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Web 2.0 Summit Auctions Priceless Items to Benefit Three Innovative Charities

The Web 2.0 Summit, in San Francisco, just announced the benefiting organizations and lots of the “Web Meets World” auction, which will take place on the evening of Wednesday, November 5. The proceeds from the event will benefit three charity organizations — the Lance Armstrong Foundation, WITNESS and Green For All.
Sponsored by Microsoft, the “Web [...]

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Blogs sway more purchases among readers than social networks

Today, BuzzLogic revealed the results of its Harnessing the Power of Blogs survey. The study aimed to uncover changing behavior around blog discovery and consumption, how blogs factor into consumer purchase decisions and the nature of blog influence on buying behavior.
The results suggest frequent blog readers use blogs as the top online navigation tool to [...]

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comScore Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Sites for September 2008

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for September 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.
Top 50 Properties
Google Sites continued to lead as the most visited property in September with more than 144 million visitors, followed [...]

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The Rewiring of Yahoo

Speaking to reporters at Yahoo’s Brickhouse facility in San Francisco, Ash Patel, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Audience Product Division and a panel of execs and managers spelled out the company’s “Rewiring Yahoo” plan, which establishes a “front door” for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services. The stack comprises an application platform, [...]

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Godaddy uses Social Media Chatter to enhance products

Visitors to GoDaddy.com are reaping time savings with the remodeled Web site. Something customers asked for and Go Daddy delivered. In-house designers spent months collecting user feedback from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, as well as other sources and incorporated those ideas to make the site easier to use and navigate.
“Our developers actually [...]

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Barnes & Nobel launches Social Network tools on BN.com web site

Barnes & Noble has decided to dip its toes into the social network relm.  It announced on Monday iys intention to launch “My B&N,” where online shoppers can set up personal pages focusing on their book, film and music interests and where they can also share information with Facebook and other social networks, using Open [...]

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Microsoft to preview Windows 7 at PDC 2008

It has been leaked that today, Microsoft will be going over where they are with Windows 7, as it related to development.  They are also suppose to be relating how this development may be changing as they work towards changes in the structure to allow better cloud computing.
Since both Google with the T-mobile G1android phone, [...]

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Evangelists, using Social Media to reach the “plugged-in” people

Today, the New York Time reports on area churches that are using social media and contemporary/alternative tunes to reach the masses in “seeker services”.
The article also states that among those born after 1984, about 33 percent attend church on a typical weekend, according to a 2006 survey by the Barna Research Group, which tracks religion [...]

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