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What’s Going on with Facebook’s Valuation?
Conflicting reports, none confirmed, are circulating today about Facebook’s latest attempts at raising funding.
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Internet Major Resource For Political News
More than half of Americans used the Internet as a political resource during the 2008 election, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Some 55 percent of adults and 74 percent of all Internet users went online for news and information about the election or to communicate with others about the race. Nearly half (45%) of Americans watched online videos related to politics…
The Most Important Domains and Pages on the Web
SEOmoz has a couple of very interesting charts showing the top 500 domains and the top 500 pages being linked to from different places. This paints a pretty good picture of what sites are held in the highest regards by content producers.
Buying and Selling Twitter Accounts?
CNN has acquired "the services" of the creator of one of the most popular accounts on Twitter, which is "cnnbrk," an account that posts CNN breaking news. Currently, the account has just under a million followers. Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch spoke with James Cox, the account holder and has confirmation from CNN that the account is now in their possession. But it's not like they…
Google Referral Change Linked to Faster Search Results Experiment
This week, it was announced that Google was making changes to search referral URLs. Basically, where URLs looked like this before: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search They will start looking more like this:
Online-Only Newspapers Face Uphill Battle
Newspapers that make the move to online-only risk losing 75 percent of their revenue and a decline in Web traffic, according to researchers from City University in London. Their study focused on the Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat, which stopped its print version and went online- only in December 2007. The move was made after the paper had suffered significant losses. By going online-only the papers…
