Daily Archives: December 19, 2008

Baby Blogging: 8 Trendy Tools Compared

Via Mashable December 18, 2008 – 9:15 am PDT – by Jennifer Van Grove 15 Comments When baby needs to blog, and in this day and age it seem almost a life necessity with babies twittering from the cradle, where … Continue reading

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Facebook Is Gaining Ground On Google In Time Spent On The Internet

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google. A couple days ago, Facebook released … Continue reading

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Beyond Facebook Gifts: Virtual Currencies 101

Via Mashable December 18, 2008 – 1:48 pm PDT – by Anu Shukla Anu Shukla is the Founder and CEO of Offerpal Media, the leading monetization solution for social applications and online communities. The word on the street is that … Continue reading

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Study: Newspaper Websites Are Still Figuring Out This Whole Conversation Thing

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies … Continue reading

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BackType Launches Google Alerts For Blog Comments

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on December 18, 2008 BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Today … Continue reading

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Is RSS adoption peaking?

Via Bogging Me Blogging You By Ed Lee On Monday, technology analyst house Forrester released a report that demonstrated consumer adoption of RSS had reached 11 per cent (versus almost 50 per cent of interactive marketers) and wonders: “What’s holding … Continue reading

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Flash moves forward with bumps in capacity and lifespan

Via ARS Technica By Jon Stokes | Published: December 18, 2008 – 09:35PM CT Two of the biggest knocks against the use of SSDs in the enterprise have been size and lifespan, but both of those arguments have taken a … Continue reading

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ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which … Continue reading

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