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Pirate Bay Ban Rockets Pirate Party Website Into The Big Time
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The Pirate Bay has suffered censorship in many countries across Europe but the recent steps against the torrent site in the UK have generated a much bigger response than similar actions previously taken against the site elsewhere. It’s not absolutely clear why this is the case but it’s certainly possible...
Online Video Content Pioneer Revision3 In Acquisition Talks With The Discovery Channel
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Seven years in, Revision3 and its stable of web stars have more than survived the tough early days of building a video content business on the web. The San Francisco company is now bringing in a respectable 100 million video views per month, following a big 2011 — and it may be about...
Hack Your Housing: Check Out This Berkeley Freshman’s ‘Ridiculously Automated’ Dorm Room
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So this is pretty fun. A University of California at Berkeley freshman named Derek Low uploaded a video to YouTube today of what he’s calling the “BRAD”, or the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm. Apparently, Low set out three months ago to make “the most ridiculously automated dorm room in...
Startups struggle to keep their sites speedy on PCs, phones, and tablets
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For a startup, a lot is riding on the home page. You might be surprised, then, to learn that startups vary wildly in how quickly and reliably their website home pages load. That’s especially true when you look at load times on mobile devices. An increasing number of people...
Spotify launches Play Button for websites to stream music
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Tumblr support for bloggers alongside big media websites, but no brands allowedSpotify has unveiled its latest attempt to beef up its streaming music service's web presence beyond its desktop application. It's called the Spotify Play Button, and provides website owners with a way to stream songs, albums and playlists from...
Distimo Launches AppLink For Mobile App Publishers, Details Strategies For App Store Success
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This month, app store analytics firm Distimo is taking a step back from analyzing the details of mobile app trends to survey the larger landscape of the app stores themselves. While some of the new entrants to the app store market have launched and failed over the past few years, others like...
Yahoo And CNBC Launch Huge Partnership Designed To Clobber Bloomberg
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The leading online finance site, Yahoo, and the leading business TV network, CNBC, have announced a major partnership. The companies will share content and talent and co-produce web shows that will appear on both their web sites. CNBC content will be integrated throughout Yahoo Finance and Yahoo. The deal is...
Weebly Aims Big For Online Publishing Market, Adds 25 More Themes And A New, Polished Interface
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It’s 2012, you’re a small business, and you know you need a web presence — but where do you turn? Maybe a Facebook Page or Twitter account if you want something social and very simple. But maybe you need a fuller set of features, where you can control the look...
This developer won’t quit until he has built the best version of Instagram for the web
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Good things come to those who wait, as we learned with Instagram’s massive Android success. For those of us who still use laptop and desktop computers (crazy, right?), there still isn’t an official way to brose the beautiful photos on Instagram, other than one at a time. For developer Brenden...
B&N Launches Nook For Web, Doesn't Work On iPhone Or iPad
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Barnes & Noble is bringing its Nook reading platform to the web today, where it will compete with Kindle’s Cloud Reader, iBooks, and Kobo’s Instant Reader head-on. The move is an important one in the sense that one needs a web presence in order to “feel” complete – that is, to...
Of money and mobile: OpenMarket sees the future as limitless
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At the Open Mobile Summit in London, a gathering of big players in the market gathered to look at the future of movements like media and mobile payments. The practise of spending money via a mobile device is still very fragmented as technology companies work on making the process smoother...
Hands-On With The Newly Revamped Snip.it: Where Pinterest Meets News, And So Much More
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They really are doing face-lifts younger and younger these days. It was just eight months ago in October 2011 when we first met Snip.it, a San Francisco-based startup that has created a web application for people to “snip,” collect, and comment on, and share their favorite articles from all...
Newspaper circulation records its lowest growth in the Middle East, with online media trying to catch up
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With newspapers in the Middle East recording the lowest circulation growth rate in the past 3 years, a small but significant Arabic speaking audience is turning to the digital space to get their news fix, according to a study from the Arab Media Forum. Analysing news patterns in the region,...
Newspaper circulation records its lowest growth in the Middle East, with online media trying to catch up
Google Improves App Advertising With New Mobile App Extension
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Google is announcing some new search advertising features designed to help advertisers drive more app downloads, and to track those downloads. The first feature, an Ad Extension, seems aimed at companies who have both a standard Web presence and an app to promote. Should a company like GrubHub (which was...
Join us for the Google I/O 2012 Day 2 keynote (live blog)
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The Day 2 keynote of Google I/O should focus on the company's Web presence with an emphasis on Chrome. Join CNET for our live blog. [Read more]...
This Is The App That Will Change Everything About Healthcare (AAPL, GOOG)
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HealthTap is an app available on iOS, Android, and the web that lets people ask medical questions of real doctors and get quick answers in return. Click here to take a tour of the app > The app is the brainchild of Ron Gutman, a serial entrepreneur working to shake...
News Corp. split would create 21st Century Fox
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Not that long ago, newspapers brought in the money that helped Rupert Murdoch build a media conglomerate with a $54 billion-plus market cap. Today, the publishing division still brings in 24 percent of the revenue — but only 11 percent of the operating profit. The rest comes from the entertainment...
Harnessing Web Fury: #SOPA, #KONY2012 and #StephenColbert
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Barack Obama is on Instagram. He's on Foursquare and Facebook, too. He's even on Google+. On Election Day, he suggested that his pioneering Web presence wouldn't end with the campaign, but would continue into governance. The new administration would foster innovative engagement, and Obama would become our first wired...
.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications
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The great Internet name rush has begun. By this time next year, more than a thousand new top-level domains—such as .blog, .cloud, .lol, and .foo—could be added to the Internet’s name space. And companies and individuals could be rushing to snap up domain names to either extend their Web presence...
Zillow to offer real estate agents WordPress-powered Web sites for $10 per month
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Zillow's latest offering gives agents WordPress Web sites at a low cost Zillow continues to roll out new services for real estate agents, taking the covers off a new offering today that basically gives agents low-cost Web sites. Known as Premier Agent Websites, the new offering is available for $10...
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales becoming adviser to British government
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Wikipedia founder and friend of students everywhere Jimmy Wales is set to become an unpaid adviser to the British government. Prime Minister David Cameron's special policy adviser Rohan Silva revealed the news in a presentation on "Open Source Government, Enterprise and Innovation" at SXSW yesterday, suggesting that Wales will...
Union Square Ventures Hires Two New Bright Young Minds As Analysts
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Mr. Watson, left, and Mr. Pease (Photo: Twitter/bwats and USV.com) Union Square Ventures just capped a nine-month search for fresh blood, announcing not one, but two new investment analysts this afternoon. New York City’s best known venture capital firm welcomed Alexander Pease and Brian Watson, bringing its total investment team...
Future U: Read all about it! College newspaper heralds future of journalism!
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vreimunde Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technology in museums, research parks, and...
Hands On With msnNOW, Microsoft’s New “Social Trend Breaking” Site
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Last night Microsoft announced msnNOW, a service that aggregates content around trending topics. msnNOW allows users to choose what the hottest trends are by showing a share count for each trending topic. Other than the web presence at now.msn.com, users can interact with the msnNOW Facebook app... Please visit Marketing Land...
Oprah Is Begging People On Twitter To Watch Her TV Network
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Last night, Oprah Winfrey took to Twitter to basically beg people, especially those who would affect Nielsen ratings, to put on her network. At the time, a show called "Oprah's Next Chapter" was on, according to TV Guide. Description: "America's Hidden Culture: Oprah explores the lives and practices of...
Zaarly Expands Web Presence, Launches API To Help Publishers Monetize Content
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For many, the appeal of realtime, local commerce platforms like Zaarly is evident almost immediately. For those unfamiliar, the mobile-centric reverse craigslist allows users to post requests to Zaarly’s app — for anything from data entry to a fancy Starbucks mocha frappuccino and how much you would be willing to...
Instagram adds likes and comments to web interface
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Instagram has expanded its web presence with the introduction of more interactive features from the app onto the browser version. It's now possible to like and comment on photos, and you can log in to edit some more profile options, a major shift for the service. It's also got...
Samsung Galaxy S III Usage Growing Significantly Since its Release
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Available to consumers for just over a month, the Samsung Galaxy S III has emerged as one of the hottest Android phones on the market, boasting positive reviews along with impressive sales figures. With an official shipping date of June 21st, manufacturers have had difficulty meeting unforeseen levels of demand....
Unigo doubling traffic each month after relaunching as marketplace for virtual college guidance
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Unigo screenshot In California, there is an average of one college counsellor for every 1000 high school students in the public high school system. That means counsellor’s can offer about ten minutes of their time per student each year. Unigo, which began with the goal of building the best online...
Instagram adds likes, comments in Web page expansion
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Update adds increased Web presence to the photo-sharing app, which Facebook like enough to buy for $1 billion. [Read more]...
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