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Facebook Snatches User?s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook’s policies. His new Facebook URL is the much less memorable facebook.com/profile.php?id=538612932. Facebook then ...Read More »

Adding A Social Layer To Gmail Just Became A SocialWok In The Park

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based application was praised for launching a social network that wrapped around the ...Read More »

Bing, Google, And The Enigmatic T2: The Race For A Complete Semantic Search Engine

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Yesterday, Bing released a surprisingly useful new feature around recipe search. If you search for “Chicken,” you can narrow the results down by “chicken recipes” and then a whole bunch of new filtering options appear down the left-hand column. You ...Read More »

In India, Facebook Uses Google AdWords To Leapfrog Orkut

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Different territories demand different marketing approaches. Google, for instance, has been spotted taking the unusual route of promoting their search engine and Chrome browser with print advertising campaigns in India and The Netherlands, respectively. And now a reader informs us that ...Read More »

Sobees Launches Realtime Social Media Discovery Platform

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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There’s no shortage of real-time search engines that are tracking the web and social media sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook for results. Collecta, OneRiot, Microsoft’s Bing and Google all offer compelling search engines to tap into the real-time stream. ...Read More »

Google: Our focused approach paid off, ?we like the Chinese people?

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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While crowing about Google’s strong fourth quarter earnings during a conference call this afternoon, the search giant’s executives looked back on 2009 as a whole. While Google seemed to be elbowing its way into many new markets this year, Vice ...Read More »

Facebook shows off latest versions of its game and apps dashboards

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Facebook showed off a new version of its dashboards that are meant to give more attention to games and other apps on its social network. Today, it will give developers access to the new design so that they can start ...Read More »

Reach a Larger Audience with Content Translation Tools

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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For most developers, cross-browser testing is standard practice to ensure sites reach as many users as possible. But what about language translation? No matter which language you speak, foreign languages are spoken by over 60% of internet users. If a ...Read More »

OnLive gets a bad review from beta tester, confesses it can?t beat the speed of light

{ Posted on Jan 22 2010 by wang }

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OnLive, the ambitious games-on-demand service that is in beta testing now, went through a bit of a media tempest today. Blogger Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective managed to get a password to test the company’s games on demand service. And it ...Read More »

Want new apps for your Android or iPhone? Here are the best directories

{ Posted on Jan 22 2010 by wang }

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App discovery is a problem on smartphones. The way I find apps is from friends? recommendations. Sometimes I’ll peruse the list of top downloads or search for something that sounds useful. But sometimes I don?t know what I want, or ...Read More »

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