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YouTube Testing Pre-Roll Ads

YouTube has now decided to launch their pre-roll ad service outside the U.S.A. As a first step towards achieving that goal, they have started trialling pre-roll ads on YouTube in the U.K. More »

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in Video.

How Soon Will Mobile Search Catch Up With PC?

When search services were first started on mobile phones, they were very basic, almost rudimentary in nature. However things have changed with emerging technology, and now search patterns on the latest mobile handsets are getting closer to those on PC’s. More »

Posted on June 1st, 2009 in Mobile.

Yahoo! Buzz Launches In India

Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. More »

Posted on May 29th, 2009 in Internet.

Vodafone’s New Mobile Internet Services

Mobile service provider Vodafone has recently announced a lot of interesting new services that will encourage the growth of new generation mobile Internet applications. This will be made possible by providing service developers with a single access point to Vodafone’s customers worldwide. More »

Posted on May 28th, 2009 in Mobile.

Google Suggest Includes Links And Ads

Google Suggest has been recently updated to include link suggestions as well as sponsored links along with the list of suggestions. More »

Posted on May 27th, 2009 in Google.

China Telecom Selects mInfo For Mobile Search

China Telecom was recently on the look out for a partner to provide search solutions to their subscribers. They have now announced that they have chosen Shanghai-based company, mInfo, as their partner to provide mobile search services to users all over China. More »

Posted on May 26th, 2009 in Mobile, Search.

Facebook Uses OpenId

Facebook has been in favor of openness for quite a while now, which is evident from their Facebook Connect facility. As a further step in that direction they have now joined the group of OpenId relying parties. More »

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 in Social Media.

Google Launches Barcode Scan On Android

After the success of Google Product Search for Mobiles, which was recently launched, Google has now launched a barcode scanning service which can be used from the Android mobile handset. More »

Posted on May 21st, 2009 in Google.

Google Search Options Panel

A few days ago, Google announced the launch of their new Search Options Panel. This new feature will enable users to have more control over their search results, as they will be able to sort out the results with reference to time and content. More »

Posted on May 20th, 2009 in Google.

Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass partners revealed some very interesting habits of women as far as the use of blogs and other forms of social media are concerned. More »

Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Blogs.

Facebook Brings Live Updates To News Feed

Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. More »

Posted on May 13th, 2009 in Social Media.

Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content

Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. More »

Posted on May 12th, 2009 in News, Search, Social Media.

Mixx Debuts Ad Rating Service

The social book marking site Mixx has introduced a new service, called ‘the sifter’, which will enable “elite” members of Mixx to vote on five different ads of any format that an advertiser uploads, thus giving the advertisers an idea of which ad will be the most effective. More »

Posted on May 11th, 2009 in Marketing, Social Media.

Google Still Top Global Brand

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. More »

Posted on May 7th, 2009 in Business, News.

How Loyal Are Twitter Users?

It is a well known fact that Twitter has grown at an explosive rate lately - their unique audience was up 100% in March - however, the site does not seem to be very addictive to its new users. More »

Posted on May 6th, 2009 in Social Media.

Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm

The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. More »

Posted on May 5th, 2009 in Internet, News.