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In early April, Google clarified some misconceptions about AdSense after they changed AdSense URLs to DoubleClick URLs. In an extension of that…
The Senate Rules Committee decided today to make US Senator roll-call votes available in XML format. The change is part of a growing effort to make government more transparent. After much petition and long after the House of Representatives had done so, a feed showing all votes from individual Senators is now available. Previously, only how the Senate voted as a group was easily accessible,…
Here we go again. More rumors of Twitter being acquired by some company. This time it's not Google, Microsoft, or Facebook. It's Apple. I'm taking this (as should everyone else) with a baseball-sized chunk of salt at this point, but when these rumors start to swirl, we can't just ignore them entirely. So here's what the rumors are based on. Owen Thomas of Valleywag writes:
In nine days' time, a lot of Facebook employees will likely wind up carrying cardboard boxes full of office supplies to their cars. Fans of the social network don't need to worry about the company going under, though; instead, everyone will just be relocating to a vastly bigger workspace at the Stanford Research Park.
Update: VentureBeat reports: "We’ve learned that Massive, the company’s in-game advertising business, suffered something like 75 percent layoffs."
The economy is making online retailers change their marketing tactics in order to acquire and retain customers, according to findings from the "State of Retailing Online 2009," the 12th annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research.
