WATFive: Your Daily Guide To Web, Advertising & Technology News
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We at WATBlog are always looking for new ways to indulge our readers by covering best news across the Web,advertising and Technology spectrum. We started a new series named ‘WATTech’ a few weeks ago to give readers the insights on new surrounding technologies.
Today we are starting WAT Five, a daily guide wherein we would cover news related to WAT (web, advertising and Technology) space. We are still experimenting with this series so require your suggestions regarding which topics you would like to see getting covered more frequently.
1. Twitter – Linkedin goes in for cross-posting partnership
It seems every Social networking site wants to connect to Twitter. After Facebook (Twitter support for pages), Myspace now its turn of LinkedIn to link with Twitter. LinkedIn Users would be able to automatically post their status updates from LinkedIn to Twitter and vice versa. Twitter users will also be allowed to customize the way certain tweets are shared from their Twitter accounts by using hash tag such as #li or #in. So much that the word ‘LinkedIn’ was a one of the top trending topics on Twitter yesterday.
Allen Blue, LinkedIn’s co-founder and VP of product strategy, explains the partnership: “The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.”
(Via Guardian)
2. Yahoo to concentrate more on emerging nations to boost margins
Yahoo in a clear indication has announced its intention to focus more on emerging nations like India where Internet population is at nascent stage. It is also looking at tripling its margins from current 6 per cent to 18 per cent in few years.
It seems after forfeiting its right on search, Yahoo now sees Asian and Latin markets as major growth drivers and desperately wants new internet population in those markets to embrace its services. Yahoo would thus go for more partnerships and R & D innovation in these markets as its current services aren’t enough to attract new users.
(Via Reuters India)
3. Rupert Murdoch to remove its News Site’s from Google?
WATBlog has earlier covered the ongoing tussle between Google and traditional media publishers. We also suggested that Media publishers are just making unjust demands at a time when Google sends them traffic exposing their brands to unknown visitors.
Rupert Murdoch in an interview announced that it is thinking of taking out all News sites like: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times of London and many more from Google’s search engine.Even so when Google and its news provides 25% of WSJ.com’s traffic and amongst it 44% are new users on site.
Murdoch needs to understand that Google indeed may be making billions from searches but sends precious traffic to sites. Online publishers are seeing a decline in revenues due to lack of better monetization strategies adopted on their side. If tomorrow, facebook or Twitter earns money on pages showing news backlinks would it take it down there too??
(Via Venturebeat)
4. Twitter Lists 2 RSS : Convert Twitter lists into RSS Feeds:
Twitter has excited Social enthusiasts ever since it launched official lists support. A whole lot of services have cropped up tweaking support for Twitter list. Since Twitter lacks RSS feeds for list, Twitterlist2RSS is a service which allows you to receive feed updates on a particular twitter list.
To do so : a) visit : Twitterlist2rss [http://twiterlist2rss.appspot.com/]
b) Enter you list URL and Click ‘Get an RSS Feeds’.
In the next page you would get the RSS URL now if you want you can subscribe the List RSS feed in Google Reader or any reader of your choice.
To know the public lists of particular user try Listbrowser or Listorious (to get Useful Twitter list).
5. WebPagetest : Analyze site loading time and other useful Info:
A lighter Site could potentially increase your Ad revenues and Page views.In order to achieve lighter pages, many web page testing services are available and web page testing could also be performed through firefox plug-ins like firebug .
WebPagetest is yet another but commendable service to check the loading times of a web site and its components. Although the testing site do not look very user friendly at first but provide detail stats regarding the loading size of each components and other info like compress handling and time taken.
Worth reading : How to completely test your website
(Via makeuseof )
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Interesting series, raghav and watblog. I am happy to read the best five news in the WAT Space and nothing better then WATBlog covering it.