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WebProNews FeedMultiple Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps is one popular guy.
Times of the Internet points out that (like many others these days) Phelps prefers Facebook to MySpace.
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In an earlier article about Apple's domination of the American Customer Service Index (ACSI), it was touched upon that the overall dissatisfaction with Windows Vista may have been a key factor in propelling Apple up the charts.
I have not seen a Taiwanese equivalent to the ACSI, but it is pretty evident that some people in Taiwan aren't real fond of Vista either.
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As charts tracking Facebook's growth have gone up and up, it's only natural that the company's employee count would do something similar. Now, in order to accommodate everyone, Facebook's taking over some offices in the Stanford Research Park.
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Local media sites have an advantage when it comes to producing results for advertisers, according to a new report by the Online Publishers Association (OPA).
The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television Websites, and are likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites.
Newspaper Web sites rank first, with 46 percent of consumers taking action, such as making a purchase, going to a store or conducting research after viewing a local ad, compared to 37 percent of consumers acting after viewing a local ad on a portal.
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Girls Gone Wild peddler and CEO of Mantra Films, Joe Francis, has filed a $300 million lawsuit against a federal judge alleging illegal imprisonment and backroom dealings with his former law partners. In conjunction with the lawsuit, Francis is pleading his case with the public at large via Web video, urging the public to write Congress to have Judge Richard Smoak removed from the bench.
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On opening night at the Search Engine Strategies Conference this week in San Jose, Kevin Ryan () spoke with Lee Siegal about his book, “Against the Machine”, and the ideas in it.
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The Dow's had a bad few months; it lost around 885 points between April and June. Another market's doing fine, though, as Nielsen's statistics indicate that YouTube and several competing video-sharing sites experienced impressive amounts of growth in the same period.
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Dell thought they could take the phrase "cloud computing" and keep it for themselves. It appears (for the time being at least) that they will have no such luck.
The company filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to trademark the term, but its request has ultimately been denied because it has been established as a generic term.
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With the first week of the 2008 Beijing Olympics completed, Nielsen Online has released a report on how fans around the globe used the Internet to follow the games.
Fans in 10 countries visited Beijing2008.cn, the official web site of Beijing games, at a rate of 930,000 per day, with traffic surpassing one million unique visitors on a number of days, as they searched for Olympic results, news and video.
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The search industry is changing, and Microsoft is keeping up with the times, according to Satya Nadella, the senior vice president of the company's Search, Portal & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella outlined both processes as today's keynote speaker at SES San Jose 2008.
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For a decade and a half the outbound link was a "hat tip," a courtesy or even system of content reimbursement; the "Web" is a web because of linking, each quality website helping to prop up another. It was actually kind of socialist in nature.
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Apple may have scored big in customer satisfaction with the American Customer Satisfaction Index, but that doesn't change the fact that customers haven't been so pleased with its MobileMe syncing service.
The service has been nothing but headaches for all parties involved since its launch. Problems ranged from email access and downtime to even syncing itself.
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Google is helping to set up an 8,000 square-foot headquarters for bloggers attending the Democratic convention in Denver next week and will provide similar services at the Republican convention in September.
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Unfortunately, I didn’t arrive in San Jose until after 6pm–so I missed all of day one. However, I did make it to the Internet Marketer’s Charity Party, which was a huge success.
I’ve posted a few photos from the event to my Flickr account. Here are a sample:
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Utility bills are always annoying, and as energy costs continue to rise, they'll become even worse. Google wants to combat this problem, though, and so Google.org has invested $10.25 million in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).
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