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November 30, 2009 in News Roundup
A Swedish marketing agency, Forsman and Bodenfors, has experimented with an innovative use of social media.
The campaign for the opening of a new Ikea store in Malmö has been praised for its creativity as well as its simplicity.
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November 30, 2009 in News Roundup
Yahoo is adding more context to news searches, bringing photos, videos, and even tweets into its search results page.
Searchers on Yahoo – who are dwindling – will find new results for newsy events, when Yahoo launches new tabs on the Yahoo News Shortcut.
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November 30, 2009 in News Roundup
The service, which was launched 26 November, enables Absolute Radio listeners to tag songs straight on their iPods.
The tagging is done simply by holding down the centre button of your iPod while a song you’re interested in is being played. The song will then be listed in iTunes the next time the iPod is synced to it and the decision can then be made to buy the song or leave it.
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November 26, 2009 in News Roundup
Microsoft is suggesting News Corp to remove its content from Google and is offering to pay to make News Corp’s content available through their own search engine Bing, Financial Times reports.
According to the article, Microsoft has also approached other online publishers about their plan.
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November 25, 2009 in Jobs
JUMP is looking for a talented Web Developer. You will have a passion for creating websites that look and work beautifully with experience in the following skills:
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November 25, 2009 in News Roundup
Sony has announced that there are plans for a new online store for music, film, books and other digital content, set to be released next year.
The announcement came at a management strategy meeting in Tokyo on 19th November and the new service, temporarily dubbed “Sony Online Service” is planning to take on Apple’s iTunes store (who presently dominates with over 70% of the global digital music market).
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November 24, 2009 in Micro-Bites
Quote
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester
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November 24, 2009 in Micro-Bites
Definition
Folksonomy A collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorise content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. The freely chosen labels — called tags — help to improve search engine effectiveness because content is categorised using afamiliar, accessible, and shared vocabulary.
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November 24, 2009 in Micro-Bites
Profile
Dr Fred Cohen was the person to create the first ever computer virus.
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November 24, 2009 in Micro-Bites
Lateral Thinking
Q: A man marries twenty women in his village but isn’t charged with polygamy. Why?
