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Amy Vernon gets it in this new interview. She’s AmyVernon on Digg, and it’s fairly easy to find her elsewhere on the Web. As a former editor of the Lower Hudson Journal News, she found time in her daily routine to figure out how to drive tons and to read more »
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I created a Mixx group just for commercial posts so you don’t have try to get away with disguising commercial crap to get a few bookmarks. Get feedback on salesletters, products, marketing, sites, layout and good quality posts should get Mixxed. Wha read more »
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Friend Connect may be going live soon. New pages, video and rumors from others bring new hope Google will finally let this go and connect a friend or two. read more »
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Top Ten Reasons McCain lost the election because Obama used social media so much more effectively. While Obama’s use of social bookmarking and Digg in particular was a campaign of conjecture, it had a huge effect. If anything, it simply overwhelmed read more »
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Facebook Connect first live site scores big with the first roll out of a Facebook Connect portable social network. But where is Google?

After Facebook Connect took a big chance by dumping Google FriendConnect and going it alone, most of us though read more »
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After reading that RSS feeds in Google search is coming soon on WebProNews, quoting both SearchEngineLand and TheWallStreetJournal, I became somewhat confused. Why? because RSS feeds have been available in Google Blogsearch for a month now. Maybe lo read more »
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Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event. G read more »
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Matt Cutts says: More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch’s new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what’s go read more »
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Digg bans Zaibatsu as Digg goes into a massive cleanup effort to try and still sell the place. Many have already been banned from Digg and everyone is laying low right now, even Digg to 10. Can you hear Kevin crying in his sleep, "Google come back, read more »
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Google Friend Connect released on Blogger, but still trying to fly under our Googling Social radar... Google instead of Friend Connect calls it Following on Blogger.

You can try out Google Friend Connect full version and add it to your Blogger bl read more »
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This is Google's Social Bookmarking and the first public stab at what will be Google's array of social sites that will all work together. Open social will somehow work into this as well. read more »
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Google Reader adds a friends list, many social features like bookmarking, RSS feed item sharing, comments on blog posts and a blog recommendation engine based on your friends feeds and what you have in Google Reader read more »
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A new high of nearly half (49 percent) of all internet users use search engines on a typical day, up from about one-third in 2002 - and closing in on the use level of email (60 percent of those online use email each day) - according to a new analysi read more »
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Let me introduce myself, I am Doctor Robert Neville. You know, the guy that Will Smith played in I Am Legend. I am the only person left alive and consequently The Last Digger On Earth... Kind of a silly post, but I liked it and it does touch on the read more »
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It's not that they disapprove of Yahoo remaining independent of Microsoft. It's just that Google's search market share, at nearly 70 percent in June, has only grown stronger during its rivals' kerfuffle. Online marketers here Wednesday at the RBC Ca read more »
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One of my clients got a little carried away and Dugg too many articles. Yeah, that's right, too many Diggs. Digg immediately banned the account and sent this email from Digg. read more »
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StumbleUpon on Yahoo! Search allows you to see StumbleUpon website reviews and ratings, in your Yahoo! Search results. Now your favorite parts of StumbleUpon can show up in search. read more »
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According to The Guardian, Yang will be hard-put to explain what exactly happened during the Microsoft takeover talks — which could have added $48 billion to Yahoo's coffers. (Current stock market prices value the company at $27.3 billion). Many thi read more »
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For example, a person living in San Francisco can run a search for a national business. In the upper right-hand corner of his results, he may see, "Customized for San Francisco metro area, US. More details." The latter is a hyperlink that, when visi read more »
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In Friday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET reporters Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss what could go down at this year's annual Yahoo shareholder meeting. Angry revolt against CEO Jerry Yang's compensation package? Gripes about the yo-yo read more »
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Omniso allows users of YouTube and other video sites to share videos in a variety of ways, annotate them with comments, edit videos, add and synchronize slide shows, and generally add information to videos to enhance the viewing experience. About tw read more »
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The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday’s over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods. This was entirely the company’s own fau read more »
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I find this FriendRank algo to be the most interesting development at Google but for the most part it seems to be ignored by most... read more »
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Live Search will be integrated into Facebook by year's end — part of an extended ad agreement with Microsoft, reports The Register.

Last year Microsoft bought 1.6 percent of Facebook for $240 million, ballooning the site's value to over $15 billi read more »
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Many do not seem to understand the full scope of what is playing out with Digg and Google and why Digg is so valuable. This article should pull it all together for you. read more »
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