for companies to create profiles, giving members a snapshot overview of what the company is about and who works for it. The feature launched with more than 160,000 profiles, ranging from Fortune 500 gargantuans like eBay to smaller enterprises, […]

NEW YORK — Looking at the development of the search industry over the last 10 years, it’s remarkable both how much has changed and how much has stayed the same. In his keynote address here at the final day of the Search Engine Strategies conference, Andrew Tomkins, chief scientist of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) search division, […]

NEW YORK — In a keynote address here at the Search Engine Strategies conference, Mahalo founder and CEO Jason Calacanis announced a new set of features that he promised would bring the social graph to search. My Mahalo will be a sort of mashup of a social network and a search engine, where people’s reviews […]

NEW YORK — Listening to a keynote about how the The Wall Street Journal has adapted to the onset of a Google-driven Internet leaves the impression of a reluctantly evolving hominid marching into the future, dragging behind it a formula from another century. Speaking here at the Search Engine Strategies conference, Gordon McLeod, president of […]

In an effort to expand the tool chest available for small and midsized businesses (SMBs), NetSuite (NYSE: N) today unveiled two versions of its first product specifically targeting e-commerce sites, as well as checkout support for eBay’s PayPal service. “We’ve long focused on e-commerce-type businesses,” Craig Sullivan, NetSuite’s vice president of product management, told InternetNews.com. […]

NEW YORK — Exciting times we live in. In a keynote address here at the Search Engine Strategies conference, journalist and author Nicholas Carr outlined a vision of an IT economy that stands on the cusp of a transformation more sweeping than the introduction of the mainframe or even the personal computer. “I think we […]

NEW YORK — If Internet neutrality is ever going to be the law of the land, businesses are going to have to join the movement, insisted two of the more outspoken advocates of a national broadband policy to bar Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or degrading certain network traffic. The two trumpeted the cause […]

A recent study of Americans between the ages of 13 and 42 found that 62 percent have accounts on both Facebook and MySpace, and most don’t plan on giving up one site for the other any time soon. The study was commissioned by Fuser, the Web communications aggregator that launched to the public last June, […]

The Internet makes politics fun, does it not? Alternately, the Web has helped Barack Obama rocket past Hillary Clinton in the fund-raising scramble, and played host to a vicious smear campaign claiming, among other things, that the senator from Illinois and lifelong Christian is an inveterate Muslim who took his oath of office with his […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that it is purchasing Rapt, an advertising technology company specializing in sophisticated analytical tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Today’s is the latest in a frenzied string of acquisitions by Microsoft and other Internet heavyweights looking to expand the reach and technology underlying their online advertising businesses. Most […]

It looks like eager ad watchers anxious to see what Google’s first product from its DoubleClick acquisition would be got their answer today. The product is called Ad Manager, and it’s a free hosted service for publishers to manage the ad inventories on their Web sites. Using DoubleClick’s services, a business’s sales team could manage […]

IBM today announced a technology to secure enterprise mashups — the applications built from cobbling together data from multiple sources. SMash — short for “Secure Mashup” — compartmentalizes the underlying code of the applications combined in a mashup. The partitioned code is then brought together through a secured channel. Mashups are a part of IBM’s […]