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Tuesday, 24th June 2008

China's Facebook Clones

Facebook has launched a Japanese version and a Chinese version (the latter announced this week). However, many Facebook clones have been in operation in China for a long time. So whether Facebook has an official presence in China does not really matter for millions of Chinese users. Perhaps you are bored with these China copycat stories. However…

Gang Lu comments

Evri Beta Launches: Search Less - Understand More

Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri's CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calling it a search engine. At its core, however, Evri definitely is a search engine, though it adds a very…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Why Social News Sites Must Implement Social Search

Social news sites such as Digg, Propeller, Reddit, StumbleUpon, where the community decides what content is worthy and what content isn't, are powerful enough to drive tens of thousands of visitors to some lucky content producers, and thus have become an incredibly valuable marketing platform. One good day on any of these sites can get you more…

Muhammad Saleem comments

Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter

Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo's fund Bezos Expeditions. The company says the money will be spent on building up its infrastructure and reliability to become the communications utility it needs to be before it can become profitable. Om Malik unearthed the rumor of this…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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Does Creative Commons Work? Check Out the New Case Studies Database

The Creative Commons Foundation launched a much-needed database of case studies today, highlighting CC licensed content from around the world. Creative Commons licenses are built on top of international copyright law but let content producers offer their work with more refined permissioning for re-use than the de facto "it's mine don't touch it…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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