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Is Twitter Really That Big?
Written by Doug Coleman / June 6, 2009 11:51 AM / 55 Comments

Web security SaaS company Purewire evaluated the profiles of millions of Twitter users to show the depth of a new tool it has created called Tweet Grade. While the tool

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Study: 1 in 3 Smartphone Owners Use Location Based Services
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 2, 2009 10:40 AM / 4 Comments

According to a new report from web analytics firm Compete, 1 in 3 smartphone users use a location based service at least once a month. Weather and navigation apps are

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StatPlot: Create Beautiful Sports Charts in Minutes
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 27, 2009 12:49 PM / 3 Comments

StatPlot is the newest project of sports statistic aggregator StatSheet and you're likely to enjoy it whether you're a sports fan or not. The site makes it easy to assemble

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Data.gov Now Live; Looks Nice But Short on Data
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 21, 2009 9:02 AM / 6 Comments

The long awaited catalog of public data from the US government launched this morning at Data.gov. Developers, watchdogs and data nerds around the world rejoiced - but the initial offering

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Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 28, 2009 1:28 PM / 17 Comments

Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form. The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but

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Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 20, 2009 9:32 AM / 23 Comments

Looking at a regular graph of traffic data from Digg and Facebook, it would be easy to assume that Digg is lagging far behind Facebook's staggering growth. However, Compete just

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Finally, A Practical Use for Second Life
Written by Sarah Perez / March 19, 2009 10:42 AM / 17 Comments

When you think of virtual worlds, the first one that probably pops into your head is Second Life, but in reality, there are a number of different virtual worlds out

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Hitwise: Twitter Drives Traffic to Blogs and Social Networks, But Not to Retail Sites
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 12, 2009 10:30 AM / 27 Comments

According to the latest data from Hitwise, Twitter sends most of its traffic to Google, Facebook, TwitPic, and MySpace. Overall, Twitter sends about 1 in 5 users to social networks

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The Real Winner of the Super Bowl? Dennys.com
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 6, 2009 10:13 AM / 10 Comments

This year's Super Bowl didn't feature a lot of outstanding ads, but according to the latest data from Compete, quite a few advertisers were able to get a sizable share

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Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data"
Written by Sarah Perez / February 2, 2009 7:32 AM / 9 Comments

During a talk at the New England Database Day conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google's Alon Halevy admitted that the search giant has "not been doing a good

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