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Adult Themed Rooms Pop Up In Google’s Lively

The graphics in Google’s 3D chat world Lively shine, but behind the scenes the Lively team also seems busy squashing minor and major early-release bugs. And since some days, Lively got its first social phenomenon, too: the almost meme-like creation of cyber sex rooms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, or is there?

Google Talks Ranking Factors

Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking” at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.

FCC Penalty For Comcast? Fuggedaboutit

That possible sanction for Comcast's admitted use of traffic shaping software to interfere with customer broadband accounts when using peer to peer software apparently evaporated after further review.

Fake Steve Jobs Retires

Fake Steve Jobs, outed some time ago as Forbes' Daniel Lyons, is retiring his satirical blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" thus ending one of the more enduring runs as pop Web iCon.