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TechCrunch reports that Hulu has acquired Beijing-based video sharing site Mojiti.com. Not much has been written about Mojiti, which, just for references’ sake, has an Alexa ranking of 108,289 at the moment, so this acquisition is a bit of a surprise/out of left field.
So why Mojiti? The selling point of Mojiti, as far […]

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This report from the NY Times does the (dis)service of bringing Adblock Plus into the mainstream, informing all the Mom & Dad internet users out there that they can block advertising on any website. The article itself presents somewhat of a paradox, in that it is reporting on Adblock as a “niche” add-on for […]

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No one is sure when it will happen, but at this point it’s almost certain Google will announce a mobile device to debut sometime in the next 6 months. Just like everyone else, I’ve read the rumors about what it will do and look like, and what it will mean to Google’s competitors. […]

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The last couple months have seen increased attention (or some would say heat) on the practices of Text Link Ads and the market they’ve created. This is an important issue for many reasons, ranging from the mostly theoretical “democratic web” debate to the most nitty-gritty “this affects my bottom line” reality.
SEOmoz provides […]

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I was recently visiting a few of my regular blogs when I noticed something was very different about them - The ads had all been removed. Somewhat surprised, I then took a look at my own blog and saw that MY ADS were not showing up! I knew it wasn’t a Google […]

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With the new ability to send emails from facebook to recipients both in and out of the “face-osphere” it is now possible to never use Gmail again! Wait, why would I want to do that? Good question.
As Pete Cashmore writes this is another way that facebook is trying to dig deeper into our […]

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In an effort to compete in the evolving sphere of new media, Red Herring has redesigned their site, adding social networking features, a more “Web 2.0″ look and feel, and a video only site, RedHerring.tv. We all know the sad state of Business 2.0 and Red Herring understands the realities of the […]

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All sorts of blog posts about this apparently significant outage:
Suggestions of hacking - http://strennery.wordpress.com/
Bemused cynicism - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/
Sympathy - http://mashable.com/

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