Monthly archive for July 2009

Bing and Federated Media Launch BingTweets.com

Wednesday, den 15. July 2009

Federated Media have launched a new website called BingTweets in partnership with Microsoft Bing. Bing Tweets integrates Twitter Results and Bing Search results into one easy to use website. TechCrunch have reported on this new website, below is small quote from the article at TechCrunch: “The resulting site could prove useful, but it’s a little [...]

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Facebook to Sell More Stock

Tuesday, den 14. July 2009

NMA report that Facebook are to again sell some more stock, reportedly to the same Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies. This time they are looking to purchase $100m for a 1.96% equity stake, which values Facebook at $6.5 billion. In a statement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said, “This is recognition of Facebook’s growth and progress [...]

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Google’s Engineering Director Leaves the Nest

Tuesday, den 14. July 2009

After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google for a role with VMware, we’ve learned. Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google’s APIs, including the all-important Search APIs. Before Google, Lucovsky worked at DEC and then Microsoft for 16 years, eventually gaining the title of “Distinguished Engineer.” He [...]

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Sphinn Launch V2 – The Next Generation!

Tuesday, den 14. July 2009

Some Sphinn users may have noticed some down time earlier, this was due to Sphinn updating the site to v2 (the next generation). With this comes many new features and a newer clean design. See below for a list of features as listed on the Sphinn Blog: – Cleaner design, taking aspects from our sister [...]

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O2 to Allow Free Twitter Updates

Monday, den 13. July 2009

NMA reports that the mobile provider, O2 are to allow subscribers to recieve updates from Twitter completely free of charge. Antony Douglas, head of content at O2, said, “We believe mobile will soon become the most popular way of accessing social networks, giving real-time access to tweets and status updates wherever you are.” Vodafone became [...]

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UK Mobile Advertising Study

Friday, den 10. July 2009

ModiAd have performed a study on the UK Mobile Advertising market, very interesting if you’re looking into mobile advertising in the UK. Below is a small quote from the study: “Last week at the Mobile Advertising UK Conference, a new study was presented that took an in-depth look at the progress mobile advertising is making [...]

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Social Media Spend to Top 1.9bn in 2014

Friday, den 10. July 2009

Revolution Magazine report that Social Media Spend is set to explode to £1.9bn in 2014, below is a quote from the article: “Forrester Research has thrown some figures behind what everybody already knows, that social media marketing budgets are set to explode over the next five years, predicting average spend to grow at an annual [...]

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Google’s Marissa Mayer On Real-Time Search

Friday, den 10. July 2009

The Guardian have conducted an interview with Google’s Marissa Mayer on real time search, see below for a quote from the interview: “What about real-time search – that’s one of the things that’s also been recognised as increasingly valuable to people. The rise of services like Twitter which offer something close to a real-time search [...]

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Google Chrome OS Potential Partners

Friday, den 10. July 2009

Google have released a new page on the Google Chrome OS Blog with the potential Netbook partners which Chrome OS will be looking at supporting. The lists includes Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. They have also confirmed that Chrome OS will be open source and open to the public [...]

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Bing Gains in the US

Friday, den 10. July 2009

New data has been released by Hitwise over in the US, the data shows a month on month drop, but this does not show the whole story. Looking at the data, for May 2009 they had a 5.64% share and in June 2009 a 5.25% share. Now if we look at week on week data, [...]

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