Archive for April, 2009

Mobile And Social Network Advertising Predicted To Grow

Thursday, 30th April 2009

According to the results of recent studies conducted by Forrester Research, mobile advertising and social network advertising are set to grow at a phenomenal rate in the USA. (more…)

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Microsoft Vine Debuts

Wednesday, 29th April 2009

Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. (more…)

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StumbleUpon Makes It Easier To Stumble

Tuesday, 28th April 2009

All good things that happen to StumbleUpon seem to go largely un-noticed and under the radar. They recently updated their submission process without making any announcement even on their own blog. (more…)

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RealTime Notifications And New Channel Layouts On YouTube

Monday, 27th April 2009

Since sites like Facebook and FriendFeed have already enabled real time interaction for users on their site, YouTube is starting to do the same. A new feature called YouTube RealTime is now being tested on a limited basis. (more…)

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The Terminator On Twitter

Friday, 24th April 2009

Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation, has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept for self promotion. (more…)

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Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark

Thursday, 23rd April 2009

Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. (more…)

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Parisians Take To The Streets To Protest Facebook Redesign

Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

There is a saying that goes, ‘Change is the only constant’, which is quite true, but it is equally true that ‘all change is resisted’ at least initially. The second phrase seems to apply to the case of the social networking site Facebook in France. (more…)

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Ning Celebrates One Million Social Networks

Tuesday, 21st April 2009

Around the same time that Ashton Kutcher managed to collect one million followers on Twitter, Ning has created its one millionth network. (more…)

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First Amazon, Now Google In Anti-Gay Row

Monday, 20th April 2009

Amazon.com recently upset a lot of their gay clients by removing the sales rankings for several gay titles from their collection. Now, search giant Google is likely to find itself in the middle of the same contreversy due to a faux-pas that has been found on the AdWords system. (more…)

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The Race For One Million Twitter Followers

Friday, 17th April 2009

Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds. Its following grew by an unbelievable 75% from February to March this year, with site visits doubling. The site has its celebrity users to thank for this sudden growth spurt. (more…)

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Jumptap Launches tapMatch Mobile Ad Platform

Thursday, 16th April 2009

A new mobile advertising service called tapMatch has just been launched by mobile ad solutions provider, Jumptap. tapMatch offers pay per click mobile advertising. (more…)

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What’s New With AccuraCast?

Wednesday, 15th April 2009

A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. (more…)

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Popular Brands Succumb To Sneaky Twitter Advertising

Tuesday, 14th April 2009

A number of popular brands have been recently caught paying for undercover publicity on Twitter. These brands are paying Twitter users, via the Magpie ad network, to tweet about their products. (more…)

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Yahoo! Updates Image Search, Quality Better Than Google

Thursday, 9th April 2009

Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. (more…)

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Digg Bar Launched And Exploited

Wednesday, 8th April 2009

Last month we had reported on a potential Digg toolbar that would compete with StumbleUpon.

Digg has now launched a new product called the ‘DiggBar’, which appears at the top of the browser whenever users click on any story on Digg. The DiggBar is portable to any website, making social news sharing much easier, but ways to exploit it are already cropping up. (more…)

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Google Discontinues AdSense Video Ads

Tuesday, 7th April 2009

Following another round of product and performance reviews, Google has decided to shut down their video ads feature, just over a year after it was introduced. (more…)

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Portable Contacts Provides Secure Social Data Portability

Monday, 6th April 2009

Google introduced a new system called ‘Portable Contacts’, last month, to make it possible for third party websites to access a user’s friends list without requiring them to disclose their password. (more…)

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Is Google About To Acquire Twitter?

Friday, 3rd April 2009

Undisclosed sources have apparently informed TechCrunch that Google is holding negotiations to buy over the popular microblogging site Twitter. (more…)

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Potential Twitter Revenue Model

Thursday, 2nd April 2009

Twitter has gained immense popularity in the last year, and seems to have finally decided to try and generate some revenue. The popular micro-blogging service has publicly acknowledged the possibilities of two potential revenue generation models. (more…)

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China Bans YouTube, Again

Wednesday, 1st April 2009

YouTube, seems to have run into trouble with the Chinese authorities yet again. The site was blocked in China, again, last week. (more…)

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