Facebook To Answer Questions

Posted on September 4, 2010
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Q&A once again seems to be the in fashion. Following hot on the heels of Ask.com’s announcement about their return to the question and answers format, Facebook has launched a new feature called Facebook Questions in beta. facebook.com/questions Facebook Questions will allow users to ask questions on any topic, to the entire Facebook community, as [...]

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Microsoft, Yahoo! Allow Users To Choose Ads

Posted on September 2, 2010
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Internet users often have to wait through pre-roll ads or look past overlay ads when they want to watch online video. This can be quite irritating to some users. Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly thinking of ways to make this less of an irritation. One of the reasons for the irritation is the fact that [...]

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Earnings Reports Reveal Rebound In U.S. Advertising

Posted on August 30, 2010
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Reports of the quarterly earnings of various companies during the second quarter of 2010 have recently been published. These reports indicate an overall recovery in ad-generated revenue in most of the Internet, media and advertising companies. Google is reported to have said that during the second quarter of the year, marketers were more likely to [...]

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Android Money Comes From Google Mobile Ads

Posted on August 29, 2010
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The Android operating system may not be vital to the Google search engine, but Google makes a killing from the ads sold through the Android operating system. These sentiments were expressed by Google’s Chief Financial Officer, Patrick Pichette recently, while replying to a question from a financial analyst during the company’s second quarter earnings call [...]

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Twitter Confirms Realtime Analytics

Posted on August 28, 2010
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Twitter has just confirmed on their engineering blog that they are using the realtime analytics system Cassandra. For some time now, it had been indicated that Twitter would change their system for storage of tweets from the current MySQL system to Cassandra. However, they have now made it clear that they will continue to store [...]

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Japan Tests Billboards That Know Your Age, Gender

Posted on August 26, 2010
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Marketing agencies in Japan are taking technology one huge step further. They are testing billboards which can tell the sex and age of the person standing in front of it. It had been reported about a year ago that billboards that could tell whether the face in front of it was male or female were [...]

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Facebook Overtaking Orkut In India

Posted on August 25, 2010
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A few days ago, comScore released a report that shows that Facebook is fast catching up with Orkut in India and Brazil. Orkut which is owned by Google, is way behind Facebook as a social network on a worldwide scale. But in India and Brazil Orkut has so far been the dominant social network. However, [...]

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Facebook Follows Twitter To Location Awareness

Posted on August 24, 2010
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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that location-based features will be launched on the social network in the near future. The confirmation came during a Facebook Developers Garage event in London. Zuckerberg said, “We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon.” Ever since Twitter talked about delivering location-based services, there [...]

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Mobile Web Expanding In Africa

Posted on August 23, 2010
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A recently released report by Opera focuses on the use of the mobile Web in Africa. The report shows that the use of the mobile Web is not just growing fast. The growth rate is well over 100% in terms of parameters such as page views, unique users and data transfer. While the report shows [...]

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Social Media Sites Not Regarded Highly

Posted on August 22, 2010
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Foresee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index, have recently conducted a study to find out how customers in the U.S. feel about various social media sites. The ACSI has been conducting yearly studies about the performance of various online media brands of portals, search engines, news and information sites etc. This year for the [...]

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