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A Wild Week For Facebook, And Its Users
Facebook has had quite a week. If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity then this week…
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Firefox Extension Resizes Shortened URLs
Tools for shortening URLs have become very popular in the age of microblogging, but shortening a URL to incomprehensible code makes it impossible to know what you’re clicking on. The now quintessential microblogging service is Twitter, which limits messages sent to a group of followers to 140 characters. This makes it difficult to post URLs with long set of parameters that follow. The necessity to…
Google Most Visited Property In January
Tax related Web sites had the biggest gains in traffic in the month of January with a 176 percent increase to 24.7 million visitors, according to comScore. Career and job search sites also saw strong growth during the month. The job search category was up 42 percent to 26.7 million visitors and the career category increased 26 percent to 48.9 million visitors. The growth in…
Google’s Matt Cutts Talks State of the Index
You may recall a little over a month ago Matt Cutts from Google's Search Quality Team talked about Google getting more transparent this year and making his talks from conferences available online so that everyone can easily see what he has to say.
Facebook Wants You to Monetize Your Apps
Facebook has addressed the monetization of Facebook Platform for people building applications into businesses. They've set up some new pages to help people share ideas with other developers on how to get the most out of their apps. Among the pages are:
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program Stumbles
Microsoft's Live Search cashback program is brilliant insofar as it recognizes that compensation makes the world go 'round; a little money helps people do things they don't like or change old habits. Only it appears that not everyone who's participating the cashback program is receiving the key ingredient.
