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Newspapers Fail To Engage Readers
Source suggests that newspapers do not engaged readers enough and in turns have allow readers go elsewhere. Blogs and other online publishing techniques have ways for readers to be engaged such as commenting system, and it shows that readers have came back often to the same articles to check on comments and replies. More.
A Report Accuses Facebook Founder Of Hacking
Here is another surprise for you today, founder of Facebook has been accused for hacking some people in the pasts to make his social network portal Facebook as popular as today. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is being accused for using the black art known as hacking to hack into email accounts of Journalist of Harvard College [...]
Google Acquires Picnik
Although Picnik has been around since 2006, I have never heard of this online service until I heard about Google has acquired Picnik. So what’s Picnik? Picnik is an online service that allows you to edit photos in a web browser. Although I have never tried it out yet, but around 40 million people visit [...]
Google Faces Buzz Lawsuit
It seems that Google needs to be more careful whenever it rolls out new applications, because people will file for lawsuits. A recent feature that Google is pushing for is known as Buzz for Gmail. Unfortunately, the algorithm has weaknesses, and people are complaining about how Buzz exposes some contacts to unwanted prying eyes. Already, [...]
Facebook And PayPal Team Up To Provide Virtual Payments
Buying virtual goods with real money isn’t a new thing since the World of Warcraft, although unintentionally, has been facilitating the business of selling virtual goods. Some WOW’s gamers bought virtual gold with real money to level faster and acquire awesome armors and weapons. WOW is only one example of many virtual communities that either [...]
Microsoft’s Bing Maps With Augmented-Reality Technology Allows You To See Scary Details Through Static Images And Live Videos
The future is here! We have the technology that could monitor just about anything dynamically at anywhere at anytime in scary details. For an example, you don’t have to put on a big coat, catch a taxi, or even drive your own car to a supermarket in winter since all you have to do is [...]
Veoh Goes Bankrupt Files Chapter 7
Another video service is biting the dust as Veoh is going to file for bankruptcy (Chapter 7). Although Veoh had won in court against the Universal Music Group in a DMCA lawsuit, had tens of millions of users, millions in revenues, but in the end the company couldn’t generate enough cash to stay afloat. This [...]
What Is Happening Now In Social Network?
When the web was pretty much a static place, the interaction of web users and the Internet was already chaotic and fast, but now we have something we called social network which has been a mantra for a heap of websites and businesses. Social networking on the web is continuing to evolves fast, and we [...]
Google Buzz Is In The House
A new social layer that Google is launching for Gmail known as Google Buzz contains some features that you could swear those are on Twitter. To me Google Buzz does make Gmail more social, but do you want to check your email with all that buzzing noises around you? This also a concern for people [...]
Not A Network Glitch, But It Is Done On Purpose For Verizon Has Blocked 4chan
Is it right for an ISP to block a website’s web traffic on purpose? If a website is so bad that it should have been taken down by the legal enforcers, then it should have been taken down, but if it’s still up for whatever reason, this means it has the right to be up [...]
