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Facebook Is the Google of Mobile

Facebook is positioning itself to do to mobile what Google did to search.
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We Are All Huffington Post Now

Hey, what time do the Oscars start, anyway?
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YouTube to Power New Media Businesses of the Future? Maybe.

YouTube is engaging in many efforts to re-invent itself as a destination for premium content.

Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure Big Audiences

Slightly ahead of the holidays, several online retailers have announced TV commercials, including One Kings Lane, Fab.com, OpenSky, Gilt Groupe and Wayfair.
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How to Boost Your Facebook Traffic: Tips and Tricks From Wetpaint

Ben Elowitz fueled an entertainment site with Facebook friends. He shares some of his playbook here.
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The New New Web: Ask Not Who Needs It, Ask Who Wants It

The Internet has evolved from being a need-driven utility medium with only a handful of winners to a discovery-driven entertainment medium with room for multiple winners.

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Sites That Help Their Users Tweet Are More Likely to Get Tweeted

Web pages that include Twitter share buttons and links are seven times more likely to be mentioned in tweets, according to a new study by SEO firm BrightEdge. Yet 57.5 percent of the top 10,000 Web sites do not include Twitter buttons, BrightEdge found. Granted, Web sites that have highly shareable content, like publications, probably are more likely to have figured out this whole tweet button thing than those that don’t.

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The Web Is Shrinking. Now What?

We all read the statistics every week documenting the meteoric new growth areas of the Internet, and they are impressive. But what’s happening to the rest of the Web?

Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post’s top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. Before moving to the HuffPo as managing editor in 2009, which is now the key content unit of AOL, Singh ran CNET.
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Ahead of Earnings Next Week, Demand Media Shares Drastic Dip Due to Googley Panda-Monium

April showers bring…well, a bad month for the still-young stock of online content maker Demand Media. After a successful IPO in January, shares of the Santa Monica, Calif., company have only seen gloomy weather after algorithm changes at Google–with the seemingly dulcet code name of “Panda” and designed to weed out poorly made content–started to impact some of its traffic.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? … Obviously.