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Social Networks and Blogs Dominate Time Spent Online With Tumblr at #3
I was just reading the Nielsen Social Media Report: Q3 2011 and, while there are some findings that are not that surprising, there are some very interesting tidbits of data. Not surprising to see that social networks, blogs, and microblogs are dominating our time spent online, taking up nearly 1/4 of time spent on the internet…
Read MoreLarry Cornett Joins Primal Board of Advisors
I’m proud to announce that I have joined the board of advisors at Primal; a very interesting startup that is developing powerful semantic technology to enable smart automation of the tasks you do daily on the Web. Imagine a smart assistant that better understands how you think and what you want. Very interesting indeed. I…
Read MoreAnother Facebook Privacy Breach Today
Update: Special thanks to the folks over at Facebook. I talked with a couple of people there who looked into the issue. Turns out that this case was actually not a privacy bug. Rather it most likely a case of an unintentional “reply all” and some sort of synching fluke, so that a threaded conversation…
Read MoreTwitter is the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine? Highly Unlikely.
Well, as reported by Fast Company today, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone stated they have now reached ~800 million search queries per day. That supposedly puts them above the combined query volume of Yahoo plus Bing. This story has spread like wildfire across the web, with everyone jumping on and claiming that Twitter is now “the…
Read MoreeBay Acquires RedLaser iPhone Barcode-scanner Application
eBay just announced today that they are acquiring RedLaser, an iPhone application that lets you scan barcodes on products in stores and do immediate price comparisons online. Product search on mobile devices has dramatically increased recently as a result of consumers being more price conscious and the improvements in smartphone technology. Buying RedLaser is a…
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