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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that more than 3,500 registered state sex offenders have been removed for social networking sites Facebook and MySpace.
Under New York's e-STOP law, which was written by Cuomo, Facebook was able to identify and disable accounts linked to ...
Online
MySpace
In most pie charts that feature Google, the search giant dominates the circle, and a new one from the Fair Syndication Consortium follows that pattern. Unfortunately for Google's reputation, the chart's titled "How unlicensed use of U.S. newspaper content is monetized."
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Online
Those new to blogging or article writing have often been told to focus on one very niche topic. One narrow vertical. That has commonly been considered the way to gain credibility, readers, links, and ultimately traffic, which assuming the blog/site itself isn't your primary source of income, ...
Online
Update 4:03 PM ET -- The head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Phil Jones is stepping down pending an investigation by the University of East Anglia.
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The mainstream media has its head in the sand again while one of the largest conspiracies the world has ...
Other
Barack Obama
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have committed nearly $3.4 million in grants to improve Internet connections for libraries in five states.
Nationally, libraries report that demand for high-speed Internet access is growing faster than their ability to provide increased bandwidth. An ...
Software
Bill Gates
Microsoft
CNBC reports that the deal between GE and Comcast over a majority stake in NBC Universal is complete, and will likely be announced officially Thursday morning. This comes from what CNBC attributes as a "source close to the merger".
According to the report, GE and Comcast are ...
Home Theater
Comcast
CNBC
People may or may not have mobbed stores this Black Friday - your humble author hid inside and didn't watch any live TV - but they definitely spent some time at their keyboards. Google has stated that searches for "Black Friday" increased by more than 20 percent on a ...
Online
Black Friday
Amazon
We've been looking at Twitter's growth on a monthly basis, in terms of new user registrations and number of tweets. In October, new Twitterers were down, but tweets were up.
November's numbers paint a similar picture. Matthew Daines, the lead developer of Twellow, has shared a couple of new ...
Online
Those new to blogging or article writing have often been told to focus on one very niche topic. One narrow vertical. That has commonly been considered the way to gain credibility, readers, links, and ultimately traffic, which assuming the blog/site itself isn't your primary source of income, ...
Online
AdSense is an important fixture in a lot of people's lives; it can represent anything from spending money (hey, little splurges do the heart good) to what pays the mortgage. And now, individuals have a chance to shape it more to their liking, as a new Product Ideas for AdSense page has ...
Online
AdSense
Larry Page
We recently reported on the notion that Wikipedia losing editors could lead to a decline in accuracy. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , which runs Wikipedia, tells WebProNews growth in editing has slowed, but the number of editors is just flat, and not declining.
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Online
Wikipedia
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a 2-day workshop on "Journalism and the Internet Age" today and tomorrow. Featured at the event are a number of high profile media executives and gurus. The cast ranges from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch to Huffington Post co-founder ...
Other
Rupert Murdoch
Yahoo completed its acquisition of Right Media - which cost it about $650 million - two and a half years ago. Now, it seems that the arrangement's been revisited, as Yahoo's announced that it will discontinue the Direct Media Exchange (DMX) platform.
Under Carol Bartz's leadership, ...
Online
Yahoo
U.S. online retailers reported strong holiday sales results on Cyber Monday (Nov.30) 2009 compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from Coremetrics.
Cyber Monday sales were up 24.1 percent compared to Black Friday 2009. Consumers spent more per online order ...
Other
Black Friday
It's no secret that YouTube's trying to catch up to Hulu in terms of offering premium content; the site's administrators often make a big deal out of movie and TV show additions. What is under wraps - or at least hasn't been publicized in press releases and blog posts - is that YouTube ...
Online
YouTube
Hulu
Google has made a change to the way it treats its "first click free" option for publishers. The option was designed for legitimate publishers to get around Google's cloaking policies, which discourage the showing of one web page to a crawler while the user sees something different.
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Other
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that more than 3,500 registered state sex offenders have been removed for social networking sites Facebook and MySpace.
Under New York's e-STOP law, which was written by Cuomo, Facebook was able to identify and disable accounts linked to ...
Online
MySpace
Advertise.com and the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) have shared some interesting findings from a survey about online ad technology. The two organizations found that there is a lot of untapped opportunity for retargeting in online advertising.
Retargeting is ...
Other
France saw widespread growth in online video viewing during the past year, as audience size and video engagement both increased significantly, according to a new report from comScore.
The number of online video viewers in France increased 36 percent to 34.6 million, while the number videos ...
Online
YouTube
The mainstream media has its head in the sand again while one of the largest conspiracies the world has ever seen is exposed via Internet media. As most readers have heard by now, years of emails and programming code have been uncovered from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the ...
