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Jim Henson Muppets Google Doodle Lets You Become the Puppeteer
Google and The Jim Henson Company have collaborated to honor the 75th birthday of the late Jim Henson. An interactive Google Doodle on Google’s…
Mesh & the Tyranny of Size: How Mesh Might Change Second Life Culture
While other ongoing stories are still… ongoing, four weeks ago the much awaited release of Mesh to the full Second Life grid happened.…
Hulu Buries YouTube With 4x More Ad Views – Are Advertisers Afraid of YouTube?
Hulu, which comScore ranked No. 9 in August for unique viewers, also ranked No. 1 with 996 million video ad impressions. But YouTube.com, which…
Google Offers Bounces Back, On Pace to Double Revenue This Month
Aided by higher revenue per deal and increased voucher sales, Google has already surpassed its August revenue and could double it by the end…
Yahoo Launches Social News App Outside of Facebook Platform
Yahoo users opted in to the new app will see the profile pictures of Facebook and Yahoo contacts displayed across the top of every…
Google’s Boutiques.com Falls Out of Fashion
Google’s foray into the fashion world isn’t ending, but Boutiques.com and other Like.com properties will cease to exist as of October 14. Google is…
Interflora Ruling: Trademark Bidding is Fair Game in UK
A ruling has been made on the Interflora trademark case in the UK. The ruling could impact the restrictions on bidding for trademarked terms…
Twitter Buys Julpan, Former Google Engineer Ori Allon’s Company
Twitter has picked up year-old startup Julpan. This service will help Twitter surface relevant results in the stream. Equally important, though, is the acquisition…
WordPress Sucks: Impress Search Engines With These Alternatives
WordPress is vulnerable, hackable, expoitable, and the spammers choice for mass site deployment. Here’s a short list of “CMS” or “blog” like systems that…
Local Deals: The Platypus of the Post PC Era
Is the deals space imploding? Evidence of an impending fatality has been over exaggerated and in some cases misreported. The daily deals space will…
Facebook F8 Wrapup: Timeline, Ticker, GraphRank for Users & Marketers
The third major evolution of Facebook was unveiled at today’s f8 conference. Facebook will be reborn as the place you curate your entire life…
Web Liquid Test Drives 5 Top Social Media Monitoring Tools
Web Liquid’s Social Media Monitoring Tool Buyer’s Guide is more than a laundry list of tools; see what they found during in-depth testing and…
Bing Introduces Action Buttons to Search Results
Bing has released Action Buttons for searches of seven popular categories: airlines, couriers, restaurants, banks, rental cars, software downloads and hotels. Bing will show…
Microsoft’s Plan to Stop Losing Money on Bing
At the Microsoft financial analyst meeting this month, Microsoft’s Qi Lu presented an argument for how Bing would become profitable – over the course…
The 4 Ps of Search Engine Optimization
If there is any one reality to SEO, it’s that there are winners and losers. There are certain qualities that are necessary for any…
Rock the Vote: A Petition to Bring Back Google Sets
While some of Google’s recently discontinued products will live on within other projects, Google Sets wasn’t so lucky. Here are just a few examples…
What Might Google+ Improvements Mean for Marketers?
It’s been about 90 days since the Google+ project began and the proud parents of the bundle of joy are still oooh-ing and awww-ing…
Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins
This week the two-and-a-half-year-old foursquare has hit another stellar benchmark: a billion check-ins. The continuous surge in the service’s popularity combines with recent business…
Mobile Landing Page Quality Now Affects AdWords Quality Score On Mobile Ads
Google has announced that mobile landing page quality will soon be a factor in quality score for mobile ads. Who benefits and why should…
Mark Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Larry Page & Sergey Brin on Forbes 400
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rocketed past Google CEO Larry Page and co-founder Sergey Brin on the 2011 installment of the Forbes 400, the 30th…