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As you may know, Facebook surpassed MySpace in traffic a while back. New data from Hitwise indicates that the launch of Facebook Connect likely played a major role in this.
The following graph shows a major increase in market share of social networking visits starting with the time when Facebook Connect was launched:
If you’re the sort of person who likes new things, here’s a bit of good news: YouTube is testing fresh versions of the Inbox, My Contacts, and My Videos features. Moreover, even if you’re not part of the original (randomly selected) test group, you can opt in and try them out.
Google probably hires around 40 people on a daily basis; it almost certainly achieves that every week. Not every company’s worth $160 billion, however, and so it’s significant that Blinkx, which has a much smaller budget, has added a few employees and raised its overall headcount to 40.
Cars, cars, cars – I like ‘em, and it would seem that Internet Brands does, as well. The company, which already owned sites like Autos.com and CarsDirect, has now bought at least eight popular automotive forums.
Over two months ago, authorities in Turkey found a video on YouTube that implied Ataturk, the country’s founder, was gay. Turkey banned YouTube, YouTube removed the clip, and the Turkish government got way too cocky – it’s now reserved the legal right to block any website with content it finds offensive to Ataturk’s memory.
Are you trying to attract business with a no-name, no-differences-from-competitors company identity?
Built-in access to Verizon’s wireless broadband technology, EV-DO, will be featured from three big makers.
A US Justice Department report has concluded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation missed several opportunities to detect and address terrorist threats prior to the Sept. 11th hijackings.
To analyze Google results on several Google data centers we have developped a free online tool called Google Data Centers Analysis Tool.
If you operate several websites, each with its own domain name, signing up of separate hosting accounts can be an expensive proposition. Even if your hosting company offers the add-on domain feature (which will allow you to add different domains to the same hosting account) you will be charged a monthly fee for each domain you add, sometimes costing almost the same as your full hosting fee. The solution is to open a reseller account.
