Alexa
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Twitter's hiring binge brings it to 140 employees
Venture Beat &bull Feb 17, 2010
The company just crossed the symbolic 140-employee mark, mirroring its famous character limit for tweets, according to co-founder Biz Stone. On Twitters job page, there are at least 27 openings alone, primarily on the technical side. Fresh off a funding… Full Story »
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New York City student arrested for doodling on school desk
Silicon Valley &bull Feb 5, 2010NEW YORK — A New York City junior high student has been arrested for doodling on her desk with a marker. Full Story »
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Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Jan 19, 2010
Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. But now Tumblr has been an Alexa Top 100 site for… Full Story »
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Competitious Helps You Get a Leg Up on Your Competitors [Entrepreneurial]
Life Hacker &bull Jan 13, 2010
Even if you've got an extremely original idea for a business, software, or product, it's hard to succeed if you don't keep up with your competitors. Free webapp Competitious helps you track your competition with collaborative feature comparisons, news feeds,… Full Story »
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- Alexa
- DoubleClick
- PHP
- Beta
- HTTP
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What the Web Is Saying About the Google/China Showdown
Boxxet &bull Jan 13, 2010
Written by Stacey Higginbotham hecaitou: After Google leaves China, the world’s top three websites on Alexa —Google, Facebook and Youtube are all blocked in China. This is not an issue of Google abandoning China, but one of China abandoning the… Full Story »
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How to Boost Your Alexa Ranking (by a MILLION Places!) in Two Months and One Day
Problogger &bull Jan 13, 2010
guest post by Kelly Diels In November, I rebranded and relaunched my blog. I screwed up, I suffered, I sniffled, I refuted the advances of a pervy tech wizard. And I thought: I’d better track my results to see if… Full Story »
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- AIM
- IM
- Problogger
- Alexa
- HTTP
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For New Yorkers, Trouble Buying an iPhone on AT&T's Site
New York Times Web 2.0 &bull Dec 28, 2009
It appears that the iPhone is no longer available for purchase on AT&T's Web site for customers with ZIP codes in the New York City area. Full Story »
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How To Increase Traffic 30% in a Week
Problogger &bull Dec 21, 2009
This morning I glanced down at the Alexa traffic indicator for ProBlogger in my Firefox browser and noticed that in the last week I’ve had a noticeable upswing in traffic to ProBlogger. At first I couldn’t think of why this… Full Story »
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World Map Of Social Networks Shows Rise Of Facebook
Avashya &bull Dec 21, 2009Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured… Full Story »
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Discover the truth about a site's online traffic
Seth Godin &bull Dec 12, 2009
You can find the traffic of a popular website (and compare it to another site) by entering the URL into compete.com. Or quantcast. This data is far more accurate than the charts Alexa offers, because most of the sites being... Full Story »
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- Alexa
- Compete.com
- Quantcast
- URL
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Billy Joel's Daughter Alexa Overdoses
CBS News &bull Dec 6, 2009
Hospitalized in New York City; Singer Says His Daughter Will Be Fine Full Story »
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Retargetting Ad Network OwnerIQ Raises $5.8M More
Alarm Clock &bull Dec 4, 2009
It's no secret that advertising re-targetting works and has a good cost savings for advertisers. The concept is that rather than spend 100% of your ad budget on AdWords, you provide an ad network with a description of the type… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Alexa
- TechTarget
- HTTP
- Network
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Study: People Imagine God in Their Own Images
Discover Magazine Computers &bull Dec 1, 2009
Perhaps unsurprisingly, people tend to project their own opinions onto ... Full Story »
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Panel Finds that Lowered Expectations of the Consumer May Save Energy (and Money!)
Venture Beat &bull Nov 19, 2009
During the Consumers and Efficiency Panel, covering efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors, there were more than a few opinions expressed on how to speed adoption. Of course, this is the point of a panel: multiple opinions. As time went by, some ideas gained more prominence than others… The most obvious solution to gaining a positive acceptance of smart grid tech… Full Story »
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Tell Me What You Thought of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook
Problogger &bull Oct 26, 2009
It has been a few months since the launch of the 31 Days to build a better blog workbook and so I’m hoping that those of you who have had an opportunity to digest the 31 days of teaching and… Full Story »
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Topics:
- AIM
- IM
- Problogger
- Alexa
- HTTP
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Web 2.0 Summit: Opening day Canaan Capital after party (video)
Venture Beat &bull Oct 23, 2009
The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco is where hundreds of the digerati are gathering this week. Here’s a video of the opening night after party on Tuesday night at the St. Regis Hotel, an event sponsored by Canaan Capital.… Full Story »
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- Alexa
- VentureBeat
- Vimeo
- Blogger
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The Economist's Innovation Award for 'No Boundaries' given to Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, for popularising social networking
webitpr &bull Oct 19, 2009
Core Facts In 2004, in his sophomore year at Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg created the Facebook social networking site. Initially, the site was only available to Harvard students as a directory of personal information and photos. The Internet site then eventually expanded to other Ivy League colleges, high schools, and then the public at large. The site allows members to keep in touch with friends, meet people with common interests, play games, share photos, links… Full Story »
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8 Easy Tips To Improve Or Increase Alexa Traffic Rank
allby &bull Oct 13, 2009
Alexa Rank is a ranking system of your website which bases its ranking on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed and from the backlinks to… Full Story »
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AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines to pay up (Alexa Olesen/Associated Press)
Techmeme &bull Oct 9, 2009
Alexa Olesen / Associated Press : AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines to pay up — BEIJING — The leaders of two of the world's major news organizations said Friday that it is time for search engines and… Full Story »
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Suksh Technologies launches India's first complete home and home services portal - www.100nests.com
Avashya &bull Oct 6, 2009Bangalore, April 07, 2009: All your basic home needs will now be addressed with just a click of a button .... Suksh Technology, a company which develops various technology and web solutions for consumers has launched a first of its kind website - www.100nests.com, a complete home and home services portal. The portal goes far beyond just offering B-S-R (buying-selling-renting) facilities that is currently the… Full Story »






