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Amazon Reduces Price On Kindle
Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle electronic book reader by 10 percent and it is now available to customers for…
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Facebook Opens Sandbox For New Profile Design
After all the hubbub earlier this week, it seemed possible that Facebook would roll out its new profile design in time for the three-day weekend. Instead, the company has taken the half-step of opening a beta sandbox to developers.
Selling Out Our Control Of The Internet
I apologize for the liberal quoting of Matt Cutts comments over on sphinn, but I think it’s important to understand the ramifications of something like this:
FriendFeed Adds Private Areas
FriendFeed (the social news streamer run by a team of by now seven ex-Google employees) got a new tab on top to create rooms. A room is a public or private area for discussions circling around one topic, group or need. For instance, you could create an invite-only room for discussing a specific work project, adding some other FriendFeed members.
Yahoo Makes Minor Changes To Advertisement Layout
According to Search Engine Roundtable Yahoo! has incorporated some minor changes in the advertisement layout of its SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) and has also reduced the number of advertisements shown in the SERPs. They have now relocated the position of the display URL under the description. The advertisement layout now also contains only three advertisements, instead of four as in the previous layout.
Online Daters Face Obstacles
Couples who meet online do not always work out because they select partners who are not compatible and they develop emotional ties before meeting in person, an Australian university researcher has found.Women were more likely to choose the wrong partner as they become attracted to humorous comments and witty emails, according to psychologist Matthew Bambling from the Queensland University of Technology.
