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What’s Serendipity?
When you find a “story you wouldn’t have normally read,” that’s called serendipity in the newspaper world. Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Fry explained that serendipity is…
Stephen Colbert to launch IntegrityJustice.com blog
Okay, I admit that I’m posting this one for my kids: David Silverberg of Digital Journal reports that “Stephen Colbert, the tycoon…
Wikio, a European social bookmarking site, receives funding
E-consultancy reports that Wikio, a European social bookmarking site, has received almost £2.7 million in a Series A round of funding. Wikio…
Fingerprinting Videos, Music May Help Stop Piracy
2006 was a good year for Advestigo, a French company that helps guard digital assets – winning a number of prestigious awards…
WhitePages.com Expands People Search
Expanding further from its phone directory roots, WhitePages.com has added third-party results from Web search, public records, and professional profiles, and a…
Searchles releases social media’s first push-me/pull-me widget
Searchles today released a fully integrated widget that keeps web traffic where it should be – on your site. It is the…
Online newspaper blog traffic grows 210%
According to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than…
Dell Says Buy A Computer And We Plant A Tree
Dell CEO Michael Dell used the CES event in Las Vegas last week to announce his company’s new “Plant A Tree For…
Social Features Key to Yahoo Local
Yahoo has recently been putting more of an emphasis on social media and user-generated content in its local search product.
Toyota Gives Owners MySpace Like Blogs
The continuing growth of social media has influenced another market. Toyota has helped create a MySpace like program for their hybrid users…
New Social Search Engine Targets Boomers
Eons, a social network for the over-50 crowd launched last year by Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor, has launched a new Web search…
FeedBurner launches initial release of site statistics
FeedBurner’s site statistics are now live. Their architecture conversion work after the BlogBeat acquisition is complete, and their free StandardStats service now…
NewsTrust: A Social Networking News Review
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal (who awarded us first place for Search News Blog of 2006) outlines how NewsTrust plans…
Time.com to launch new design and blog
Richard Stengel, Time magazine’s managing editor, has posted a letter to readers entitled “A Changing Time.” It marks the first time that…
Placeblogger: Searchable Directory for Local News Blogs
Yesterday, Placeblooger.com launched its searchable index of local blogs, placeblogs. The local blogs in this hand-assembled directory are more than just local…
Ad Age Digital’s Media Morph looks at blog tags
Abbey Klaassen of Ad Age Digital’s Media Morph takes a look today at blog tags. While it has been called a “game…
Google Upgrades Blogger With Privacy Features & More
Now you can restrict reader access to your blog, with new privacy settings to allow you to create a ‘subscriber list’ of…
Wall Street Journal getting comfortable with blogs
Mark Glaser, who writes the PBS MediaShift column, says “the Journal has found subjects that work as blogs, and they’ve figured out…
Visits by college students to MySpace power its lead in page views
comScore Networks has released a study that analyzes the impact of visits from university locations to the top two Web properties, Fox…
Flogs: fake blogs that pose as a consumer creation
Search marketers know all about splogs — spam blogs. Well, there’s a new term to add to our growing glossary of terms.…
SimplyHeadlines.com emerges from “stealth mode”
SimplyHeadlines, which calls itself “the Newspaper for the Extremely Busy,” emerged from stealth mode earlier this month with the launch of Version…
Digg extends its reach beyond news
Oliver Luft of journalism.co.uk reports that Digg has “spread its reach beyond news stories to begin rating and aggregating podcasts.” Digg, which…
Kevin Rose Launches New Look For Digg Homepage
Digg just had a remodel. As Kevin Rose describes in his blog today, the site no longer uses fixed widths, while prominent…
SEOmoz Does Cartoon of SES Chicago
The creative team over at SEOmoz have published a great comic recap of Chicago SES. Capturing with cartoon irreverence many of the…
Wikia to Offer Free Web Hosting
Wikia, the for-profit company set up in 2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikia will be launching a free…
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