Study Suggests Facebook Better for the Brain Than Twitter
Results from a recent study indicate that Facebook may actually be good for your brain, while services like Twitter and YouTube may not be, at least when it comes to the part of the brain that deals with memory.
Ex -Yahoo Exec Joins AOL
AOL has named former Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse as President of its Internet and Mobile Communications.
Garlinghouse will also head up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus, acting as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm led by Jon Brod.
Google News SEO Tips – Ranking in News Search
I thought that one of the more interesting topics addressed at Search Engine Strategies San Jose a while back was that of SEO and the publishing industry. This is an industry seemingly at war with entities like Google (at least partially), even though there are clearly measures publishers could take, which would make Google and Google News in particular work to their advantage.
Facebook Pages to Get Click Through Rates
If you are the owner or an admin of a Facebook page, you are probably familiar with Facebook’s Insights. This is Facebook’s analytical offering that lets page admins see how fans are engaging.
Responses To Twitter and Fox’s Social Media TV Experiment
Earlier this week we told you of Fox and Twitter teaming up to create some buzz about repeats of the shows Fringe and Glee. Well, hopefully there is no such thing as bad press because the comments we received about the experiment were unanimous: FAIL! Check out our impassioned reader feedback.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Microsoft Granted Motion to stay Word Injunction
Update: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reportedly granted Microsoft’s motion to stay an injunction that would prohibit the software giant from selling Word. The injunction had an effective date of Oct. 10, but the motion to stay blocks the injunction until the appeal process is complete, according to The Microsoft Blog.
Bit.ly Shortens URL Shorteners
URL-shortening service bit.ly, the favorite of Twitter, has introduced a new URL-shortening service, or an extension of the original one rather. The new one is j.mp, which as you can see by looking at it resides at a domain with very few characters.
That is exactly the reason bit.ly has introduced it. The company says that for some people, "every character counts," and that is certainly true in the Twitter age, where a maximum of 140 characters is allowed per tweet.
Microsoft Answers Common adCenter API Questions
Microsoft says it has had a lot of questions lately about access to adCenter API tokens, and the company has addressed these issues on the adCenter API blog. The API program is still in the "pilot" phase, so API tokens are not available to everybody.
Google Releases Instant Messaging API
Google has announced the release of a new API for building Talk bots on top of Google App Engine, Google’s product that lets developers create and host web apps on the Google infrastructure.
Google Introduces New Drawing and Form Features for Docs
Google has launched some new features for Google Docs. They have made a couple improvements to drawings and added several new features to Forms.