Posts on ‘December 19th, 2008’

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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 does mommy turn for a child and parent-friendly site for micro and [...]

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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 some new statistics on user growth and engagement on the site. It now has more than [...]

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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 social networks, as popular as they are, can’t make any real money. After all, who’s going [...]

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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 the Website features of the top 100 newspapers in the U.S. Among the findings: Nearly [...]

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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 they launched a new feature called Alerts that will let users track keywords included in comments [...]

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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 RSS back?” (available to you for just $279.00)
The report, as blogged by Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion, included the [...]

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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 hit this week with two recent announcements. These announcements will also have an impact on the mobile [...]

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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 was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If [...]