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Google Tests Mobile Web Ads In Japan

Google has just wrapped up a successful test for advertising via mobile phones in Japan, according to Bloomberg. The Japanese mobile phone market, more robust and advanced than the US market, is often used to test mobile technologies.

Facebook + (No PR) = Car Crash

Facebook is an interesting phenomenon. It's a college-only social network -- oh, wait, college (but no junior colleges, and still some ignored colleges) and select high schools and some 8th grades -- that is supposed to connect college students that are on the same campus, and then extend that to other friends on other campuses, so you get the Breck shampoo effect (tell two friends,…

Combing The Shadows of MySpace

With every bright light comes the shadows - the dark edges ignored, even tolerated, for joy of illumination. MySpace.com's brightness is blinding to a new generation of bloggers and marketers, but there are shadows (lots of them) lurking: some peripheral, and others nearer the corona.