Real Time Search – The Twitter Model
Think back, way back. Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search? How time flies. Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is ...
Google’s Open Social Platform
Google has announced the launch of the “Open Social” application initaitive which will allow developers to write application that can work across various social networking ...
Google My World – Another Second Life?
Google is reportedly building an avatar-based, Google Earth mashup, a virtual reality designed to compete against the likes of secondlife.com. The rumoured name for this new virtual ...
Bebo & Yahoo! announce strategic partnership
Yahoo! and Bebo, the UK’s largest social network, have forged an exclusive strategic partnership. As a result, Yahoo! will sell the majority of Bebo’s display advertising ...
Facebook Makes Profiles Public
In another controversial move, Facebook has decided to make its members’ profiles public, meaning that search engines are now free to index the site and list the millions of profiles ...
YouTube’s New In-Video Ad Format
Google announced today that it will be launching a new “in-video” ad format on its sister site YouTube. The new ad format is supposed to be 10 times more effective than ...
Digg Dumps Google Ads for MSN
Social networking site Digg has dropped Google Ads on its site for rival Microsoft AdCenter. The details of the deal were not disclosed as both companies declined to comment.
Digg ...
Facebook Lawsuit – Stolen Idea?
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea and source code behind the internet phenomena that is Facebook.
The lawsuit was brought about 3 years ago by 3 of ...
MySpace to Rival YouTube
MySpace has announced that it will upgrade the video service it currently has offers on its site. The upgrade will include a move to a seperate domain (MySpaceTV). The new site ...
YouTube in 9 New Markets
During the recent Google press event in Paris, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announced the launch of YouTube in 9 new markets/languages, these include Brazil, France, ...
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