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Facebook launched several new features that many say take a direct shot at Twitter, the microblogging site that Facebook tried to acquire late last year. Twitter is all about real-time communication, while Facebook has been focused on fueling communication through interactivity. With the launch of these new features, however, Facebook is now [...]

When Facebook overhauled its user interface last year, dozens of “protest groups” cropped up from members that didn’t like it. The social network stuck to its guns on the changes, and Chris Cox, Facebook’s director of product, said people actually ended up using the site more.
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WASHINGTON - Bucking the Obama administration, House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting to June 12 — leaving an estimated 6.5 million U.S. households unprepared for the currently scheduled Feb. 17 switchover.
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B.L. Ochman also writes the popular What’s Next Blog.

Keeping up with social media is a daunting task. The No. 1 question I’m asked when I speak at corporate seminars and mention that I recently wrote my 7,000th Twitter entry is “How in the world do you have the time for [...]

It seems that everyone is atwitter about Twitter. Yes, other microblog services with insufferably cute names, such as Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk, are around. But Twitter has quickly become the de facto choice for creating really, really short blogs.

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» Video, Rich & Streaming MediaBy Ian Schafer, The ClickZ Network, Jan 11, 2008
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I spent this week at CES 2008, where innovation was everywhere. I’m the CEO of an agency for which innovation is everything, so this was a can’t-miss for me. The event got me [...]

You bought the iPhone, you paid for it, but now Apple is telling you how you have to use it, and if you don’t do things they way they say, they’re going to lock it. Turn it into a useless “brick.” Is this any way to treat a customer? Apparently, it’s the Steve Jobs way. [...]

What exactly did Google do to create such a fervent enemy-combatant in the media company Viacom? Ever since we learned of the collapse of discussions over carrying Viacom cable content on YouTube, Viacom has been on an apparent crusade to bring Google to its knees.
After months of negotiations to give Google’s YouTube permission to display [...]

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o Why does my company need SEO?
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