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Opera 10.10 now available

The latest version of the browser has Opera Unite built right in.

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Retailers Funneling More Money To Bing

Bing has managed to turn retailers' heads in a big way. After looking at statistics from part of 2008, SearchIgnite reported that retailers spent almost 50 percent more with Microsoft's search engine this time around, which puts Google and Yahoo partly to shame. Or, to be more precise, "Retailers have spent 47% more on search ads on Bing in Q4 this year than during this same time period in 2008,"...

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Ensuring Your Site is Indexed in Google's Mobile Search

In this day and age, you pretty much can't ignore mobile users. The rate at which consumers are accessing the web via mobile devices is growing rapidly, largely thanks to the increasing popularity and production of smartphones. Just having a mobile site isn't even enough. Sure, it's a great start, but you have to start thinking about a mobile site just as you would a regular site. Can people find...

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Now LinkedIn Will Be Featured in a Lot More Apps

LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com . "Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today," says LinkedIn' Adam Nash. "However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web sites...

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Microsoft and News Corp To Consider Web Pact?

"Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry."

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Android Continues To Make Inroads

Google's Android is growing like a weed. Perhaps even a weed that's been fertilized and watered as if it was a desirable flower. A new report from AdMob lays out some impressive usage statistics and hints that there's much more to come. Here are two eye-opening stats of a somewhat broad-spectrum nature: "Worldwide requests from Android devices increased 5.8 times since April 2009." Also,...

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LinkedIn Opens Up API to Developers

LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn's social network. While LinkedIn is releasing 11 different APIs, they fall into three distinct categories. First, developers will be able to...

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Google To Acquire Teracent

"Teracent's technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time � tweaking images, products, messages or colors."

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Google Gets a New Real-Time Infrastructure for Display Ads

Google just announced that it is acquiring Teracent , a provider of "intelligent dynamic display advertising." The company considers itself a pioneer in dynamic ad serving and optimization solutions. Google appears to agree. Teracent provides machine-learning algorithms, which can create customized display ads based on thousands of different creative elements. The infrastructure Teracent...

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Link Building According to Bing

Bing's official blog posted an that discusses a number of issues. It's a far ranging article that includes a little about how Bing analyzes links in addition to recommendations of how to acquire links. Some of these tips make sense although some left me scratching my head. You judge for yourself. :P

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Ruby VM’s in 2010

Hers’s an outstanding, very detailed article on where Ruby VM’s are going in 2010 as their development accelerates and makes the language much more broadly available, by Ilya Grigorik at Igvita.com. He calls it a rennaissance. A nice “here’s where we are now” review of eight different Ruby VM’s: MRI, JRuby, MacRuby, MagLev, Ruby Enterprise [...]

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AdTweets Seek to Promote Retweeting of Ads

Businesses and ad networks are increasingly finding new ways to integrate social media and advertising. This is evident with AdKnowledge's recent acquisition of SocialMedia.com's ad network , and it is also evident with TweetMeme's new AdTweets. AdTweets is a product, which TweetMeme says is designed to reward advertisers for using engaging advertisements. "The Adtweets are a way of putting pressure...

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The Many Flaws of Twitter's Retweet Feature

I've been a Twitter user for almost two years now and I have always been impressed by the emergent behavior that has developed from simply giving people a text box with 140 character limit. The folks at Twitter have also done a good job of noticing some these emergent behaviors and making them formal features of the site. Both hashtags and @replies are examples of emergent community conventions in...

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eBay Back On Its Feet After Search/Browse Outage

eBay suffered a significant malfunction this weekend as an unspecified "technical issue" affected users' ability to both search and browse listings for most of Saturday. Now, the site's been restored to working order, but a lot of sellers remain extremely unhappy. Lorrie Norrington, the president of eBay Marketplaces, tried to do a bit of damage control by stating, "We know this is...

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Building Scalable Databases: Perspectives on the War on Soft Deletes

In the past few months I've noticed an increased number of posts questioning practices around deleting and "virtually" deleting data from databases. Since some of the concerns around this practice have to do with the impact of soft deletes on scalability of a database-based application, I thought it would be a good topic for my ongoing series on building scalable databases. Soft Deletes 101:...