e dot dot dot 02 2010

Firms Casting a Wide Net for Social Media

New research suggests that as businesses explore social media tools to promote themselves and engage with customers, many are looking beyond the big communities like Facebook and Twitter.

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Apple's iTunes Hits 10 Billion Download Mark

Leading online music shop hits another major milestone with the sale of the 10 billionth song, offering one lucky customer a prize for making the right purchase at the right time.

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Love Test

Here's a neat little script to figure the "love compatibility" between two people. Just enter their names and hit calculate! We are not responsible for any broken relationships resulting from this script.

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Google Upgrades DoubleClick Ad Server

Better ad management, distribution and new features are the focus of Google's DoubleClick upgrade.

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Delayed Popup

Automatically opens a new popup window a given number of seconds after the page finishes loading. The script can optionally be configured to close the window after a few seconds.

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Holiday Season Saw Slight e-Commerce Rebound

Capping off a year of flat growth, holiday online shopping showed modest improvement over disastrous 2008 season, according to new data from Web metrics firm comScore.

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Crab Race

Places your bets on your favorite colored crab in a virtual crab race. Each crab has different odds and has different payouts. Good luck!

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eBay 'Garden' Promises Better Search, Feedback

New search feature lets users compare auction and Buy It Now listings side-by-side, refine their searches with fewer clicks and get a comprehensive view of an item's name, price and format.

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Facebook Pulling Microsoft Banner Ads

The companies' exclusive ad partnership may have fallen short of promise, but Microsoft touts expanded search relationship with the popular social site.

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Why Red Hat Had to Pull the Plug on Exchange

When Red Hat launched its Red Hat Exchange three years ago, the idea was to provide a market for its partners to sell open source solutions. But things didn't go as well as planned.

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Buzzwords

JavaScript takes a word you provide and puts it into a complex sentence.

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Amazon Yields to Macmillan in Kindle Standoff

After briefly yanking the mega-publisher's e-books from its library, Amazon has reluctantly capitulated to Macmillan's pricing demands.

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