Amazon is outsourcing more of its Web-scale software. Yesterday, it beefed up its payment services with the launch of Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. Other e-commerce sites can basically insert an Amazon Checkout cart on their sites and Amazon’s software will handle one-click ordering for anyone with an existing amazon account, [...]
Web 2.0 Adoption and IssuesCIO Insight, IL -1 hour agoA McKinsey report (PDF here) entitled "Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise" says companies are picking up the pace in terms of adopting 2.0 tools for a variety …
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Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous TrollsSlashdot -55 minutes agoThe article notes that "the Jane Doe plaintiffs contend that the postings about them became etched into the first page of search engine results on their …
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It may have an awful logo, but Zorap, a video conference and media sharing startup, has developed a browser plugin that makes sharing movies and pictures both simple and surprisingly fun. The Windows-only plugin is currently working on Ning and MySpace, with support for more social networks (and Macs) coming soon. If you’d [...]
How To Get New Web Sites To Rank QuicklySearch Engine Land, CT -8 hours ago… trying to promote a quality non-commercial topic that is linkworthy you can often get visitors from search and AdSense ads for less than 25 cents each. …
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Social Media In The Military: Insight Into The Future of Social…ReadWriteWeb, CA -3 hours agoiLink, a social network analytics technology from SRI International has recently been integrated into three online communities used by the military: Platoon …
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The Dawn of Visual NetworkingPC Magazine -1 hour agoVideo certainly makes social networks more personal. Up to now, most of the content on these sites has been interesting but boring. Yes, posting pictures to …
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Brian Solis / TechCrunch:SEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as Public Disclosure. Can We Now Kill the Press Release? — For several years, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has lobbied the SEC to allow disclosure of financial information through corporate blogs. In a landmark announcement, it seems that Mr. Schwartz …
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TheStreet.com Q2 2008 Earnings Call TranscriptSeeking Alpha, NY -1 hour agoIn terms of the cash on the balance sheet, what gets the deal engine fired up at a faster pace? Valuation. Right now, I think you can look at – look, …
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BBC:Google Street View gets go ahead — Google’s controversial Street View photo-mapping tool has been given the all clear by the UK’s privacy watchdog. — The system takes pictures of streets and adds them to online maps to let people see what locations look like.
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Stephen Hood / delicious blog:Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here — Over the past few days we’ve been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we’re taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
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It was only a matter of time. Cuil, the “massive” new search engine that was supposed to be able to keep up with Google, has just gotten its first knockoff. It’s Yuil, a Yahoo-powered mashup that looks almost exactly like Cuil. And, oddly enough, Yuil might actually work better than its much-hyped [...]
McKinsey report: Enterprise Web 2.0 adoption still growingNetworkWorld.com, MA -5 hours agoThe adoption by those companies of most Web 2.0 technologies has risen since the poll was conducted for the first time last year, according to the report. …
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Monster Misses Q2 Sales, Buys Job Search Engine Trovix For $72.5 …Silicon Alley Insider, NY -35 minutes agoMonster (MNST) announced it's spending $72.5 million for job search engine Trovix, which the company says will improve its search capabilities. …
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Big kudos to Brad Leclerc and Viki Babbles for their ongoing success with Vinecast. They just got a shout out from Amber Mac and Leo Laporte on their Net@Nite podcast.
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