Future:Media:Change

Google celebrates the 30th birthday of Pac-Man in true Google fashion, with a “Doodle.” This Doodle has a surprise. It is actually a playable Pac-Man game for one or two players. I wonder what they will do for my birthday.

GoogleLabs launched Living Stories last year, as an experiment with content partners The Washington Post and The New York Times. While the experiment has now finished,  Google has open-sourced the code it and made a Wordpress plug-in to boot.
The video explains the concept but for the skim readers, Living Stories, basically brings current events into a wider context by providing a background on a current news stories, by serving up related information about the event/issue, instead of traditional search which returns information mainly about the incident itself.

Living Stories was …

In a recent study, Hubspot found that small and medium sized B2C businesses that used Twitter saw twice as many business leads as those that didn’t. Blogging significantly increased business leads for both B2B and B2C businesses.

On Friday, Google announced that site speed is now part of its search ranking algorithm — that is to say your website will perform better on Google search results if it loads faster. But that’s not the only reason to pay attention to your site’s load time. Faster site performance also results in better user experience, more page views, more sales, and even lower equipment costs.

Are mobile phones the key to educating rural women? Do you want to read Twitter on a blog? Is Google invading your TV set? Can Twitter predict the future? Do you “Like” Coke on Facebook? Is Glenn Beck an asshole? These answers and more after the jump in the inaugural issue of FMC Wire

The 99th, 100th, or 101st International Women’s Day (depending on your math), was quiet on the web and avoided Twitter trending. However, Yahoo! jumped in where Google faltered with their own special logo and page celebrating women.

The Pew Research Center have released the fourth version of their ” The Future of the Internet” series, which is pulled together from surveys and questions to leading digital thinkers and figures around the world.