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Microsoft Replacing Windows Live Spaces with WordPress.com

September 28, 2010, by No comments yet
Microsoft and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced today that the Windows Live Spaces blogging service will be phased out in favor of WordPress.com. Users of the service will have the ability to transfer their blogs via a new migration utility beginning today. In a post on Inside Windows Live, Dharmesh Mehta, Director, Windows Live Product Management, said: “Over the last ...... read more

Mark Zuckerberg to Become Comic Book Hero, Villain?

September 28, 2010, by No comments yet
Can’t get enough of Mark Zuckerberg? Well, if the upcoming movie The Social Network doesn’t sate your desire for the Facebook (Facebook) founder, he’s slated to star in his own comic book come December. Bluewater Productions — a Canadian production company specializing in comic books, graphic novels and multimedia that has previously told the tales of celebs like William Shatner, Roger Corman, ...... read more

Twitter to Launch “Promoted Accounts”

September 28, 2010, by No comments yet
Twitter intends to monetize on the desire to collect more followers with the announcement of its “Promoted Accounts” product tomorrow. The company plans to reveal its newest promoted advertising product tomorrow at the IAB Conference in New York. It’s relatively straightforward, according to All Things Digital: Businesses can pay to be included in the “Who to Follow” feature. This will ...... read more

Online Casinos Bluebook – The Best Of The Best

September 22, 2010, by No comments yet
Are you a passionate Casino player or want to try your hand at online gambling and earn big then this is especially for you. Online Casino Bluebook is an absolutely free guide to the most popular online casinos in the world. These online casinos are reviewed by well experienced online gamblers who have already played at these casinos and are well aware of them. Online Casino Bluebook ranks the ...... read more

Google Chrome to get advanced plug-in blocking

August 14, 2010, by No comments yet
Content settings aren't a new feature to Google Chrome, but as the browser matures it looks as though the Big G is making granular controls. Two recent additions to the Chromium source code combine to function very much like FlashBlock does: per-plug-in content settings and click-to-play. Visit a page with the former enabled, and the latter allows you to click any element you want to display. ...... read more

Twitter Users Aren’t Interested in Supporting Your Brand

July 30, 2010, by No comments yet
Bad news, Evil Corporations: Twitter tweeps aren't your shills! A study by digital marketing agency 360i reveals that only a sliver of consumer tweets forward branding messages. It notes that "more than 90-percent of tweets originate from consumers -- and only 8-percent are authored by marketers." Conversely, only 12-percent of all tweets mention a brand. (Click here for the full PDF report.) When ...... read more

Some First Impressions on Firefox 4

July 10, 2010, by No comments yet
After spending a bit of time with it, I think I can finally write an editorial on some first impressions of Firefox 4.0 Beta 1, the first public beta release by Mozilla. I'll go over the speed improvements, vast user interface changes, and most importantly, what I like and dislike so far. Speed Speed has always been an issue with me in Firefox, which is why I switched to Chrome over a year ago. You ...... read more

Facebook Closes Up the Gift Shop

July 10, 2010, by No comments yet
BREAKING: Facebook just announced that as of August 1st, users will no longer be able to send and receive virtual gifts (as well as some real gifts) on Facebook as Facebook looks to improve other products. The gifts you've already received on your Wall will remain visible, and you still will able to view your sent and received gifts on your gifts page. People also can continue to use the many third-party ...... read more
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