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This “too many emails?” downgrade option from chefscatalog.com is a nice way to keep people in the fold (as opposed to merely offering unsubscribe).
Google just made it a little bit easier to call ahead for reservations or order a pizza for pick-up while you’re on the go. In addition to it’s recent addition of location-based search suggestions, Google has added the ability for businesses to incl…
According to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, “millions of people now own Kindles.” Sadly, Amazon has always kept the exact number of Kindle sales under wraps. According to some analysts, consumers in the U.S. bought roughly 3 million e-readers in 2009 and …
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It’s not an unequivocal “yes,” but an awkward “no comment” from a Google product manager may indicate that touch capability is being built into Chrome OS.At an event in London at Google’s headquarters attended by …
For much of the past year, the major criticism of Foursquare was that it only worked in a few select cities in the U.S. and was basically iPhone-only. In the past few months, both Foursquare itself and a growing core of third-party developers have c…
Publicly Jason claims to be ignorant about SEO because it allows him moral flexibility and makes Google less likely to torch his site (even though he is blatantly violating their search quality guidelines, and has for *years*). But when you look at …
By saying it no longer wants to offer censored search results in China, Google hopes it could change the way the country enforces censorship laws, according to its CEO. Originally posted at Relevant Results
Chat Roulette — not sure it’s new, as I think I recall Eric Ries talking about implementing it in the early days of IMVU, but it’s still interesting: chat to a random person who also wants to chat. I wonder whether it’s being used for drive-by pho…