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Twitter And The Nine-Month Bounce

I’ve long suspected that the basic usage pattern for Twitter is that people try it, don’t get it or become discouraged because they don’t know anyone else on it, but it grows on them eventually until they start using it every day. Many people, of course, never come back, but for those who do, [...]

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Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Lady Gaga’s Viral Videos Pass One Billion Views

Soulja Boy’s Crank Dat might be the most-watched viral video of all time, with a collective 722 million views, but Lady Gaga just became the first artist to surpass one billion online video views across her three most popular videos: Poker Face (375 million views), Bad Romance (360 million views), and Just Dance (273 million [...]

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Wed, March 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Automates The Creation Of YouTube Overlay Ads

In its relentless push to turn YouTube into a profit center, Google is trying anything it can to pump more advertising into the billions of videos people watch on the site. Now it is automating the way that Flash overlay ads can be created and displayed on YouTube videos. Through the self-serve Display [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Messaging Security Company Cloudmark Raises $23 Million From Nokia, Others

Cloudmark, a provider of messaging security solutions, has scored a massive $23 million funding round led by new investor Summit Partners and joined by Nokia Growth Partners, the mobile giant’s venture capital investing arm.
Existing investors Ignition Partners and Industry Ventures also participated in the round, which is the first financing Cloudmark has closed since [...]

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Wed, March 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments