December 2009

6 million eBay users = $500-plus million in 2009 sales

December 29, 2009

eBay says iPhone/iPod touch shoppers went crazy over the holiday season . The number of items bought via eBay’s  free mobile app this year was triple last year’s holiday volume. In 2009, eBay buyers and sellers are generating more than half a billion dollars of  mobile transactions. Nearly 6 million people have eBay’s app on [...]

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Yahoo! extends Facebook integration under ‘Project Mount Rushmore’ initiative

December 2, 2009

Yahoo! says it will get more cozy with Facebook by integrating the two in a way that helps users better stay in touch and grab more meaningful content when they want it. The big idea is to further the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative and to “make the two experiences more open, social and personally relevant [...]

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg follows up on privacy controls announced in July

December 2, 2009

Facebook’s head honcho, Mark Zuckerberg, said back in July the company was preparing to do a better job of locking down the privacy of its users. Facebook now has 350 million users worldwide, Zuckerberg says. In an open letter, published last night, Zuckerberg finally got around to detailing just what those privacy controls will look [...]

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Tweet and be seen

December 1, 2009

I think augmented reality for smartphones like the iPhone 3GS is very, very cool. Now, comes Twitter 360, a new app that enables you to visualize your Twitter friends who are located near you using AR (it works in combination with the iPhone’s camera). It’s one of the first apps to use Twitter’s new geotagging [...]

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Searching for cultural signs o’ the times

December 1, 2009

Every year, Google publishes its year-end Zeitgeist. The list is out and no surprise: Michael Jackson tops the list for fastest-rising search term in the worldwide and entertainment categories. Last year put Sarah Palin at the top of the worldwide list, followed by Beijing 2008. The last Olympics is one of the most rapidly falling [...]

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