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Facebook Feels the Pinch and Decides to Make More MoneyTwo bits of interesting news on the Facebook front this evening. Nick O’Neill at All Facebook noticed that the social network has created additional ad inventory for sale on their sidebar, and we received details on the Application Verification Program that was announced earlier this week.&... |
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How I Tweet Plus Thoughts on Twitter's FutureIf you haven't seen it, Darren Rowse has a great new blog about Twitter called TwiTip. This week he and his followers interviewed me about how I started using the service, how I Tweet today and what companies who want to engage on Twitter should do. I won't steal his thunder, but want to share an... |
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Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]Among the many windmills Jerry Yang tilted at in his brief career as Yahoo's CEO was his devotion to Web search. It veered on an obsession for him. It played into his decision to resist Microsoft's offers to shower him with cash, first for his whole company, then for just its search business. Is ... |
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Facebook Ads Not Dead YetFacebook's engagement ads have been getting a pretty bad rap of late. Introduced in August, the new social ads allow users to interact with advertisements and then share those actions with friends. Facebook is hoping that the new formats will help ring revenue out of the site's popularity, but re... |
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Xobni Puts the Social Web in Your Outlook InboxThose of you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail will be happy to know that the Xobni Outlook extension has been revamped with new integration tools for Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype and Hoovers. Xobni (that’s “inbox” backwards and it’s pronounced “zob-nee”) already integrated with th ... |
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Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (Twitter is Down)After working flawlessly through the heavy tweeting of the elections, Twitter is apparently having some uptime issues today. The site is rendering a “Currently down for database maintenance” image, which, seems a bit suspect given “database maintenance” sounds like something you’d plan in ... |

