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Adgitize

Adgitize is a type of Traffic Exchange where members not only earn traffic but can also earn by displaying adgitize widget. There are many ways of earning credits or points and the simplest way to earn credit is by updating your site. The more points you earn the more income you get.

Cozi

Cozi is an American startup company, specializing in family software and online services. The company had 37 employees as of April 4, 2008, and is based in Seattle, WA. Cozi's tag line is "Family Life. Simplified." Cozi was co-founded by Robbie Cape and Jan Miksovsky after the two of them left Microsoft. Most of the company's employees worked previously at Amazon.com, Expedia, or Microsoft. The company's first product was called Cozi Central and released on September 25, 2006, and includes a family calendar, shopping lists, family m...

Entrecard

Entrecard is free Blog Advertising Network, It helps bloggers promote their blogs at the same time increase traffic. Members are required to create a 125x125 button and install a widget to their blog. To Earn EC or Entrecard Credit members must visit a blog and click the “drop” button on the entrecard widget. With EC you can advertize your blog on other blogs. The EC also serves as Entrecard currency whereby a member can trade EC for services. Entrecard was  acquired from Graham Langdon by ZipRunner in July 2009. From Entrecard Website ...

Mahalo.com

Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. As of January 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular search terms. Mahalo means "thank you" in Hawaiian. Mahalo's directory employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text lis...

FriendFeed

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social ...

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That Web 2.0? We are so over that

Posted on October 7, 2008
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As much as economic bubbles keep bursting all about us these days, it seems only a matter of time before the same happens to the ultrahip Web 2.0 phenomenon.

In fact, as our Brier Dudley noted in his blog last week, it may already be happening, given that even the tech magazines are making fun of the “cool kids” of Web. 2.0.

His case in point: PCMag’s feature listing the 10 “most absurd” social networks — you know, sites such as Dogster, a network for dog lovers that claims to have three-quarters-of-a-million members and monthly visitors.

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Expansion

Facebook to set up international base in Dublin

Posted on October 2, 2008
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Online social networking site Facebook will set up its international operations center in Dublin, officials said on Thursday.

“After exploring various locations throughout the region, we decided Ireland was the best place to establish our new headquarters,” Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement.

The Dublin center will provide a range of online technical sales and operations support services to Facebook users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the statement said without giving further details.

Facebook to set up international base in Dublin (Reuters) by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech

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Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons

Posted on September 19, 2008
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google_chrome Google’s new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday.

“There’s two different kinds of add-ons,” Vafai said. “The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome.” Greasemonkey’s founder, Aaron Boodman, actually works on the Google Chrome team.

Google Chrome was released earlier this month and saw almost 2 million downloads in the first week alone, raising the visibility of Chrome as a strong new competitor to Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It does a number of things differently from either, such as isolating browser tabs so that each one is treated almost like a separate instance of the browser for reliability purposes.

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