The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter

Media, advertising, internet, network, social network March 8th, 2010

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“Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards”

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“New Year” has become the most popular topic search queries in the “Yandex”

Market research, Search Engines, internet, social network January 21st, 2010

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Russia Internet search engine “Yandex” named the most popular search topic in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: 2009, Microsoft, Moscow, New Year, online, popular, query, ranking, request, search engine, social networking, top ten, TV, Windows, Yandex

Facebook had the number of visitors more than double

Research, internet, social network January 12th, 2010

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Facebook saw the number of visitors more than double in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: 2009, comScore, Facebook, MySpace, social network, Twitter, visitors

Top Ten tech fails of 2009!

Blog, Market research, Media, Research, Web, internet, network, social network January 4th, 2010

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It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

Top Ten Technologies that Must Die

Research, Web, internet, network December 28th, 2009

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Some ancient gadgets quietly died a natural death. All of these pagers, handheld computers, floppy drives – they are no longer with us. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: adapter, add, address, Blu-ray, browser, business cards, card, cars, CD, console, Corded phones, digital, document, download, email, fax, gadget, information, internet, iPhone, link, mobile phone, modem, MP3, music, network, print, printer, program, radio, registration, remote control, scanner, service, site, technology, television, USB, Video, web pages, wired phone, wireless, www

Design company Bing sues Microsoft over trademark

Search Engines, Web, advertising, internet December 21st, 2009

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A small Missouri company with the word “Bing” in its name has sued Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition by the software giant. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: advertising, application, Bing, company, design, Microsoft, search engine, site, Web

Twitter is top word of the year

Research, Web, internet December 7th, 2009

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Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: 2009, Barack Obama, Media, social network, Twitter, word

Top 20 Websites in the World

Research, Web, internet December 1st, 2009

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Currently ranking the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 302,023,552 blog posts from 5,948,937 blog feeds. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: Alexa, analytics, Blog, Compete, feeds, post, ranking, Technorati, traffic, URLFAN, Website

Yandex rating closes popular blog entries

Blog, Media, Search Engines, internet November 5th, 2009

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Search engine Yandex has decided to close the top popular blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: Blog, Blog Search, bloggers, blogosphere, Entries, link, Media, post, rating, RuNet, search engine, top, users, Yandex

Google’s vision of the future?

Interview, Market research, Media, Web, internet October 28th, 2009

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: app, broadband, business, companie, computers, content, Google, information, internet, Interview, rank, real time, search results, social media, Web, YouTube