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Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews - Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...

The recruitment sector is the leader of advertising market with 25.7% share - The recruitment sector continued to lead the market with 25.7% market share, up 0.9 points on the second half of 2006, according to Internet Advertising Bureau. Second was automotive with 11.9%, while Technology (10.4%) overtook Finance (10%) for the first time to take third place. Other areas of growth were...

Stane or Ballmer? - Obadiah Stane description from the Iron Man website: "As ... a top executive in Stark Industries, Stane is a calculating genius who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done." From the people...

Top URLs in March 2008 - Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.6% 2. mail.yahoo.com 5% 3. www.myspace.com 4.5% 4. ww.yahoo.com 3.78% 5. mail.live.com 2.33% 6. www.ebay.com 1.98% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.63% 8. www.msn.com 1.24% 9....

What people do after seeing an ad with an URL - Consumer Activity 2007 2008 Point Change Visit a web site specified in the ad 29% 26% -3 Use search engine to find a website for the company 14% 22% 8 Visit the company website to find the name/phone number of a...

76% of young adults say they find Internet content targeted - 76.0% and 73.9% of the 18-24 year and 25-34 year segments, respectively, say online content is aimed at their age groups, according to Burst Media. Most (55.7%) of those age 35-44 also say so. 35.4% of those age 45-54 year say internet content is focused on people their age. The...

Turns out it's harder to be green when you have a lot of green - Turns out there's some truth to that phrase "filthy rich," at least when it comes to your environmental footprint. Web site TGDaily reports today about a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that proves (surprise, surprise) that your typical billionaire like tech titan Bill Gates...

Is Google locking up historical works? - Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...

Google Product Search gets a bit smarter - Google Product Search -- the latest name for the Google service that was originally called "Froogle" -- recently received another update that makes the service a lot more useful. Instead of simply indexing individual product listings from online stores, Google has now started grouping similar products together....

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Save on shipping online purchases - Ah, the bane of a Toybox reader's existence: online shipping costs. You've narrowed down which gadget you want to buy, you've found the most inexpensive vendor that's still trustworthy, you've put the item in your shopping cart and....wait, 12 bucks for shipping?! Highway murder!! ...

Google names new CIO - Google has named Benjamin Fried chief information officer. Fried, had been a managing director at Morgan Stanley's Application Infrastructure group. News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that Fried will take over in May. Fried replaces Douglas Merrill, who left earlier this month to go to EMI. ...

Ballmer: We don't need Yahoo and we aren't raising our bid - As expected, Microsoft launched its Yahoo counterattack on Wednesday as CEO Steve Ballmer said the company isn't raising its bid for the portal and would be just fine without a merger. Whether Ballmer is bluffing or not remains to be seen. Yahoo reported solid first quarter earnings...

Nalgene abandons BPA products - One suspicious plastic just lost a major supporter. Bispheonol-A BPA is suspected of having deleterious healty effects. Now Nalgene, the upscale sporting goods manufacturer says ti wil lno longer user plastics that contain BPA. Nalgene makes water bottles for atheletes, hikers, bikers, et al. ...

Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft - Yahoo is reportedly moving closer toward outsourcing search to Google in a move designed to gain leverage in any talks with Microsoft. Let's be clear: This story was leaked to the Wall Street Journal because Yahoo is likely to meet with Microsoft again soon. According to the...

Psystar: Hoax or fraud? - Update as I was writing this post: So I just talked to a woman who answered the phone at Psystar. She said the company would post a statement on the website regarding all the questions regarding the company by tonight or tomorow. I asked her if they were actually shipping...

Fastest-growing Web sites in France in February 2008 - Property Jan-08 Feb-08 Growth, YTY Total Internet : Total Audience 29,232 29,419 1% The Mozilla Organization 2,489 4,459 79% Francaise des Jeux 1,634 2,200 35% BNP Paribas 2,847 3,602 27% Lastminute.com Sites 1,697 2,107 24% ...

Digging into Psystar - [UPDATE 04/17/08 9:51am - Today there's a new announcement on the Psystar website and I link to in and include it here for completeness: "We're in the process of moving to a new location which is now listed on our contact page. The first new address posted...

Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time - In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet...

Fastest-growing Web sites in Germany in February 2008 - Property Jan-2007 Feb-2008 Growth, YTY Total Internet : Total Audience 33,904 33,814 0% The Mozilla Organization 4,205 8,046 91% KPN 2,453 4,341 77% Axel Springer AG 6,517 9,484 46% Amadeus Global Travel Distribution 2,633 3,438 31% ...

60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization - Nearly 60% of Americans questioned in a Harris Interactive poll said they were uneasy when Web sites use information about personal online activity to tailor advertisements or content. by AM

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