Online Holiday Spending Up 7 Percent
Online holiday spending continues to be the one bright spot in the woeful economy, according to a new report from comScore.For the…
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Online holiday spending continues to be the one bright spot in the woeful economy, according to a new report from comScore.For the…
The AOL owned social networking site Bebo, has launched a "Social Inbox" that allows users to aggregate all of their social media into their profiles.The Social Inbox aggregates feeds and updates from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, and AIM. Users will also be able to access Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail in one-click. The new mail feature allows users to see previews of new email…
Forrester Research has released a report (you must fill out a form to get it) that details how much people trust different information sources. At the top of the list is email from people they know. At the bottom are company blogs. This is precisely why company blogs should be treated more like emails to friends.
Personalization can be nice; looked at one way, it's what leads the bartender at a favorite pub to get your Guinness the moment you arrive. It can be kind of a drag, too, though - do you want your friendly neighborhood pharmacist to remember your every problem? - and so personalization was weighed against privacy in an SES Chicago session called "Battle of the Browsers."
A Look Inside A Very Controversial Startup
Last week Google revealed the fastest growing search terms for the United States, which we looked at here. Now Google has released their year-end Zeitgeist, looking at a number of categories in (for the first time) over 30 different countries.