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Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters
Written by Lidija Davis / April 23, 2009 2:17 PM / 18 Comments
Digg, which has spent four years trying to level the playing field and democratize media, will soon receive a facelift. According to Kevin Rose, Digg's founder and chief architect, the Continue reading »


WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support
Written by Phil Glockner / April 23, 2009 2:15 PM / 27 Comments
WordPress, on their official blog, made a short announcement that Wordpress.com blog owners could now enable reply by email support for comments made to their blog. With a couple of Continue reading »


GeoCities Closure Signals End of an Era - Will Others Survive on Freemium Model?
Written by Richard MacManus / April 23, 2009 1:34 PM / 19 Comments
Yahoo has announced that its website creation service GeoCities, which it acquired for $4.5 billion in 1999, will close later this year. Existing customers are being encouraged to "upgrade" to Continue reading »


Nobody is Making Money Online from Susan Boyle Video (Yet)
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 23, 2009 12:16 PM / 10 Comments
Unless you lived in an exceptionally dark cave in the last two weeks, you probably weren't able to escape the Susan Boyle phenomenon. According to some metrics, over 100 million Continue reading »


Nielsen: Online Video Continues to Gain Momentum
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 23, 2009 10:07 AM / 3 Comments
In a new report, Nielsen Online takes a closer look at how social media and video sites have reshaped the web and the online advertising market over the last few Continue reading »


Google Product Search Finally Useful as Mobile Service
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 23, 2009 8:57 AM / 8 Comments
Google announced this morning that Google Product Search is now tightly integrated with mobile search results on the iPhone and Android. The new interface should make it easier to find Continue reading »


How Would You Like Google To Describe You? Vote Today
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 22, 2009 10:03 PM / 14 Comments
Yesterday, Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person's name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now Continue reading »


A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Written by Lidija Davis / April 22, 2009 5:06 PM / 2 Comments
After delivering her report to President Obama last Friday, Melissa Hathaway, the Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, today gave RSA Conference attendees Continue reading »


Digg Demos Optimized Datastreams
Written by Phil Glockner / April 22, 2009 2:15 PM / 14 Comments
Any good webmaster knows the cardinal rules of website optimization. Yahoo! wrote them all up years ago on its Developer Network site.digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/Digg_Demos_Optimized_Datastreams';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal'; And the Continue reading »


Tweetmeme Live: See What's Big on Twitter Right Now
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 22, 2009 12:42 PM / 5 Comments
Tweetmeme, a memetracker that tracks popular retweets on Twitter, just launched a real-time version of its service that displays tweets that are currently in heavy rotation on the popular microblogging Continue reading »


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