Online news

1) Google SERP’s dominated by one domain.

http://searchengineland.com/google-search-results-dominated-by-one-domain-49025

2) Facebook launches ‘Places’ to compete with Google Locations and Foursquare

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6450/Facebook-Places-Launches-Allows-Businesses-To-Check-In.aspx

3) Yahoo Search Engine Gains Market Share, Google Drops

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-17/yahoo-search-engine-gains-market-share-google-drops.html

4) Google should stop bidding in it’s own search engine

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/google_adwords_house_ads_conflict_of_interest/

5) E-commerce stats round up from E-consultancy

http://econsultancy.com/blog/6426-e-commerce-stats-round-up-2

* Advertisers to Spend $1.7 Billion on Social Networks in 2010

http://mashable.com/2010/08/16/social-networking-ad-spend-2010

Lately there is a lot of talk about HTML 5 and when is going to be ready, we added a few useful links that might help you understand more.

What is HTML 5 by Wikipedia:

HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears.

A great infographic on what is HTML 5

http://media.focus.com/images/uploaded/fyi/wtf-html5-infographic/HTML5__.jpg

HTML Wont be ready till 2022?!

http://www.webmonkey.com/2008/09/html_5_won_t_be_ready_until_2022dot_yes__2022dot

HTML 5  Web development to the next level

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

Over the last few months the Groupon war has been moved to the UK and in particular London. Groupon was the first company that started in 2008 in Chicago. The way this works is very simple:

1. Each day there is a different offer with at least 50% discount.
2. You only get it if enough people join that day. The site prompt the users to invite friends and share the offer on Facebook/Twitter
3. If the minimum number is filled the offer is available and a new offer appears the following day.

This model was rolled out to other several cities and since January 2010 there are at least 10 groupon voucher websites in the UK! Compared to the the size of the UK cities there are way too many websites. Some of the sites are extremely popular, some others merged in the mean time.

1. www.keynoir.com
2. www.groupola.com
3. www.mycitydeal.co.uk
4. www.scrumbuy.com
5. www.mypiggyback.com
6. www.likebees.com
7. www.wowcher.co.uk
8. www.vivavoucher.com
9. www.dealmob.co.uk
10. www.wahanda.com