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The Day Has Come: Facebook Pushes People to Go Public

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 9, 2009 10:01 AM / 80 Comments

Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. Continue reading »

Don't Tell Your Boss: Dell Made $6.5m on Twitter

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 8, 2009 2:37 PM / 12 Comments

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Dell Computers announced today that it has now sold more than $6.5 million in product through links broadcast out to its Twitter followers. The company has more than 1 million Continue reading »

Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Bow to Facebook & Twitter

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 2, 2009 8:18 PM / 41 Comments

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Yahoo! announced this morning that it is adding Facebook Connect across many of its properties. This afternoon Google Friend Connect announced the inclusion of Twitter as a top-level log-in option. Continue reading »

The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet

Written by Richard MacManus / November 24, 2009 8:10 PM / 30 Comments

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A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Continue reading »

Regator Brings the Best Niche Blogs to Your iPhone

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 24, 2009 12:36 PM / 3 Comments

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Scott Lockhart used to tell his co-workers in the real estate industry that there was a lot of valuable information to be found by reading blogs. They, like all of Continue reading »

LinkedIn Finally Opens Platform: The Good & Bad News

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 23, 2009 1:08 PM / 14 Comments

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Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series Continue reading »

The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web

Written by Guest Author / November 20, 2009 11:14 AM / 14 Comments

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The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the Continue reading »

What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 19, 2009 4:34 PM / 14 Comments

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Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by Continue reading »

Unfriending: Are People Online Shedding Friends? (Debate)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 16, 2009 4:05 PM / 22 Comments

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The New Oxford American Dictionary announced its Word of the Year today and like everyone else, the organization is keeping an eye on the internet. Its selection? unfriend - verb Continue reading »

How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years (Stats)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 16, 2009 10:49 AM / 13 Comments

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Reader engagement with blogs has changed dramatically over the last three years, primarily because of the rise of online social networks, according to new numbers released by analytics firm Postrank Continue reading »

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