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The United States Marines, the Mormon Church, and the Korean Department of Tourism are all paying Australian-based uSocial to game Digg.com for…
BusinessWeek asks if Twitter is the Next Monster.com, which is an interesting question because at PubCon South, Top Rank Marketing's Lee Odden referenced a company that bought ads with Monster (and other places like it) but got better results from Twitter.
Yahoo has introduced a new way for site owners to enhance their Yahoo Search results using SearchMonkey. If you have flash videos, games, presentations, etc. you can have them show up right in Yahoo's SERPs. Yahoo shares an example of how Hulu added the following code: <link rel="image_src" href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg" />
Sydney, Australia-based web developer Michael Air recounts how his “light bulb” moment about real time search came as he was looking for a new hosting company. Instead of looking on Google, he consulted Twitter about a specific brand. “Ten pages in and 99 percent of comments were saying how bad that hosting company was,” he told Webproworld. Twitter, then, becomes a kind of collective representation…
Social networking and blogging have become more popular than sending email, according to a new report from Nielsen. More than two-thirds (67%) of the global online population now goes online to visit social networks and blogs. "Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience," says John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online.
Explore the complex relationship between objectivity and bias in journalism, focusing on recent debates surrounding Wikipedia's editing practices.
