Monthly Archives: November 2010

Facebook and Google Update

If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest tactics of Facebook and Google, here’s an update: Facebook has removed all mention of Google’s Gmail service from its “Find your Friends” feature. If you want to find friends from Skype,…

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What are Myspace and Facebook Up To

What is your guess, what are Myspace and Facebook up to? Today the social media giants of Facebook and Myspace are making joint announcement, but it can only be speculated what it could be about. Mashable.com, who received a personal…

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Facebook Announces Email Killer

Facebook announced today a new way to communicate in real time. The new system brings together text and email, and Mark Zuckerburg hopes to bring together all the forms of communication into one central location–your facebook page. It all started…

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Google Can Index Flash Files

Do you remember when all the “cool” websites were done in Flash? Do you remember when all makers of those “cool” websites realized that search engines can’t read Flash websites and therefore no one would ever see their work? Sad…

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A Tribute to Ask.com

After about 14 years in the search engine market Ask.com is finally throwing in the towel. The company previously known as “Ask Jeeves” until February 27, 2006 was considered one of the search engine giants soon after its inception in…

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Search Engine Wars: News from both Google and Bing

Okay, so the Bing news is old news, but it is interesting to compare the apparent strategies between the two big Search Giants. And nobody bring up Yahoo! Search. They’ve lost it essentially. Let’s admit that. Okay, onto the news:…

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Google’s New Search Results

Oh my goodness! They’ve done it again. Google has changed up their search results this time combining giving more priority to local search. Local search results have been combined with organic results for a while now, but it looked more…

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Google Maps Founder and AdMob CEO Leave Company

Google Maps Co-Founder, Lars Rasmussen, and AdMob CEO, Omar Hamoui left Google today. Rasmussen is leaving Google to work for Facebook. He says he’s excited to work for a smaller company of only 2,000 employees instead of roughly 25,000 employees….

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Can A Facebook Page Really Make A Difference For Your Business?

Normally addictions are a bad thing, but when it comes to Facebook this is good news to a business owner. Having a presence on Facebook exposes your business to the millions of Facebook addicts – for FREE! Why wouldn’t you…

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Social Media Predicting the Elections?

The power of Social media is showing its face in politics. Facebook says that page popularity was a good predictor of election night victory. On the U.S. Politics on Facebook Page, the company says: “The Facebook political team’s initial snapshot…

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