Twitter’s First Trending Topics Appears As Advertisement For Toy Story 3

Twitter‘s new ad platform has been a little slow to roll out. Promoted Tweets are already in the system, but those popular trending topics have only today been penetrated by ads. On Twitter’s homepage, the right-hand column that houses the trending topics now includes an eleventh in the list: Toy Story 3, branded with a prominent yellow button. Clicking the link brings up a search for “Toy Story 3,” and the top result is always a Promoted Tweet...

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WordPress 3.0 Is Finally Available

This is one of the major releases, and as a consequence many new features were introduced. For example, the default theme has been changed, there are developer APIs now, the admin interface was updated and so on. You can watch the video below to get an idea of what is n...

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FaceBook Earned 800$ Million In 2009 Says A Report

Facebook’s revenue in 2009 was nearly $800 million, and the company turned a part of it into a solid net profit, according to Reuters. The number is significantly higher than earlier estimates of $500 million revenue in 2009, and even the projected $710 million revenue in 2010. Facebook, as usual, declines to comment on any of these numbers, but we know that somewhere in 2009. Facebook became cash-flow positive. “They are downplaying their performance. There’s no upside in getting people’s expectations high, it’s always better to go low,” said one of Reuters’ sources. It could be true: if Facebook is heading towards an IPO,...

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