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Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience.In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offe (Read More)
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As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings.As such (Read More)
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Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for “That Morning Show” on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com.A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current econo (Read More)
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Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.Unsure about mixing your iPhone with wine? Well, if you’re a tru (Read More)
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Scammy, deceptive ads have been in the hotseat this week, as earlier MySpace and now Facebook have made commitments to track down and eradicate misleading offers and survey-related ad scams. Social gaming applications in particular are being targeted for permitting certain types of scammy ads, that typically persuade users (Read More)
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XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients.Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for y (Read More)
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This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most businesses fail after the first few years, and even if you do manage to survive, that doesn’t mean your busi (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Everlater has secured an undisclosed Series A round of funding led by Highway 12 Ventures, to help the startup “expand its development, marketing and sales efforts”. Terms of the financing were not disclosed, but Highway 12 Ventures’ Managing Partner Mark Solon informs us that it was an initial seed round of less than $1 mi (Read More)
BBC:
How much do you know about all the data you have stored out there on the web? And how much control do you have over it? Questions prompted by Google's latest move to deal with concerns about privacy.The search company has today launched its Dashboard, which it says will allow users to view and control all the data associate (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Bulgaria] One of the biggest problems Internet users face everyday is how difficult it has become to follow news streams from many different sources without getting lost in the noise — from the online sites of mainstream media, to the millions of blogs, YouTube and other social media such as Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitte (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
After looking pretty much the same for almost a decade, one of the top three internet starting points is finally getting a facelift. MSN is debuting its new look, which you can preview here, and Bing is playing a central role in the overhaul - though it won't always be so obvious to the user.MSN will be relying on structure (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
During the past seven weeks, I've shared seven compelling reasons for going to either Search Engine Strategies Berlin or SES Chicago 2009. For those of you who want to join in the chorus, they are "seven tracks amazing, six booths astounding, five brand new things, four keynote themes, three key trends, two early birds, and (Read More)
TechCrunch:
SwingVine, a site that lets you see what content is trending on the web, is adding real-time functionality. SwingVine aggregates data and news from across the web, analyzes the volume of online buzz and the reputation of various sources, evaluates user interactions on the site itself, and other information to surface the t (Read More)
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The extensive collection of exclusive content and marketing we’ve seen on MySpace for the new Twilight movie – New Moon – seems to be exactly what the company has in mind with its new direction as an entertainment portal. Last month, the site was first to offer up free streaming of the soundtrack to the movie, and today, (Read More)
BBC:
Remember the price war that was supposed to break out once O2 lost its exclusive contract to sell the iPhone in Britain? Well, the price plans that Orange has published for the phone show little sign of an eagerness for hand-to-hand combat. Apart from an entry-level £30 tariff which promises twice as many minutes as O2's de (Read More)