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Google’s Ongoing Dedication To Quality Advertisers

No Comments 26 March 2012

The market commonly known as online advertising was created by Google in an attempt to monetize search. As one of the early pioneers of search technology, they were required to create value for consumers and advertisers by providing quality search results. Slowly overtime, Google created one of the largest search engines in the world, boasting [...]

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“Do Not Track” and other FTC Privacy Rulings

No Comments 26 March 2012

The United States federal trade commission has called for  stronger regulation of the information, often “consumer data”, collected by major U.S. corporations that accumulate a diverse and massive amount of personal, financial information about millions of consumers. The FTC is pushing for a provision that would allow people access to the information being collected on them.   Helping [...]

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Zynga Buys OMGPOP For 210 Million Dollars

No Comments 21 March 2012

Zynga has become quite a household name over the past few years. Whether people actually know they are using a Zynga product or not, the majority of American Facebook users have most likely come across something Zynga owns or was in the process of acquiring. There continued success is an indicator that he is doing [...]

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Mozilla Labs Apps – HTML 5

No Comments 13 December 2011

The Mozilla Labs Apps project allows the original creators, devs and coders, to design beautiful, complex HTML5 app experiences that can be used by any device:desktops, smartphones, tablets, and whatever else comes along.  Mozilla apps will be able to accomplish this universal application with the use of new web standards and open technologies such as [...]

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DuckDuckGo A Private Search Engine

No Comments 06 December 2011

The search industry in the United States has been taken over by Google. Microsoft, one of the largest technology competitors has not been able to dent the market share held by Google. The acquisition of Yahoo might help even the playing field, but they need to prove to users that their service is better than [...]

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Facebook Purchases Gowalla

2 Comments 03 December 2011

Facebook has officially bought the social networking company Gowalla. The deal was solidified today for an undisclosed amount. It is safe to say that founders Josh Williams and Scott Raymond are very happy with the sale. Most internet start ups dream of being purchased by the big players like Google, Facebook or Microsoft. Nothing validates [...]

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Facebook Files for IPO by 2012

No Comments 29 November 2011

The super giant social media conglomerate, which is Facebook, is looking to file for IPO by the end of this year.  Facebook is looking at raising around $10 billion dollars, which will help boost their company value to about $100 billion dollars!  Pretty big numbers, but not out of scope when thinking about Facebook, an [...]

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Microdonations Encourage Innovation Thanks To Flattr.com

No Comments 17 November 2011

Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson are the brains behind this ambitious project. The two co-founders of Flatter.com developed the idea in 2007, but a working platform was not available until 2010. Sometimes it just takes a few years to move from the drawing board to physical implementation. The original idea behind Flattr.com is the traditional [...]

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.XXX Domain Names on Dec. 6th 2011

No Comments 17 November 2011

The adult entertainment industry has always been a major financial force online, one of the first real market segments to make billions off online advertising many years ago.  Porn, as it is often called, is still doing pretty well despite every other market and industry flopping in the stale U.S. economy. Yet, there has always [...]

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Microsoft Poised To Release A New Social Network?

No Comments 16 November 2011

Microsoft has released information confirming the development of a social network A couple months ago Microsoft caused a stir in the tech community when a strange service known as Tulalip appeared on Socl.com. The information page seemed to promote a new social search engine. The page was quickly taken down and has remained blank ever [...]

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Co-Founder of Diaspora Commits Suicide

No Comments 14 November 2011

Tragic news today coming out of San Francisco, one of our favorite social media entrepreneurs and visionaries, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, passed away this weekend in his home.  The San Francisco police have publicly stated that it is believed to be a suicide at this time.  There is currently an on going investigation into the circumstances of [...]

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Vkontakte.ru Has What It Takes To Stop Facebook Takeover

No Comments 10 November 2011

The most popular social network in Russia is Vkontakte.ru Social networking is a major part of the internet today. More countries than ever before have access to the internet and the ability to communicate via social networks. The technology can be argued as a benefit to society and somewhat of a nuisance as well. I [...]

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HTML5 Is Already Dictating The Future Of Web Content

No Comments 09 November 2011

Although the topic is relatively new, 35% of the top 100 websites are using HTML5 The subject of HTML5 has been a hot topic on the internet for the past few months. Part of the buzz is due to Facebook’s launch of their HTML research center that allows users to experiment and develop apps using [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Released

No Comments 08 November 2011

Mozilla has a reputation for updating their browser on a fairly regular basis. I often feel that every time I use the browser it requires some kind of update. But this does not stop me from using their product as it is 1,000 times better than anything Microsoft has released in the form of Internet [...]

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Twitter and iOS 5

No Comments 20 October 2011

It is no secret that Twitter has slowly been falling behind the other social media giants, Facebook and Google +. Whether Google + can be considered one of the top dogs yet, is still debatable, but I will give Google as a company the benefit of the doubt. (You know what they say about assumptions [...]

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