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Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet

There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook’s product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That’s because they’re already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers, and once two people know a secret, it isn’t really a secret any more.
One of the new features [...]

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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

OneRiot Rolls Out Realtime Ad Unit That Refreshes To Match Trending Topics

Last year, OneRiot ventured into the advertising world with RiotWise, an ad format which places content in an emphasized position in their realtime feed. The search engine also launched a pilot program of RiotWise Trending Ads, a stream of ads that correspond to trending topics as they emerge across the social web, that has since [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What?

Oh the Associated Press, our most favorite banned new source. It seems almost monthly they do something that defies logic and/or looks to be a suicidal act. And today brings another oddity.
The AP is using their Twitter feed to tweet out their stories — nothing new there, obviously — but every single one of them [...]

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Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Aardvark Continues Running At Full Steam After Google Acquisition, Joins Google Labs

Yesterday we broke the news that Aardvark, the social search engine, was being acquired by Google for $50 million. Aardvark confirmed the acquisition to us yesterday (though they didn’t comment on the amount), and now Google and Aardvark have publicly announced the deal with posts to their official blogs, along with some more details [...]

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Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments