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Facebook applications can be bad enough when they’re upfront about their identities; getting tricked into installing them is the last thing (aside from various privacy violations) that any user needs.  So Facebook is addressing this problem with some new restrictions on developers.
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Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account’s bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.The example of Rogers dropping a notice onto Google’s homepage began making the rounds yesterday. Some people called it a threat to net neutrality, which seems a [...]

Thanks to an expansion of the YouTube Partner Program, video makers’ odds of earning money on the video-sharing site just got a little better; partners will actually be included in the ad revenue-sharing process.
Of course, not every kid who kicks his friend in the crotch will get to become a partner, and as it [...]

Around two-thirds of children who say they have been bullied online have not received any previous form of harassment according to research from the University of California at Riverside published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

"Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty," Kirk Williams and Nancy Guerra of the [...]

The other day, we were talking about what makes us buy (an appropriate topic for today, the biggest shopping day in the US) and Barb Newman, our General Manager, wondered what made us impulse buy? She was trying to figure out why she had dropped way more money than she intended on a purse. Being [...]

Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
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Microsoft adCenter Adds Immediate Editorial Updates, Daily Spend LimitsThe Big Three seem to be getting closer and closer to being mirrors - [...]

Microsoft was busy over the weekend upgrading the features at adCenter. The editorial changes you make to ads will now go live immediately similar to Google and Yahoo, according to their blog.
You will also be able to establish daily spend limits for your campaigns - which will help tighten spends.
The Big Three seem to be [...]

The campaigns Microsoft advertisers manage through the company’s adCenter system should be easier to handle after a weekend of upgrades.For some reason, the adCenter bloggers are spacing out the details behind the recent round of updates to post throughout the week.
First up is the editorial upgrade, which helps people fill in everything they should for [...]

A 25 percent premium for BEA in an all-cash offer from Oracle elicited a mild chuckle from BEA’s VP of business planning and development, William Klein.$6.66 billion won’t be enough to yank BEA into the Oracle fold. After Oracle made an offer to BEA today, Klein responded with a polite letter that likely concealed a [...]

The service formerly known as Rocketmail, now with a heaping helping of Oddpost in the mix, reached a milestone anniversary this month.John Kremer, vice president for Yahoo Mail, marked the anniversary on the official Yahoo blog with a list of highlights since October 1997.
That was when Yahoo Mail launched in its first incarnation, bringing people [...]