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We all know that social media is "where it's at" these days. People are spending more and more of their time on…
Comments on blogs posts and articles have in the past generally been a good measurement of how people have engaged with content, but as the web becomes more social and "real-time," the conversation is going all over the place, and there are other ways that people are engaging in conversation about content (this is why shareability is so important by the way).
A federal court in the Northern District of California has upheld a December 2008 judgment which awarded Verizon $33.15 million in a cybersquatting case against OnlineNIC, an Internet domain registration company. The case is based on OnlineNIC's attempts to take advantage of Verizon and its customers by using names that are easily confused with legitimate Verizon names.
Yesterday, we reported that this year's Summer of Code had come to an end. Google provided a lot of statistics about the program, and the whole thing sounded very impressive. Today, we got the chance to talk to a student who was actually involved.
Update: Hear what Matt Cutts has to say about Caffeine in this exclusive interview with Webproworld:
Retweeting is a phenomenon that has taken the Twitter world by storm. The concept began when somebody added the letters "RT" to somebody else's tweet and posted it as their own. The idea caught on on a massive scale, and now there are services that utilize retweeting as the backdrop of their entire purposes. "Some of Twitter's best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative…
