Apple has finally canceled the “Get a Mac” ads, which have been quite famous for their Mac vs. Windows set ups with Justin Long and John Hodgman. Apple hasn’t released a new ad in the series for a while, and now the page on apple.com where you could once find the ads has been replaced by a “Why Mac?” page.
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Posted by Paul in Publisher, Web 2.0, social media on April 22, 2010
Facebook has had its “Share” button for a while, but now it’s become a lot easier to share stuff with your friends, as Facebook has introduced the “Like” button, which can be placed on any website or article, and user can simply click it to share with friends. Facebook has lined up a lot of major publishers to distribute the service, including IMDB, ESPN and CNN. Expect lots of blogs and sites to add the Like button to everything they have in the near future.
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Posted by Paul in Publisher, business, google, social media on April 16, 2010
Facebook is one of the ultimate time-wasters people can indulge themselves in, whether that’s browsing your friends photos or playing some Farmville. Now new statistics indicate that Facebook is twice as popular as Google during work hours, which is no surprise, as there’s endless things to do on Facebook, while Google offers… search. And very fast search, as well.
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Posted by Paul in Publisher, social media, video on April 15, 2010
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has a Twitter account, but apparently hasn’t used it at all. Now, serial Tweeter Alyssa Milano teaches him how to Twitter.
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The Library of Congress, which deals with preservation and copyright, has announced that it plans to archive all public tweets from Twitter, for all eternity. Of course, these do not include all Tweets, just those published by government agencies and politicians etc.
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Posted by Paul in Blogging, RSS and Podcasting, Publisher, Tools on April 14, 2010
Bit.ly, one of the most popular ULR shortening services and the de-facto standard for Twitter, has revealed that the service got over 3.4 billion clicks in March, with over half of the clicks coming from Twitter.
There are many URL shortening services out there these days — hundreds — but what sets Bit.ly apart is that it’s the default service for Twitter. As soon as Twitter replaces it with its own twee.tt, Bit.ly will most certainly see a decrease in usage.
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Posted by Paul in Publisher, Venture capital, business on April 14, 2010
Lending Club, the peer-based lending service, where users lend users money, has announced that it has raised a whopping $24.5 million in a series C round led by Foundation Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners. This brings Lending Club’s total capital raise at just over $52 million. The company was founded in 2006 and originally started as a Facebook app.
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Posted by Paul in Publisher, Venture capital on April 9, 2010
Kontagent, the new startup which offers Facebook analytics software, has raised $1 million in angel investment from a series of private investors, in addition to the company’s $250,000 fund from the Facebook Fund. Kontagent offers a detailed analytics platform for Facebook, with emphasis on gaming, where several Facebook game developers are using Kontagent to track the stats of their players.
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