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A Digital “Magazine” With One Subscriber

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT

A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.

Topsy Hands Out Real-Time Search Widgets

Liz Gannes in Social on January 13, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Real-time search engine Topsy today is launching customizable widgets for publishers to display topical tweets.

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A New Type of Tracking: Akamai's "Pixel-Free" Technology

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Akamai Technologies Inc., the large Web infrastructure provider, is promoting a new tracking technique it calls “pixel-free” technology. Pixels are bits of software that tracking companies install on Web pages to monitor user behavior. These pixels, also known as “beacons” and “tags,” can install cookies–or small tracking files–on a user’s machine, or they can simply send information about a user ’s behavior to a tracking company.

Saving Web Articles

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 3, 2010 at 4:09 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on saving Web articles, virus concerns and Wi-Fi-free Internet connections.

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So Many Trackers, So Little Time

WSJ Staff in News on August 3, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

A Wall Street Journal study found an average of 64 tracking tools on the top 50 websites. In fact, there are so many of these files out there that a new company is winning business by helping sites keep track of the trackers.

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Facebook Facial-Recognition Tagger Goes Live

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2009 at 6:47 am PT

Face.com is opening its photo-tagging system, based on facial-recognition technology, to Facebook members Wednesday. Photo Tagger, which launched to a limited group of users in July, scans a user’s photo albums on the social-networking site, then lets him tag faces it identifies.

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Ford and Microsoft Team Up to Promote the New Taurus

Jeff Bennett, Staff Writer, Dow Jones Newswires in News on September 22, 2009 at 8:15 am PT

Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to market the auto maker’s redesigned Taurus sedan. Ford and Microsoft first teamed up a few years ago to launch the Sync telematics system, which enables drivers to hook Bluetooth entertainment and communications devices into the car.

A Search Engine With a Real Eye for Videos

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm PT

Web video has transformed the way the Internet is used, but finding the exact clip you want can be incredibly hard. And it’s no wonder, considering that sites like YouTube conduct their hunts by looking at a clip’s “contextual metadata” — tags, video title and description — and thus can often be misled by false information.