AOL Acquires Lifestreaming Service Socialthing (14)
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In a move that aims at shoring up AOL’s stable of social networks, the company announced today that it has acquired Socialthing!, pending the satisfaction of certain undisclosed closing conditions. After the acquisition closes, AOL says that Socialthing will become a part of the company’s People Networks division. Currently, AOL’s People Networks division is made up of social platforms, like Bebo, AIM, ICQ, Goowy, and Yedda, that AOL believes, will lead the company’s online presence ...
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Joe said:
aol, would you just die already!
Exclusive: A Look at Google Ad Planner Data Vs. Comscore (13)
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When Google Ad Planner came out back in June, I immediately thought of Comscore - and I was not alone. Many in the marketing industry thought that Google's product would be a "Comscore killer," and when I noted as much in my coverage, Gian Fulgoni, Comscore's chair, shot back in a comment to my post: Hi John: Before celebrating the availability of these products from Google, I think it would be prudent for web site ...
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Derek said:
one of the better articles I have read in awhile. A must read for Googlers
Apple Considers Streaming Media from iTunes to iPhone (16)
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AppleInsider has posted details about a patent recently filed by Apple that describes technology for playing iTunes content from a desktop computer remotely on an iPhone or iPod touch. The new software would load only meta data about songs, videos, and other media onto a handheld device. It would then allow users to stream this media from their desktop computers on demand and even let them organize their iTunes libraries remotely (by adding, deleting, and ...
Going Offline: 5 Books on Corporate Social Media (32)
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There’s one month left of Summer, and whether you spend these dwindling days basking on the beach or languishing at the office, sometimes you just need to unplug for a few hours. So if you want to spend your spare time boning up on the blogosphere, you’re in luck. There are a bunch of books that can help improve your thinking about the value of social media to the enterprise. With that in mind, here’s ...
Some Mashups Harnessing The Power Of Yahoo’s BOSS (15)
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Yahoo’s Search Blog has posted a list of some of the most promising new web apps being built using its BOSS search platform. BOSS is a radically open API that launched last month that allows developers to utilize much of Yahoo’s core search data without the restrictions seen on most other search APIs. 4HourSearch - A week ago Yahoo VP of Platforms Sam Pullara released Yuil, a search engine that looked nearly exactly like recently ...
AdCamo Relaunches as Platform for Background Image Advertising (5)
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AdCamo, the service for advertising in the background of web pages, is re-launching today as a platform for web sites and ad networks that want to offer the format to their clients. For publishers, this means if you want to sell background advertising, you can use AdCamo to manage campaigns and serve inventory. For ad networks and agencies, there is an API so the AdCamo platform can be integrated into your own systems and software. ...
Google’s Ad Network, Now With Double the Cookies (9)
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As part of the ongoing integration of its DoubleClick acquisition (yesterday it sold off Performics), Google will be placing an additional DoubleClick cookie on the browsers of everyone who visits a site that is part of Google’s current AdSense network. This will allow Google to serve up display ads from DoubleClick across that network of sites. It will also allow it to introduce some basic improvements such as frequency capping (letting advertisers limit how many ...
10 Cane Run Extends Ad Conference Haze (1)
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Like a mashup of country club elitism and Rastafarian grooviness, these new videos from 10 Cane rum are delightfully intoxicating and elicit a blurry, drug-addled fogginess.
See What Facebook Connect Looks Like (31)
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On Monday, Facebook released a sample site that demonstrates how Facebook Connect (previous coverage), their new authentication methodology for logging into third-party web sites, will work. On the demo site, instead of registering for an account, you're presented with an option to use Facebook Connect instead. The Facebook team built the site so developers interested in using this technology could see how it works. The source code was provided as well. The sample site is ...
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Pierre said:
I like this a lot more than OpenID...
Mashups: Firefox May Go OAuth, Twitter Apps To Stop Asking for Your Password (46)
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You can do a lot with new software if you tell it a little bit about yourself - but who wants to give the new kid on the block the password to their most important communication tools? Unfortunately that's what we're asked to do with a lot of new applications these days. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Standards based user authentication protocols, and one called OAuth in particular, allow applications to send ...
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KevM said:
OAuth will be a great boon to composite applications.
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Danilo said:
Really awesome news! I like how Firefox is moving to support more open standards, THAT is innovation.
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Richard said:
Finally Twitter see the light
Seth's Blog: "I call dregs" (12)
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Bert was happy to eat the leftover rice from the rice cooker, but he didn't want to grab something that someone else on the team needed. So he said, "I call last dibs." Dibs, of course, is a priority, your chance to get ahead of someone else in line. Megan pointed out that last dibs was sort of an oxymoron, so she coined the term 'dregs.' Calling "dregs" is actually a great marketing strategy. It ...
WordPress application for iPhone launches (8)
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As someone who blogs for a living, I am beyond pumped about this application. Being able to blog on the go is a must. A huge chunk of the time, news breaks at the most inopportune moment. News never breaks while you’re sitting around idly at the computer. It breaks while you’re on the train, or at the grocery store. By the time you’re online, you’re the 53rd blog to cover it, and no one ...
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million" (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (11)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” — Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property.
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Sherman said:
noooo way... google makes the stupidest acquisitions..
