It’s always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co. as a private joke about the messy start to that unlikely company (I was right there mocking Hulu with them, but later gave them their due [...]

News Flash: More people get their news from the Net than from newspapers. While this will hardly count as news to most of our readers, the Pew Research Center seems surprised by the shift. In a survey of 1,489 adults in the U.S. conducted in early December, 40 percent said they get most of [...]

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Every geek
Down in Geek-ville
Liked searching a lot …
But Bill Gates,
Who lived just north [...]

The 140 million dollars that Google dished out for Russian contextual ad company Begun now seems rather cheap, given their fantastic financial results for the first half of 2008.
As reported by Profy, Begun has had 25% higher profits in the first two quarters of 2008 than in the entire 2007. Add to that the [...]

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According to the latest government data, China now has 253 million Internet users, due to recent sharp growth - 56 percent from last year. The inevitable has happened: China now has more Internet users than the USA, which is at 223.1 million with 71% online penetration. The fact that the Chinese government is exercising very [...]

I know there’s a good portion of you that are going to instantly groan at the headline, either because it’s a territory that’s been hashed out a number of times from a number of different angles or because you’re one of those folks who simply doesn’t believe there are such thing as “killer” technology (I’ve [...]

Last week, when Google Chrome came out of beta, many of you wondered what the rush was, given the lack of support for extensions, not to mention the absence of a Mac version of the Web browser.
Today, it looks like at least one other common request – auto-discovery of RSS feeds – is [...]

Market research firm eMarketer has cut yet another ad spending estimate for 2009, and this time it’s social networks. The social-network advertising industry is now pegged at $1.3 billion next year, down from $1.8 billion. For 2008, it’s been lowered to $1.2 billion from $1….

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Twittad a growing startup company which opening another one way of advertising to your twitter accounts. It’s not like as Be A Magpie but it’s advertising just in background of your twitter accounts.
Every user has the power to re-design their twitter account’s background or to use default anyone one. When you signup as publisher on [...]