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Facebookers Donate to Haiti

More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company. Money Leads the Way Donations of money were by far the most popular type of aid  [...]

Sprite Experiments With YouTube Series: 'Green Eyed World'

Coca-Cola-owned Sprite is hopping on the reality show bus with an interactive YouTube channel called "Green Eyed World," which will feature Facebook integration, writes The Wall Street Journal. Sprite decided to try reaching out to teens with two things they love most - social media and music - and to use the message of pursuing passions as the driving force behind the campaign. The series, which will f  [...]

Google, NASA to Launch Singularity University

Google, NASA and a number of other science and tech giants are combining forces to start a school, Singularity University. Its objective will be to solve "humanity's grand challenges" -- a manifesto reminiscent of the ambitious one Ezra Cornell posed for Cornell University: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Taking after the International Space University, the school avails a number of cutting-edge tech  [...]

World Internet Audience Tops 1B; China Has Most Visitors

The global internet audience surged past the one-billion mark in December 2008, fueled by users in China -- the largest online population in the world -- and the Asia Pacific region, accounting for over two-fifths of total visitors, according to World Metrix data released by comScore.   [...]

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Typical SocNetters Address 110 People/Week; Spend $101 Online/Month

With 40 million active users in the US, social networking has grown 93% since 2006 -- and is poised to play a vital role in the current economic downturn, according to a trend report from Netpop Research LLC. Crucially, Netpop also predicts a related increase in social media advertising opportunities, MarketingCharts   [...]

Israeli Gov't Holds First Twitter Press Conference

On Dec. 30, microblogging service Twitter hosted its first governmental press conference on behalf of Israel's Defense Forces -- whose microblogging tag was @IsraelConsulate. Questions and answers were limited to 140 characters, the standard length of a Twitter message or "tweet." So even answers to the most complex questions -- about which entire books have been written -- had to be short and swe  [...]

Indian Gov May Censor Google Earth

Following last month's terrorist situation in Mumbai, legal advocates in India demand that the country's High Court implement a "blur" on certain locations featured in Google Earth. Earlier this week it was revealed that the terrorists used a number of so-called "new" technologies, includi  [...]

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Google Zeitgeist Unearths Global Interest in Socializing, Politics

Equipped with data from over 30 countries, the objective of Google's Year-End Zeitgeist is to hone in on topics of global interest. In 2008, "Sarah Palin," "Beijing 2008" and "Facebook login" topped the fastest-rising topics worldwide: Meanwhile, top-of-min  [...]

Economist Gives World a Vote in US Presidential Election

London-based business rag The Economist has created a global version of the US Electoral College, based on the population of each country. The magazine hopes to stimulate online brand engagement through the effort, which leverages overseas interest in the US election -- a "closely watched contest" worldwide, said VP Ron Diorio of product and community development in New York. "We thought it would be fun and a bit of an educa  [...]

Shoppers Primed for a New World of Shopping Experiences

Biometric fingerprint payments, intelligent shopping carts, holographic sales assistance, and interactive dressing rooms are among the top shopping experience innovations foreseen by shoppers, finds a TNS Retail Forward study, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]

iGoogle Gadget-Maker: Now in 42 Languages

Google has announced its iGoogle Gadget Maker is now available in all 42 Google-supported languages. iGoogle is the name of Google's customizable homepage, accessible in the upper right-hand corner of Google.com when users are logged into GMail. Last year iGoogle gave non-programmers the ability to cre  [...]

Digital Music Sales Near $3B, Don't Offset Low CD Sales

Music sold online and via mobile rose from zero to an estimated $2.9 billion -- or 15 percent of industry sales -- in the last five years, making music more digitally advanced than any entertainment sector besides games, according to a report from the international music industry, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

Intel Splits from $100 Laptop Project

Intel has pulled out of the Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), reasoning that the OLPC wanted an exclusivity commitment against rival offerings. Intel promotes its own low-cost laptop, the Classmate, in many of the same countries as OLPC, reports BBC News. Intel's Clas  [...]

China's Online Youth Lead US Counterparts in Digital Self-Expression

Millions of young Chinese are embracing the internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions. Almost five times as many Chinese as Americans surveyed said they have a parallel life online (61 percent vs. 13 percent), according to a survey of Chinese and American youth released today by IAC and JWT, reports   [...]

Google Earth Populates Street Views with YouTube Videos

Google announced the addition of location-specific YouTube videos to its Google Earth app. Wired's Epicenter tested it and found a good amount of videos already in place in Bangkok, "including videos from tourists on a boat cruising down the Chao Phraya river." Other location-specific features include "locationally-linked photos, 3D buildings," and content piped in from partners like Di  [...]

Facebook Surfers Cost Australian Enterprises $4B

Facebook surfers are costing Australian companies billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. According to internet security company SurfControl, there are more than 230,000 Australians already signed up on Facebook, and more than 100 new users sign up per hour, writes Reuters (  [...]

Luxury Consumers: What Counts Are Experiences, Not Things

Luxury consumers in the US and much of Western Europe are remarkably similar in many ways, especially in the emphasis they place on experiences rather than ownership, according to a report by the Consumer Research Center of The Conference Board, MarketingCharts writes. "The largest share of luxury consumers (44 percent)  [...]

OLPC Bestows Porn onto Guileless Third World Masses

With what can perhaps only be called an unexpected outcome of the greater good, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has inadvertently brought pornography to primary schools the world over. At least, that's what the News Agency of Nigeria says, reports TechCrunch. A report from the agency finds laptops at a primary school in Abuja "have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult site  [...]

iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. What About Windows Mobile 6?

While Apple's iPhone enjoys mountains of hype and steady sales since its launch last month, Microsoft has taken a different approach to the mobile market. At Microsoft's Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX, designers, engineers and strategists toil together with the goal of making handhelds as intuitive for users as possible, reports USA Today.  [...]