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Thursday, 24th July 2008

AdMob Launches iPhone Ad Marketplace and Gives $1 Million in Ads to Developers

Today, the mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released a new, global marketplace for iPhone ads. The most interesting aspect of this is that these ads will be specifically tailored to the iPhone and will also be highly interactive. To promote this launch and the new platform, AdMob is giving away a total of $1 million to iPhone developers to…

Mobile Frederic Lardinois comments

The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music

Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it's becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn't the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers…

Play Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos

Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection, and, in typical Twitter fashion, their algorithm sent the service haywire, leading to yet another…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms

Much has been written lately about the rise of the API. Offering a programming interface to an online service is now standard practice amongst this generation of web companies. Through APIs, we get to enjoy a range of innovative Twitter clients, wide availability of maps and location information, custom search engines, and more. However, delivering…

Alex Iskold comments

Messaging Services

Yahoo Gives IMAP Access to All Users Through Zimbra Desktop

Just last week, we wrote about rumors that Google would be bringing offline access to Gmail and Google Calendar using Gears very soon. Today, Yahoo announced that it will be giving offline access to all free and paid Yahoo Mail users through the Yahoo Zimbra Desktop. This is the first time that all Yahoo users get offline access to their…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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