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A new social network would, at this point, need to be extremely special. The appearance of something Microsoft's working on has been…
The executive vice president of Yahoo's network division may be heading out the door. Jeff Weiner apparently plans to return from a four-week paternity leave, but rumor has it he won't stick around for long afterwards.
It wasn't that long ago the people behind Encyclopedia Britannica turned an academic nose up toward Wikipedia for its populist ways. That may have been a tad premature, especially when one counts 57 million monthly visitors versus Britannica's three million. Then again, Britannica's three million are paying visitors.
A site's flash intro may be appealing the first time you see it. The second, third, and four hundredth times, not so much. So what appears to be a new "skip intro" button from Google is an interesting gift.
Organizing an emerging search marketing conference series is difficult. Beyond the choice of topics and speakers, there are a range of structural and financial issues to be worked through, public relations to be conducted and marketing efforts to be undertaken. Competing with a growing number of other conferences, gatherings and seminars, new search marketing shows have to climb a slope steeper than most.
Earlier today, the subject was blogs. Now we're on to social networks. It seems people in the UK are becoming quite fond of the things, as statistics in two critical areas has jumped since last year.
