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Decide which is worse: Doctoring a video and posting it online to smear a political figure; or said political figure threatening libel…
Google's interface for the iPhone has been floating around America for a while, but in what is sure to be a welcome development, the search giant is now making it available in over 30 different markets and 15 new languages. A special iPhone-appropriate edition of Google News is spreading as well.
Look for the complaints to fly into the DoJ's antitrust department if Google and Yahoo broaden the scope of an advertising deal placing Google ads in Yahoo's search results.
StumbleUpon has been around a while, and if you're like 5 million others, you understand what an addictive, stimulus-response type network it really is. But like with other social networks such as Digg, Twitter, or Facebook, many marketers are still at a loss for how to make the most of it.
Actually, this article is more of a commentary on collective mental illness, exploitation and mountains made of molehills—no, that's not a boob joke. It's also about invented controversy for the sake of ogling eyeballs and links at the expense of a teenage girl who will be lucky if she's not in rehab on her 18th birthday.
Any event that involves free pizza and beer can't be bad, but a recent Yahoo-sponsored get-together seemed especially successful, and this could bode well for the company's location-based Fire Eagle service.
