Category Archives: Social Networking

YouTube’s New In-Video Ad Format

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 22, 2007. Filed under Search News, Social Networking. No comments.
New video ad format on Youtube

Google announced today that it will be launching a new “in-video” ad format on its sister site YouTube.  The new ad format is supposed to be 10 times more effective than the existing ad formats.  The new ads will be in the form of “animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a [...]

Digg Dumps Google Ads for MSN

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 26, 2007. Filed under Search News, Social Networking. No comments.

Social networking site Digg has dropped Google Ads on its site for rival Microsoft AdCenter.  The details of the deal were not disclosed as both companies declined to comment. Digg is MS AdCenter’s second high profile social networking client, the first was Facebook which was signed up a year ago.  This is what Steve Berkowitz, a senior VP of Microsoft’s [...]

Facebook Lawsuit – Stolen Idea?

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 23, 2007. Filed under Social Networking. 1 Comment.
facebook profile of orlando bloom

Mark Zuckerberg is facing a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea and source code behind the internet phenomena that is Facebook. The lawsuit was brought about 3 years ago by 3 of Mark’s Harvard fellow student who claim they hired Zuckerberg to help them build the site that was to be named ConnectU.  The 3 claimants, [...]

MySpace to Rival YouTube

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on June 29, 2007. Filed under Search News, Social Networking. No comments.

MySpace has announced that it will upgrade the video service it currently has offers on its site.  The upgrade will include a move to a seperate domain (MySpaceTV).  The new site is supposed to rival YouTube in terms of service, presentation and content.  MySpaceTV will be available to all MySpace users wether or not they have [...]

YouTube in 9 New Markets

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on June 22, 2007. Filed under Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking. No comments.
youtube logo

During the recent Google press event in Paris, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announced the launch of YouTube in 9 new markets/languages, these include Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland, and the UK. The launch of Youtube in these 9 new markets is part of Google’s strategy to begin delivering ads targeted at [...]