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Ireland gets a fancy slide show Google Doodle celebrating famed film maker Francois Truffaut. For those unaware, Francois Truffaut was one of the founders of the French New Wave movement. He made classic films such as Les Quatre Cents Coups …

Funny or Die Celebrates Twitter’s 5th Year Anniversary

It’s hard to imagine we’ve had Twitter for only five years. The social networking platform has certainly changed the way we communicate, specifically the speed of communication. While it has advanced so much, it also has been chided as being …

“Weblog” Term Celebrates Tenth Birthday

It’s sometimes hard to believe how quickly things move; it was only ten years ago that a certain word was coined, and yet some people now use an abbreviated form of it a dozen (or more) times a day.  The word, of course, is "weblog."

FCC Gets Monkey’s Paw From Telco Front Group

You might say it’s a sort of monkey’s paw that Hands Off the Internet, an AT&T-backed "grass roots" organization has called on the FCC to investigate Comcast for violating the four principles of Network Neutrality. On the surface, it looks like progress. But can it be trusted?

Google Turns Nine(-ish)

Some people refuse to accept that they’re aging.  Google’s okay with the idea; it just refuses to age at a reliable rate.  But the search giant has decided that today, September 27th, is its ninth birthday.

Fred Thompson’s Webmaster Doesn’t Know Dmoz
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The potential Presidential candidate’s campaign doesn’t know why a Google listing for his official website has a description they didn’t write. We know what happened.

Sponsorships Work Better Than AdSense
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One blogger found that a trio of potential revenue streams simply did not work for him; he did credit paid sponsor ads for their help.

Flickr Readies 333 Birthday Party

The photo community site has a party planned for Saturday, March 3rd, in San Francisco to celebrate Flickr’s third birthday.

Opera Mini Has A Ninjarific Birthday
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The adoption of web browsing on mobile devices has helped Opera Mini enjoy a successful first year in and out of the pockets of people around the world.

Yahoo, AT&T Mark Five Years Together

Internet companies are usually pretty forward-thinking; this comes, I suppose, with the territory. Yahoo made a strange move today, however, by celebrating an event that’s well in the past – its five-year-old “groundbreaking alliance” with AT&T.

JobsInSearch Turns Two!!

Congratulations to Mike Taylor as JobsInSearch.com celebrates its second birthday this week, having launched two years ago as the first specialist international job site covering Search Engine Marketing related jobs and careers.

Schachter “Totally Thrilled” With Delicious

The social bookmarking site recently passed one million registered users, just ahead of its third birthday. Joshua Schachter isn’t settling for a slice of Delicious birthday cake; he’s got plans for the site that will go deeper than the Popular list. Much deeper.

Google Earth Birthday Present: Resolution Increase

Google Earth celebrates its first anniversary and announces increased resolution and global coverage.

Google Stops Reporting Count, Celebrates Birthday

Kudos to Google for removing the index size count from its search engine. I hope MSN does this too.

Google Turns Seven

As the Google Blog says, it was seven years ago that Google began operating out of Susan Wojcicki’s spare room.

Parents, Stripper Sentenced; Birthday Boy Gets Off

A Nashville couple was sentenced to two years probation after a stripper “took their son’s picture” at his 16th birthday party. The euphemism, “took his picture,” may only be known by a few, and I’m not talking.

Google Celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright’s Birthday

Google has a tradition for celebrating particular calendar events of note. Whenever there is an important date the search engine wants to acknowledge, they do so by altering the main Google logo to fit the occasion.

Happy Birthday Hubble

For millennia, people were wowed enough by a clear night sky-a black and blue backdrop peppered with pinpoint lights. It was the splendor of space that drove myth and imagination, dreams of galactic giants molding the cosmos, the sheer wonder of what was out there.

Hubba Hubba Hubble: Its Your Birthday

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 15th year of service to the world this week as exhibits all over the country are unveiled to celebrate this device’s contributions to man’s understanding of the universe.

Weird? Baskin Robbins Celebrates Yahoo!’s 10th Birthday…

Yahoo!’s 10th birthday is today. To celebrate, they’re giving away… a scoop of ice cream, courtesy of Baskin Robbins.

Happy Birthday! Apple Computer founded 27 years ago today

Today in 1976, on April 1st, Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer Incorporated.