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Entries from December 2007

Startup encourages phone applications (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

A Mountain View, Calif., company is launching a platform designed to let developers create telephony applications they can embed in Web pages and existing Web-based services.
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Startup Unveils Tools to Build Phone Apps Across Plaforms (PC World via Yahoo! News)

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Ribbit developers design programs to record, track, or make calls, integrated with sites or other apps.
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Live streaming of The Squadcast taping day

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

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We’re hard at work again on new episodes of The Squadcast. That’s right, we’re giving up our Saturday to crank out fresh and fantastic content for your consumption.
We’ll be interviewing Amber Rhea of the Georgia Podcaster Network around 1pm Eastern to find out how to become a podcaster. Then, at 2:30 Eastern, we’ll [...]

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Where is Windows Mobile headed?

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Mobile Minute
Windows Mobile may have trounced PalmOS pretty completely over the last few years, but if the mobile operating system wants to maintain its market share, it’s going to need to make some changes. For example, iPhone has raised the bar for mobile web browsing while the Windows [...]

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Online Holiday Spending Tops $18 Billion

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Forget about Cyber Monday; December 6th easily topped the online sales of the Monday after Thanksgiving, as US consumers spent $803 million on the first Thursday in December.
Non-travel retail spending online for the period of November 1 through December 7 rose 18 percent compared to the same period in 2006.
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Open Web Awards: Places and Events

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Filed under: Internet, Social Software, web 2.0
What are you doing tonight? No seriously, we were thinking we’d come over, open up a bottle of merlot, maybe order some pizza? Oh right, you’re way too busy for that, because you’ve got such a full social calendar. Right, guess we’ll just stay home and wash our hair.
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Startup has the future at its fingertips

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

This may just be the end of the keyboard and mouse for laptop computers, with the technology developed by the Kfar Sava-startup N-trig, which enables operation of a computer with a special pen and finge=r touch.
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Zuckerberg Lives, Is Sorry For Beacon

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally come out from hiding after the two-week privacy donnybrook that ensued over the company’s marketing program Beacon. Zuckerberg posted his response on the Facebook blog. In short, he’s sorry.
“We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it,” he writes.
Acknowledging that Facebook “missed the right [...]

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The Paid Link Stages Of Grief

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Let the bargaining begin. It’s a natural stage of mourning. As Google shuffles loose the paid links from its algorithms, SEOs are cycling past their initial denial, their outrage, and have begun negotiating. Stay tuned; depression and acceptance are likely to follow.
On his blog this morning, SEOMoz.org’s Rand Fishkin gave a sneak peak at the [...]

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Facebook Loses Advertisers As Concerns Deepen

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Things just keep looking worse for Facebook’s Beacon: Coca-Cola and other advertisers are opting out of the program; there may be legal troubles ahead; and some investigative security work shows that Beacon sends information about user activity even when logged out of Facebook.
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