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As I was writing a piece on RushmoreDrive, the search engine (and more) that was created as a way to provide relevant…
Online holiday shopping continues to be on par with last year, with spending through December 14, totaling $20.17 billion, according to comScore.For the first fourteen days beginning December 1 (Cyber Monday), sales totaled $9 billion, up 2 percent compared to a year ago. The most recent week saw ecommerce sales slipping 2 percent.
You can almost hear the "snip-snip" of cost-cutting scissors at work. Following the forced departure of 1,500 employees last Wednesday, Jumpcut and Kickstart, two of Yahoo's more experimental and less popular sites, are facing similar fates.
Google has released AdWords Editor version 7.0, a mere two months after 6.5 came out as Barry Schwartz points out at Search Engine Land. Google did not make any major announcements about the release, but just kind of put it out there, and we have not yet seen much in the way of user reactions.
Last week we launched TwellowHood, part of our popular Twellow service, and a way to find people who are on Twitter by the cities they live in. This lets you find out who close to you is using Twitter, and can lead to you making some connections with locals that you may not have otherwise.
ESPN has launched a redesign of ESPN.com in beta that offers a simpler design and navigation for its users.The new site had been in a closed beta test phase for 10 days to ESPN Insider subscribers and will now run along side the current ESPN.com for the rest of December. The redesigned site will launch fulltime on Monday, January 5 and replace the current site.
