Firefox Kicking Microsoft Tail In Europe

Though Firefox usage has reached only 18 percent of the US market (quite the rise, actually), the browser is gaining much more ground in Europe, and the latest version is outpacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.

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Will AOL Charge More Now?

Nielsen/Netratings has just started ranking Web brands.  It does this by measuring “engagement” by total minutes spent with the brand and unique audience.  Brands that had a large unique audience spending a long time engaged had the highest score.  AOL came in first, followed by Yahoo!, then MSN/Windows Live, with Google coming in fifth.

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Google Goofs Up “Bourne,” Threadless Contests?

Google’s “Bourne Ultimatum” and Threadless t-shirt contests both looked like fun - and potentially rewarding - activities, but they’ve (so far) failed to impress.  The Bourne site is suffering from a number of technical problems; the Threadless competition appears to have outlawed a perfectly natural course of action.

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Things To Remember When You Research Blogging

Forgive me. I err on the side of art. That means I don't like formulas much. Formulas give us over-saturation of reality shows, twisted versions of pure originals, and Spice Girl reunions. While I understand that making the intangible tangible can be valuable, the true visionaries pay no attention to how you're supposed to do it.

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Google-less Sharogle May Go On

Imagine if Google paid $1 for every search you performed - pretty cool, right?  Now, Sharogle couldn’t afford nearly that rate, but it was, by all accounts, “a search engine that shares its revenue with users.”  Emphasis on “was” - Google pulled its ads from the site, and Sharogle now faces an uncertain future.

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