Rush Limbaugh was released from the hospital today and says doctors found nothing wrong. It makes you wonder if the thousands of hysterical people wishing Rush Limbaugh death on Twitter are feeling a little foolish.
Using YouTube may become a much less passive experience in the near future.
Content duplication has been a buzz topic in SEO for a while now. You can read about it til you puke and never have to leave WebProNews.com. It’s one of the modern webmaster’s favorite things to fret over and has been for at least two years. Google doesn’t like duplicate content.
The cat has at least started to come out of the bag with regards to the long-rumored “Google phone”; details about the Nexus One have been leaking for weeks.
To some degree, it’s part of a cofounder’s job to act as a corporate cheerleader; a pessimist could hurt his company by scaring people away.
Amazon.com has announced that for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books on Christmas Day. In addition, Amazon said its Kindle reader has become the most gifted item in the company’s history. The Kindle Store boasts more than 390,000 electronic books. “We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com . “On behalf of Amazon.com employees around the world, we wish everyone happy holidays and happy reading!” Amazon has not released sales figures for the Kindle, but Forrester Research estimated in October that the Kindle has close to 60 percent of the U.S. market share, followed by the Sony Reader with 35 percent. Amazon said its peak day was December 14, with customers ordering over 9.5 million items globally, which is a record breaking 110 items per second. Amazon Worldwide 2009 Holiday Facts:
Harris Interactive has released the findings of its latest poll on Internet users. This doesn’t come as much of a shock, but people are spending more time online these days. According to the poll, adult Internet users are spending an average of 13 hours a week online.” Of course, people’s usage varies greatly; one in five (20%) of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week while one in seven (14%) are spending 24 or more hours a week online,” says Harris. The firm presents the following as highlights from the poll: – The age groups that spend the most time online are those aged 30-39 (18 hours) and those aged 25-29 (17 hours) and 40-49 (17 hours). – Half (50%) of all those online bought something on the Internet in the last month.