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Mark Zuckerberg and I aren’t Facebook friends. That’s cool; I don’t know him. Until recently, all I could see of his profile…
AOL's MapQuest has announced the launch of "360 View," a feature that may remind Google users of Google Maps Street view. For now, it's available for 30 cities and 13 suburbs in the United States, with more on the way. "We have studied our industry, gleaning tidbits here and there, and polled our customer base in creating a simple, easy-to-use interface that fits seamlessly into…
LinkedIn has launched a new addition to its People Search Experience. It's called "Faceted Search". Faceted search allows you to search for a person and narrow that search down by specific "facets" as you go along, in order to quickly find the most relevant profiles possible. Users are presented with categories under the following facets as they search: current company, past company, location, relationship, industry,…
The Los Angeles city government is moving ahead with its plan to embrace Google Apps. Today, 34,000 city employees are supposed to switch to it from an old system, and the mood appears to be much more "excited" than "nervous" at this point in time. The L.A. City Council approved a $7.25 million Google Apps contract in late October, but not everyone was enthusiastic about…
Amazon has released an iPhone app for the Kindle to over 60 countries. Now users in a total of 64 countries can read Kindle books on their iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
Google is a master of online advertising, and in recent days, has more than ever been vilified as an enemy of the newspaper industry. People were understandably surprised, then, to find ads for Chrome plastered all over a UK newspaper this morning. The Metro is a free paper targeted at commuters in 16 cities. It's supposed to be the world's largest free paper and the…
