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Google Maps Adds Arterial Roads to Traffic Layer with Data from Your Phone

Aug 25, 2009
If you commute along a heavily-trafficked highway, you've probably often thought - and tried - alternate ways home. This is a trial-and-error method that can be quite frustrating. Many times, such as rainy days, when traffic is bad in one place -...

Amazon Cuts Rhode Island, Hawaii Affiliates; Is California Next?

Jun 30, 2009
We've been tracking the affiliate tax debacle involving Amazon and the state of North Carolina. Now, affiliates in more states are being affected. Associates in Rhode Island and Hawaii are receiving emails notifying them of the cancellation ...

Hunch Launches New "Decision Engine"

Jun 15, 2009
Microsoft's Bing isn't the only "decision engine" in town anymore, with today's launch of Hunch. Hunch is a new site that aims to connect people based on their answers to several questions, from "Where is your house located...

Google Responds to Thursday Morning Outages

May 15, 2009
Google has responded to the outages that affected several of its services in various locations throughout the world. Even though the buzz was big, only about 14% of users experienced issues. Of...

Andrew Goodman to Guy Kawasaki: You are Ruining Twitter!

Mar 31, 2009
At SES New York last week, I was amazed that the buzz generated by Guy Kawasaki's keynote about "Twitter as a Tool for Social Media" lasted more than 24 hours. Well, now it's a week later and...

Google Enables Personalizes Search for Signed-Out Users

Dec 4, 2009
When Google launched personalized search, it was for signed-in users only (and then only when Web History was enabled for the account). Now, guests or signed-out users at Google will get personalization. If you don't want the personalized...

Microsoft and Yahoo! Make It Official, Now Time for Some Good Ol' Fashioned Politicking

Dec 4, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo! have finalized the search agreement initially announced last July. Originally, they had planned to finalize things by late October. When they didn't meet that deadline, they assured everyone that progress had been made....

Bing Explains Yesterday's Blackout

Dec 4, 2009
Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella, took to the Bing Search blog to explain: The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some...

17 Google Updates We Ran Out of Time For

Dec 4, 2009
This was one of those weeks where Google unleashed a google of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time at the end of the week. So, occasionally, we have to compile a list of the leftovers at the end of the week. Here's what we...

17 Google Updates We Ran Out of Time For

Dec 4, 2009
This was one of those weeks where Google unleashed a google of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time at the end of the week. So, occasionally, we have to compile a list of the leftovers at the end of the week. Here's what we...




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