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by Larry Magid The Financial Times is reporting that Twitter will include advertisements in users’ message streams “according to people with direct knowledge of its plans.” The newspaper’s site also said that Twitter is likely […]

  Contrary to what some people might think, using social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn actually correlates with being more social in the real world. A just released report from the Pew Internet & […]

Even though it’s the undisputed leader in search, Google isn’t sitting still. It can’t. Unlike email services or social networking sites, users don’t have a great deal invested in which search engine they use so […]

Tuesday June 14, 2011 Live Blog — event over 9:39 “Quest for knowledge does not take a break” 9:41 Showing a graph showing that traffic on dekstop peaks in early afternoon but at 9:00 PM […]

On Thursday June 9th, Google posted a “doodle” to commemorate what would have been the 96th birtday of guitarist and guitar designer Les Paul who died in 2009. What’s unique about this doodle is that you can actually […]

CNET news is reporting that regulators are investigating whether Facebook’s photo-tagging service violates European law.  The “tag suggestion” service that Facebook introduced in the United States in December is now being introduced “in most countries,” […]

I don’t have any inside information about Apple’s long-term operating system plans, but I’m starting to wonder if “Lion,” the next version of OS X, might be the last version. I could be wrong, but […]

I was optimistic but a little incredulous as I watched Microsoft’s Windows President Steven Sinofsky and corporate Vice President Julie Larson-Green demonstrate Windows 8 at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos […]

HIT REFRESH FOR LATEST UPDATES Steve Jobs opened it up but turned it over immediately to VP Phil Schiller who is talking about Mac and the new Lion operating system. Lion is a major release with more […]

by Larry Magid Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif — In addition to admitting the obvious that he “screwed up” during his tenure as Google CEO by allowing Facebook to run away with social networking, Google’s incoming […]