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Yahoo, Inc. has announced that Dapper, an company dealing in both creating and optimizing display ad campaigns, is now Yahoo's property. The acquisition should excite Yahoo fans for several reasons as Dapper has an impressive list of clients and partners (DoubleClick, Expedia, Microsoft, etc.) and a....
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In March of this year, YouTube announced that more than 24 hours of video was being uploaded to YouTube every minute. Those figures seem to have jumped as YouTube announced yesterday that video uploaded to YouTube had risen to 35 hours every minute. What that translates to is that 2,100 hours of vid....
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Late last year, Google released the Social Search trial, which is now available to everyone. In Social Search, when you conduct a search, the results pulled in contain relevant data from your social circle such as blogs or content generally written by a friend.
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Facebook topped Google in the UK to be the most popular site on Christmas day. This is an amazing feat considering Google is about Search and people are always looking for stuff online. In the UK however, Facebook seemed to embody the spirit of Christmas for online users, far more than Google did.
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Skype 5.0 for Windows was just released and with it comes major improvements and feature additions, the most notable of these being the Facebook tab allowing users to chat, SMS, or call their Facebook friends via Skype right from the News Feed.
The Facebook News Feed option will display a diges....
More » Facebook users forgetting to log out of their accounts will now have the ability to do so remotely. This improvement comes as a welcome feature to those accessing their accounts from public computers at coffee shops or libraries.
How will the new feature work? It will appear under the “Account Security” section of “Account Settings” and will display the most recent activity related to a user’s account, including location, device name, time and device type/browser. This will assist users in figuring out whether they left their Facebook account open at work or on a public computer.
There will also be links to the right of any active link, allowing users to logout remotely.
This is definitely a step in the right direction as users often utilize Facebook for all aspects of their life. Information contained in an account can be very private and these measures will work to keep it that way.
