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Apple profit doubles from holiday sales

Apple made some serious bank over the holidays. Apple announced on Tuesday that it brought in revenues of $46.33 billion (

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Population growth dominates Facebook’s newsfeed

Facebook has revealed its list of top ten most-mentioned news stories of 2011 in the UK, with a BBC story concerning global population growth. In addition to the number one article, other newsworthy topics included the UK riots, the Royal Wedding and The Only Way Is Essex. The social networking giant put together the list by counting the number of clicks on its site for stories posted from the UK’s top media outlets. These articles can have appeared as shared items, wall posts or likes. Coming in at second place was the Sun’s story about a woman who received a tattoo with a scatological theme from her boyfriend for cheating on him.

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Branson cuts a Square deal

British billionaire Richard Branson has made an investment in mobile payment start up Square. Insiders claim that the businessman made a ‘multimillion’ dollar investment in the company, however the exact amount remains undisclosed. The latest injection of capital follows an earlier investment of $100 million (

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Blog Management – Go Blog Wild

Maintaining a blog is about much more than simply presenting the latest news in the life of a person or a brand. A good blog is about conveying the writer’s personality and interests to his audience. To that end, the comments section should be one of the liveliest parts of a blog. In addition, there should be an array of links available to promote similar or interesting sites for the readers, and the content should be on-topic and creative. One of the most interesting things about the web is the ease with which people can organize events. Flash mobs are a great example of this: A quick handful of tweets or SMS messages, and kids show up at a public school to perform an elaborate dance routine in protest against bullying.

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The Era of the Social Media Snob

What is this new type of snob? What is a social media snob? Well I have a feeling you already know, but here is an example. This is the person that has spent the last 3-7 years making “lots” of money using social media marketing or blogging and teaching others how to do it. And while they are selling you marketing products off their blogs or websites, they tell you that you must engage with your customers in order to make money.

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summer

Captcha Is Hard

I am a judgment matchmaking specialist (Judgment Broker) who writes a lot. This article is my opinion about how Captcha and other challenge systems may have gone too far, far further than they should. Captcha stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. The words were first used around 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper, and John Langford of the Carnegie Mellon University. Turing is the name of a repeatable test of a computer’s ability to behave with human-like intelligence. If a computer can fool a person into believing they are communicating with another human, the machine passes the test.

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Captcha Is Hard

summer

Yahoo! Creates Olympic Games Portal

Yahoo! has debuted its Summer Games lineup, including a new website, mobile and search products to help follow the Games, as well as several new programming and product sponsors.

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IMM Releases Document Search Engine

Document output management and automation technology provider, Integrated Media Management (IMM), has released its TotaleAtlas version 4.3.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Appear in Featured Session at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2006

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is scheduled to participate in this summer’s Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference and Expo 2006, the premier search industry event, from August 7-10, 2006, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

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Watson Search Tool, Gets Personal with Ties to MySpace, Wall Street Journal

Intellext is offering a free, fully customizable, Watson search tool, to allow users to choose information sources, creating personalized search tools. Formerly, the customizability was available only in Watson Professional, the licensed version of the proactive search tool. In addition to traditional web search engines, blog search engines, news and shopping sites, users can now also tap into additional sources including networking sites MySpace and LinkedIn, and premium news sites like the Wall Street Journal.

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