http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/ A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com) en Copyright 2008 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:55:00 -0400 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Since they're too shy to point this out themselves, I feel obligated to brag about two of our Post I.T. members who helped bring the Business section to victory in our first-ever Guitar Hero contest at The Washington Post newsroom. The battle of the virtual bands happened last week, when... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/and_they_say_we_newsies_dont_h.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/and_they_say_we_newsies_dont_h.html Sara Goo Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:55:00 -0400 I hate to get all promotional on you but I wanted to make sure you saw our very cool Teen Shopping project, an ambitious effort to get inside the heads of teens and understand what they buy and why. It was retail reporter Ylan Mui's baby, but it ended up... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/check_out_our_new_online_proje.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/check_out_our_new_online_proje.html Sara Goo Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:57:13 -0400 Ask.com's chief executive Jim Lanzone stopped by The Post yesterday to give us an update on his search site. A year ago, Ask ditched its well-known butler mascot, Jeeves, remade its site and started running commercials with some kind of animal--I think monkeys. Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone and The Post's... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/askcom_the_search_underdog.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/askcom_the_search_underdog.html Sara Goo Thu, 24 May 2007 07:00:41 -0400 In case you haven't seen it, there's a new study out by the folks at Pew Internet & American Life Project, who took a look at how often people consult Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. Although there are many questions about the accuracy of entries on Wikipedia, the survey shows... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/report_more_than_onethird_of_a.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/report_more_than_onethird_of_a.html Sara Goo Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:49:25 -0400 Hey there. We've done it again. We've got a second-ever podcast up a little early this week. Sam Diaz is on vacation so I'm hosting this week's edition. Mike Musgrove joins me to talk about the future of digital music, off the news earlier this week that EMI plans to... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/week_two_for_the_new_tech_podc.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/week_two_for_the_new_tech_podc.html Sara Goo Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:45:25 -0400 Since I started following YouTube about a year ago, I've always wondered who decides which videos get featured on the homepage. As many YouTubers know, getting your video placed on the homepage can catapult one videomaker from obscurity into the user-generated hall of fame (which mostly translates to bragging rights... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/youtube_do_post_not_ready.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/youtube_do_post_not_ready.html Sara Goo Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:00:20 -0400 Today, Google announced that they are testing out a new ad model called pay-per-action. Advertisers who now sign up with Google to place their tiny text ads on thousands of Web sites (labeled as "Ads by Google" at the bottom, top or margins of the page) currently pay Google for... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/googles_got_a_new_ad_strategy.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/googles_got_a_new_ad_strategy.html Sara Goo Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:34:53 -0400 Google has always claimed that click fraud is not a problem, at least for Google. Yet it never really provided any numbers indicating the volume of click fraud the company detected or how much money Google refunded to advertisers because of the problem. So it was anyone's guess as to... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/google_reveals_a_little_more_o.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/google_reveals_a_little_more_o.html Sara Goo Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:54:55 -0400 Steve Case stopped by The Post for lunch today and spent much of it talking about his new Revolution Health company and Web site. There's been a lot of buzz about this D.C. company and it's been confusing to understand exactly what Revolution Health is: A search engine/social networking Web... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/steve_case_20.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/steve_case_20.html Sara Goo Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:53:17 -0400 Which companies and industries have the best Web sites? According to a new study out today by the University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index, the browsing public loves e-commerce sites like Amazon.com but is less pleased with the offerings from the travel industry, like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. The... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/the_webs_most_consumerfriendly.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/the_webs_most_consumerfriendly.html Sara Goo Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:00:00 -0400 Google has developed dozens of products that it famously does not promote. So it was a little surprising to see that Google came out with its first commercial, or rather, series of commercials, on YouTube earlier this week promoting Google's free email accounts called GMail. GMail has been around for... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/now_starring_on_youtube_google.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/now_starring_on_youtube_google.html Sara Goo Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:45:38 -0400 I was watching the latest video from one of my favorite YouTube producers, HappySlip and came across a clip from another guy claiming to be the "YT reviewer." [YT = YouTube for the uninitiated] He goes just by "James" under the screen name thecruelworld, and produces slick, Siskel &... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/the_youtube_reviewer.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/the_youtube_reviewer.html Sara Goo Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:00:00 -0400 We were a little floored to get the news yesterday afternoon that a 17-year-old high school student from New Jersey received $4.1 million in venture funding for the Web site she co-founded, myYearbook.com. The site lets teens create their own digital yearbook, post pictures and connect with each other. There... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/yes_even_your_teen_can_become.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/yes_even_your_teen_can_become.html Sara Goo Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:00:00 -0400 You may have heard about a new Web site that launched earlier this week, called placeblogger.com. The whole idea is to organize blogs by location of the bloggers. Another site, called Outside In, is trying to do something similar. So I went to placeblogger and went to see how many... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/blogging_around_town.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/blogging_around_town.html Sara Goo Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:30:46 -0400 Every year, during the first week of January, I walk down to my nearest Borders and buy a new day planner for the new year. I know, this is terribly non-techie of me. But it started years ago when I got one of those Palm devices for Christmas. Shortly after,... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/new_year_new_calendar_debate.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/01/new_year_new_calendar_debate.html Sara Goo Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:41 -0400