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Twitter Updating Main Page To Better Show The Purpose Of The Platform

Let’s try something a little different as the focus goes to Twitter (yet again) and its impact on the free world’s ability to function properly. I have said on many occasions that regular users of Twitter are not the best people to be actually examining Twitter’s success or lack thereof. Why? Mainly because there seems to be this assumption that the rest of the world understands what Twitter is as well as social media ‘regulars’ do. The simple reality is that that kind of thinking is, how can I say this diplomatically….. stupid.

YouTube Has More Expenses Than Revenue

First, the good news. YouTube is the most popular video site on the Internet. They’ill make $240 million in revenue. They just signed a deal with Disney to help bring in that money.

Twitter's Ad Platform Shows Some Savvy

So why the quotation marks around the word ads in the title? It’s like that age old question of if a tree falls in the forest but there is no one there to hear it does it make a sound? This version however reads like, “If you place and “ad” on a website and nobody paid for it is it an “ad”?

MySpace, 'My Ads' Program Is Launched

 

Six Apart Clicks With Adify

Six Apart CEO Chris Alden and Adify CEO Russ Fradin told WebProNews they plan to bring bloggers and ads together more effectively.

Google Android Had Some Glitches

The Google Android SDK for developing mobile applications contained a slew of vulnerabilities, including a passwordless root account.

Search Insider Summit - Keyword Services Platform

The sponsored lunch today at Search Insider Summit comes from Microsoft adCenter which included a demo of their new Keyword Services Platform and add-in to Excel 2007.

Facebook Opens Developer Platform

Online social network site Facebook has now opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites.

The Battle Between Facebook & OpenSocial

Facebook appears to be trying to gain some ground against Google’s as-yet-unreleased OpenSocial effort by opening up its developer platform for other sites to use.

Google Custom Search Platform Spreads

Something that’s “custom” is usually rare; it’s often, in fact, unique.  Yet the Google Custom Search platform is available to just a lot of folks, as a new announcement states that it’s accessible in 40 languages and roughly 80 countries.