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Mindshapes Hires Publishing Industry Veterans Gaffin and Michaels - prMac (press release)

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 12:13pm CET by Google Inc.

Mindshapes Hires Publishing Industry Veterans Gaffin and Michaels
prMac (press release)
Deb Gaffin is Vice President, Marketing and Chris Michaels is Managing Director of Magic Town, the first virtual world for children based on popular picture books. Magic Town launches in March. Deb Gaffin will oversee branding, consumer insights, ...

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Huizenkopers gaan makelaars beoordelen

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 10:59am CET by Erwin Boogert

Funda.nl werkt aan een nieuw siteonderdeel waarbij klanten beoordelingen gaan schrijven over makelaars. Het kaf wordt van het koren gescheiden op een markt die onder druk staat.
Centraal Boekhuis verdubbelt distributie e-books

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 10:30am CET by Redactie Emerce

Centraal Boekhuis (CB) verzorgde in 2011 de distributie van meer dan 740.000 e-books, een verdubbeling vergeleken met 2010. Dit jaar wordt weer een dubbele omzet verwacht..
Fors verlies voor Sony Ericsson

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 10:03am CET by Redactie Emerce

Het vierde kwartaal van 2011 was geen zegen voor Sony Ericsson. De fabrikant van mobiele telefoons boekte 317 miljoen dollar verlies, deels ook vanwege een reorganisatie.
Grooveshark: auf Wiedersehen!

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:30am CET by Redactie Emerce

Muzieksite Grooveshark is niet meer bereikbaar vanuit Duitsland. De dienst beperkt de toegang vanwege te hoge licentiekosten.

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3DegreesNation.com - Make New Friends

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:14am CET

3Degrees is a service that lets you find new friends based on the ones you've already have on Facebook. 3Degrees can look at who your friends' friends are, and based on where they live and their interests recommend them to you. In this way, 3Degrees lets you harness the power that comes from having all the people you trust as friends on Facebook.

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SaleSpread.com - Sell Unused Leads

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:09am CET

Having customers you can't use is no good. But suppose you could have them swapped for customers that you can use, as if they were an item that you exchange for other on any online marketplace. That'd be a perfect solution for a problem that most businessmen have to face on a daily basis, and that's never easy to deal with.

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Limitedpix.com - Sell Your Photos

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:08am CET

There's many online communities for photographers and digital artists already available, and I wouldn't blame you if you questioned if we really need any more. Just earlier this week I
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ApplyCorner.com - Apply To School

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:05am CET

A site like this one is all you need if you're about to apply to the school of your dreams. Not only will ApplyCorner.com guide you through the whole process step by step and tell you how to fill the different forms that you will face, the provided application manager can also remind you about deadlines.

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The virtual world shows its real-time clout - Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:03am CET by Google Inc.

Foreign Policy (blog)

The virtual world shows its real-time clout
Philadelphia Inquirer
Clearly, that's not a workable approach to what is a critical issue of protecting content providers in the online world. In fact, it was enough to raise White House concerns over the weekend, prompting a warning over "legislation that reduces freedom ...
SOPA, PIPA, and OpenSimHypergrid Business
SOPA And PIPA Support Begins Decline After Virtual ProtestOlogy
SOPA, China, and the World's Smallest ViolinForeign Policy (blog)
New York Times (blog) -RT -Deadline.com
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BookYourKidsParty.com - Professional Kids Entertainment

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 9:03am CET

Serving Long Island, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Southern Westchester, Professional Kids Entertainment (PKE) is your one stop-resource for making kids events come alive. These can be everything from birthday parties, communions and block parties to all kind of school events. This family-owned company provides you with all the characters and supplies to create a truly memorable party for all the children in attendance.

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Mobiel betaalvolume PayPal vervijfvoudigd

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 8:44am CET by Erwin Boogert

Betaaldienst PayPal heeft in 2011 voor vijf miljard dollar aan mobiele betalingen verwerkt. Dat is aanzienlijk meer dan moederbedrijf eBay verwachtte. In totaal verwerkte het concern negen miljard dollar een mobiele handel en betalingen.
Ook Shell met iPad-tijdschrift

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 8:34am CET by Jan Libbenga

Shell heeft een interactief iPad-tijdschrift ontwikkeld dat centraal komt te staan in een internationale campagne van het energiebedrijf. De Nederlandse mobile marketing-specialist MobGen verzorgde het design.
Tablet geliefd, maar vergeet de webwinkel-app

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 7:11am CET by Jan Libbenga

Nooit eerder hebben zoveel consumenten de tablet gebruikt voor aankopen met kerst. Maar voor een webwinkel-app bestaat geen belangstelling.
Online pokerfraudeur bekent schuld

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 7:10am CET by Jan Libbenga

Een Amerikaan heeft schuld bekend aan het witwassen van vele tientallen miljoenen dollars afkomstig van illegale Amerikaanse online pokersites. Ira Rubin (53) riskeert 18 tot 24 maanden gevangenisstraf voor het wegsluizen van geld van pokersites Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker en PokerStars, die vorig jaar door de FBI zijn opgerold. Om het geld bij Amerikaanse [...]
‘Mediabeleving niet echt veranderd’

Posted: January 19th, 2012, 7:04am CET by Jan Libbenga

Hoewel het medialandschap de afgelopen jaren flink is opgeschud door de komst van mobiele telefoons en tablets, is het gedrag van consumenten niet wezenlijk veranderd. Dat blijkt uit het Mediabelevingsonderzoek van TNS NIPO.

Google News - virtual world

Katy Perry Dives Into The Virtual World As A Sim (PHOTOS) - Global Grind

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 11:04pm CET by Google Inc.

Ology

Katy Perry Dives Into The Virtual World As A Sim (PHOTOS)
Global Grind
The ink has just dried on Katy Perry's deal to launch a line of false eyelashes, and the pop singer is gearing up to travel into the virtual world - as a Sim! Katy doesn't need to turn to reality television to get her time on screen. ...
Picture This: Katy Perry Living In Virtual RealityOlogy
Sims to get Katy Perry's helpCNN
Katy Perry Taking Over 'The Sims' WorldGather Celebs News Channel
AceShowbiz -Musicrooms.net -SAFM (blog)
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GroupShot.com - Perfect Family Shots

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 8:10pm CET

Available on the App Store for $0.99 (
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Virtual Collaboration and Training Comes to Life Sciences Organizations - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 8:08pm CET by Google Inc.

Virtual Collaboration and Training Comes to Life Sciences Organizations
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“Life sciences organizations are some of the most innovative and progressive companies in the world today,” says Ron Burns, CEO of ProtonMedia. “Faced with the constant challenge of delivering higher levels of engagement while reducing overall costs, ...

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Beepl.com - Interesting Questions And Answers

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:24pm CET

After being in closed beta for three months, Beepl has become publicly available. Beepl is a social site where you can ask questions, and have them answered by people who really know their stuff. And Beepl works in a way that's really different from other Q & A answer websites such as
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Pomodroido.com - Android App For Pomodoro

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 6:03pm CET

Different people manage their time in different ways. You might be more productive during the daytime, you might work better in the night. You might prefer to work non-stop for four hours, take a 45-minute break and then finish what you were doing in another sitting.

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MapKnitter.org - Create Aerial Maps

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 3:38pm CET

MapKnitter is a different way to show other how well you know your own neighborhood, or any area that for any reason or the other you've got to known like the palm of your hand. This site lets you create aerial maps by combining these photos that you have taken yourself, or that you can find on the Internet. You take these pictures, and then have them placed inside of a Google Map.

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VakantieVeilingen.nl gaat kaartjes veilen via Facebook

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 3:18pm CET by Jan Libbenga

VakantieVeilingen.nl biedt vanaf vandaag kaartjes voor Toppers in Concert 2012 via Facebook aan. Het is voor het eerst dat tickets worden geveild binnen het sociale netwerk.

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ShareTheFoodOnline.com - Social Site For Foodies

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 2:56pm CET

A social network for people who love food and who are always looking for new recipes and for a chance to share the ones they already know, ShareTheFoodOnline.com is free to join and use. Eight main food categories are provided: "Wine", "Coffee", "Cheeses", "Desserts", "Fruit", "Pasta", "Bread" and "Vegetables".

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Worlds Inc. Receives Fifth "Virtual Worlds" Patent - Marketwire (press release)

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 2:17pm CET by Google Inc.

Worlds Inc. Receives Fifth "Virtual Worlds" Patent
Marketwire (press release)
This is the fifth patent in Worlds' intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The patent relates to computer architecture for three-dimensional graphical multi-user interactive virtual world systems. Worlds believes it is particularly noteworthy that the ...

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UPC test mobiel internet voor consumenten

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 1:55pm CET by Jan Libbenga

Kabelbedrijf UPC rondt een kleine test af met mobiel internet voor consumenten. Zo'n 450 klanten van de kabelaar hebben al in december een simkaart voor het netwerk van Vodafone gekregen.
Mobiel adverteren door het dak

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 1:20pm CET by Jan Libbenga

Het aantal advertentie-impressies op mobiele apparaten is afgelopen jaar wereldwijd met 488 procent gestegen. Dat heeft mobiele advertentieverkoper InMobi berekend.
Management uitdagingen bij social media implementatie

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 1:07pm CET by Thijs Sprangers

Hoe overtuig je het management van de noodzaak het sociale web te omarmen? Een vraag zonder eenduidig antwoord, want hij hangt samen met meerdere management uitdagingen. Fons Trompenaars onderzoekt deze uitdagingen en bespreekt de resultaten op The Social Conference 2012.

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India joins war against the virtual world - Aljazeera.com

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:45pm CET by Google Inc.

Aljazeera.com

India joins war against the virtual world
Aljazeera.com
The virtual had started threatening the real world and a generation strived to marry the two," says Sandeep Kalhan, CEO, GTS Technologies, Gurgaon. The Indian Government is the latest to join the war against the virtual world. A court in India, ...

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Army's Virtual Reality Plan: A Digital Doppelganger for Every Soldier - Wired News

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:31pm CET by Google Inc.

Army's Virtual Reality Plan: A Digital Doppelganger for Every Soldier
Wired News
As the military's enthusiasm for virtual reality training continues to grow, the Army's got a new plan to make the programs freakily immersive: National Defense magazine is reporting that the Army wants to give every soldier a digital doppelganger — a ...
US Army avatars under discussionCBS News

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Emerce Nieuws

Google-actie rond merkartikelen Truus.nl

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 11:51am CET by Redactie Emerce

Online winkel Truus.nl begint samen met zijn leveranciers een grote online promotiecampagne rond het bestellen van huishoud- en verzorgingsartikelen. Voor het eerst werken merken samen.
Forse groei bezoekers Spil Games

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 11:07am CET by Redactie Emerce

Spil Games zag het aantal maandelijkse unieke bezoekers van zijn social-gaming platforms in de maand december 2011 stijgen naar 170 miljoen.
Fiege hofdistributeur Media Markt

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 11:00am CET by Jan Libbenga

De Duitse logistieke dienstverlener Fiege verzorgt exclusief de distributie van artikelen die bij de maandag geopende Duitse website van Media Markt worden besteld. De opdracht komt voort uit de activiteiten van Fiege voor het bedrijf in Nederland.

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ThDstrct.com - Network For DC Creatives

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:28am CET

Niche social sites and communities have been around for a long time. None has become a wild sensation, but the people who are part of them always find what they can't find on Facebook: the knowledge that every other person who is part of the network shares a lot of common ground and interests with them. They aren't friends with every other person on the site, but they wouldn't mind being.

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6Scan.com - Protect Your Site From Hackers

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:27am CET

If there's something that young webmasters and bloggers have a true right to complain about is how insanely complicated security suites often are. Sure, they work like wonder. But they're so complex that a person who's new to it all is going to feel frustrated when trying to do something as basic as protecting the site or blog he'll be putting all his energies into.

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MailDiary.net - Write A Diary

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:26am CET

The hardest part of writing a diary is actually keeping it up. The way it goes, other things always end up getting in the way. Most of all, you often are too tired to sit down and write all that has happened to you at the end of the day.

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AlbumsToPDF.com - Albums To PDF

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:25am CET

The way Facebook works, you can easily share albums even with people you're not friends with. And you can do that in a breeze, actually. Every album comes with a link at the bottom that you can send to the ones you want to see your photos.

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NotificationControl.com - Control Email Notifications

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:25am CET

Inspired by MyPermissions.org (a tool that lets you clean your app permissions), NotificationControl.

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Nuon gaat onderdelen dochter online veilen

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 10:00am CET by Redactie Emerce

Energiebedrijf Nuon kan zijn dochter Helianthos niet aan de straatstenen kwijt. De oplossing: opbod bij verkoop, maar dan wel online.
PayPal praat kabelaars bij over ‘t-commerce’

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 8:50am CET by Erwin Boogert

PayPal spreekt met Nederlandse kabelaars over de integratie van zijn betaaldienst in toekomstige vormen van digitale televisie.
Jerry Yang verlaat Yahoo

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:20am CET by Jan Libbenga

Jerry Yang, een van de twee oprichters van Yahoo, verlaat het bedrijf na 17 jaar. "De tijd is gekomen om andere belangen buiten Yahoo na te streven."
RTL lanceert iPad krant

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:14am CET by Jan Libbenga

RTL lanceert morgen een interactieve iPad krant rond RTL Nieuws, RTL Sport en RTL Boulevard. Emerce kreeg afgelopen week al een preview te zien.
7000 websites protesteren tegen piratenwet

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 7:00am CET by Jan Libbenga

Minstens zevenduizend websites nemen vandaag deel aan een massaal protest tegen de omstreden Amerikaanse SOPA-wetgeving. De behandeling van het wetsvoorstel is intussen een maand vertraagd.

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Brad Paisley Serves Virtual Reality During Minnesota Concert - CMT.com

Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:53am CET by Google Inc.

CMT.com

Brad Paisley Serves Virtual Reality During Minnesota Concert
CMT.com
Brad Paisley served up a double dose of virtual reality Saturday night (Jan. 14) in St. Paul. First, he stopped by Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show at the 1000-seat Fitzgerald Theater. Mr. CMA Co-Host sat in with the house band, ...
Brad Paisley Kicks Off New Tour With Three Sold-Out ShowsAll Access Music Group
Paisley sells out first weekend of tourCountry Standard Time

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DirectSnap.com - Pages For College Football Players

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 7:45pm CET

Twitter is ready-made for the fans of most sports, what with the quick and safe way it lets them speak their minds in real time. And College football is no exception, with hundreds of thousands of fans turning to Twitter daily to share the way they feel about everything. And that includes these stars who are rising from the ranks.

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meetOOu.com - Share Your Knowledge And Earn Money

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:53pm CET

A new marketplace where knowledge is bought and sold, on meetOOu you can connect with people who can teach you these things you've always wanted to know at a price you can meet. And also, to market your skills and profit from your knowledge. The site works in both ways, with you being able to connect with others over live video.

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ResumeWebsite.org - Create A Resume Website

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:26pm CET

You've got a tidy and neat Facebook profile, the kind that's sure to make employers have a really good idea of what a committed person you are. And yet, you don't get even half as many job offers as you know you should be getting. Why's that happening? What is it that talent seekers seem to be looking for? Do they need further proof that you're really serious and dedicated? Well, do even more than just having a Facebook profile to show them.

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Virtual Exercise Games Help Elderly Remain Mentally Sharp - TIME

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 5:23pm CET by Google Inc.

TIME

Virtual Exercise Games Help Elderly Remain Mentally Sharp
TIME
By both riding the bike and concentrating on navigating their virtual world, says Anderson-Haney, the participants benefited from engaging both the bodies and their brains. Each group rode the bikes for an average of 45 minutes, three times a week for ...

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AromaWebDesign.com - Canadian Web Design Company

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:50pm CET

Based in the city of Vancouver, Aroma Web Design is made up of a team of highly-skilled professionals that can make the most difficult of concepts come true. The company can create custom website designs and provide print branding services to its clients, along with the development of custom PHP website applications. And its services also include full maintenance for each and every site that it creates, so that if you go for Aroma Web Design's services you're also having your site updated for as long as it's up and running.

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Blockbuster sluit videowinkels

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:45pm CET by Redactie Emerce

De eigenaar van de Amerikaanse videoverhuurketen Blockbuster ziet er geen brood meer in. Een groot deel van de winkels gaat dicht en de rest wordt een klantservicepunt.

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Mapitat.com - Find Places To Rent

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:02pm CET

Mapitat is here to make it easier for everybody to find a place to rent that they can afford, and that they also really like. Finding rentals can take so long that I'm sure you can tell a good couple of stories of friends who ended up renting places out of sheer frustration. Well, this new site is here to prevent such a thing from ever happening to you.

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Adverteren op Facebook duurder

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:00pm CET by Jan Libbenga

Adverteren op Facebook wordt steeds duurder. Maar adverteerders die bezoekers naar hun eigen Facebookfanpagina verwijzen, krijgen forse kortingen.
BeBook gered door BAS Group

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 2:12pm CET by Redactie Emerce

De producten onder de naam BeBook van Endless Ideas worden overgenomen door BAS Group, eigenaar van de winkelketens Dixons, MyCom en Dynabyte.
Verkoop datingsite Parship afgeblazen

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 2:01pm CET by Erwin Boogert

De Duitse uitgeverij Holtzbrinck heeft datingsite Parship uit de etalage gehaald. De vraagprijs werd, naar verluidt, niet geboden.
Nieuwe hoofdredacteur voor Webwereld

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:59pm CET by Erwin Boogert

De chef-redactie van Nu.nl, Wieland van Dijk, wordt per 1 maart de nieuwe hoofdredacteur van de IT-tiels Webwereld en Computerworld.
Grote belangstelling voor onlinediensten Essent

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:12pm CET by Jan Libbenga

Energiemaatschappij Essent meldt dat de gratis VerbruiksManager app 60.000 keer is gedownload. Daarnaast is de op afstand bedienbare E-thermostaat meer dan 2.000 keer besteld.
Omzet bol.com groeit naar 376 miljoen euro

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 12:40pm CET by Erwin Boogert

Bol.com zag zijn omzet in 2011 met 18 procent groeien tot 376 miljoen euro. Een op de twee Nederlanders die online winkels, kocht er vorig jaar iets. Directeur Daniël Ropers verwacht, dat de lokale e-commercemarkt groeit tot tientallen miljarden euro’s. “We zijn nog maar net begonnen."
Salesforce haalt grote vis binnen

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 12:00pm CET by Redactie Emerce

Vivek Kundra, tot voor kort de belangrijkste IT-adviseur van het Witte Huis, gaat klantrelatiebeheerbedrijf Salesforce.com versterken. Hij gaat zich bezighouden met 'opkomende landen'.
Matige opmars van NFC in huishoudens

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 11:00am CET by Erwin Boogert

De draadloze communicatietechnologie NFC is een hype in de mobiele telecomsector. De fabrikanten van consumentenelektronica volgen de hippe trend vooralsnog schoorvoetend.
Blunder internetbankieren duur betaald

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 10:00am CET by Jan Libbenga

Een bedrijf dat via Rabo Internetbankieren per abuis geld had overgemaakt naar een verkeerd, inmiddels gefailleerde onderneming, kan zich niet beroepen op de zorgplicht van de bank. Dat heeft de rechtbank Alkmaar bepaald.

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Citelighter.com - Highlight Web Pages

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 9:15am CET

A highlighter for the Internet. That's the best way in which we could define this new web tool. If you're a student or a person who's researching just any kind of topic online then you can use this application in to highlight all the content that is worth capturing.

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Instabuck.com - Sell Digital Content

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 9:09am CET

Selling your own digital content is as easy as 1-2-3 with the help of a service like Instabuck. Simply put, it lets you sell ebooks, music, designs and all kind of digital products online. Instabuck handles all the technical bits.

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NetMaxx.com - Buy Premium Wordpress Themes

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 9:07am CET

A provider of premium Wordpress themes, NetMaxx.com is where you can get all you need to have a blog whose design will encourage visitors to stick around and delve deep into your content. NetMaxx collects nothing but the best looking premium themes that money can buy.

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BoatHistoryReport.com - Check The Background Of Boats

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 9:05am CET

Do never buy a boat without taking the time to visit a site like this one first. As its name says, BoatHistoryReport.com lets you know all there is to know about any used boat.

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TwitDrip.com - Schedule Your Tweets

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 9:03am CET

Visit this site if you're going away on vacation next week and the thought of not posting a single tweet while you're away makes you feel uneasy. TwitDrip is a new service that will surely stop all your worrying. It basically lets you schedule tweets for any time in the future.

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TradeTracker: uitbetalen binnen een dag

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 8:45am CET by Erwin Boogert

Affiliatenetwerk TradeTracker brengt de uitbetalingstermijn aan publishers sterk terug. Binnen een en maximaal zeven dagen na goedkeuring krijgen de sitebeheerders het geld overgemaakt.
Steeds meer huishoudens hebben twee tablets

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 7:15am CET by Erwin Boogert

Vijf procent van de huishoudens koopt in 2012 zijn tweede tabletcomputer. Dat kan een grote, dure zijn of een uit de nieuwe generatie tabs van onder de tweehonderd dollar. Daarvan zullen er dit jaar veel verschijnen.
EU worstelt met herziening privacywet

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 7:10am CET by Jan Libbenga

Het EU-voorstel voor de herziening van de huidige Privacy Richtlijn ligt onder vuur. Het concept dat eind deze maand zou worden gepubliceerd is vertraagd. Binnen de EU zelf bestaat de vrees dat de concept verordening significant negatieve effecten zal hebben op de ontwikkeling van de digitale economie.

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Academic Research Paper on OpenSim Community

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 7:00am CET by Lowell Cremorne

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Robin Teigland, Paul Di Gangi, and Zeynep Yetis recently finished an academic paper based on their research of the OpenSim Community. Below is the abstract. If you have any questions about their research, please do not hesistate to contact them.Setting the Stage: Exploring Sustainability of a Private-collective Community
Abstract
While the nature of the firm has long been established as the dominant form of organizing for value creation, emergent forms of organizing such as the private-collective community model have recently gained attention from researchers and practitioners. Little is known about how such communities, where private goods from stakeholders are shared and freely distributed among a public collective, sustain themselves. The purpose of this research is to examine how the resources, stakeholders, and overarching network structure in which these are embedded influence the sustainability of the community. Using semi-structured interviews, archival data, and social network analysis, we explore these items in detail and provide initial findings from an ongoing research study of the OpenSim community. We conclude with future directions, expected contributions, and the limitations of this line of research.

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Rod Humble (and I) talk SL on Australian radio about Second Life

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 10:36pm CET by Lowell Cremorne

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An interesting morning, with Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble and myself being invited to appear on the Kyle and Jackie O show.

For Australian readers, you’ve probably heard about Kyle Sandilands in particular, so I went into the interview with eyes wide open on how balanced the interview would be.

As expected it was a predictable angle, paraphrased as “Hey, look at those freaky people who give up their life to go into Second Life”. That said, Kyle Sandilands was the comparative voice of reason out of the two hosts, at least keeping an open mind.

It’s worth a listen to hear how Linden Lab’s CEO deals with a tabloid approach to Second Life. Not surprisingly the piece opens with Sissy, a self-proclaimed SL addict. Have a listen for yourself and here’s a link to 2Day FM’s podcast of 17th January. It did make the cut – as predicted, sex pose balls make for good listening in the tabloid world.
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Column: Discovery is de nieuwe search

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 8:45pm CET by Steven Lammertink

Mijn vader heeft een Volvo P1800E uit ‘71. Voor velen een herinnering aan de beroemde serie The Saint. Met een beetje geluk mag ik er af en toe een stukje in rijden. En tussen het ondernemen door, biedt dat veel voldoening.

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Leadfans.com - Get Facebook Fans

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 7:05pm CET

Everybody knows what you should do if you want to get fans for any Facebook page you've created. You have to sit down and promote it, promote it and promote it for days on end. That's no secret.

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Hitpost.com - Talk With Sports Fans

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 6:22pm CET

Hitpost is a new team of mobile developers that has just released its very first product. It's named OnSports, and we can define it as an application for these sports fans that like to get really involved with games. You know, the ones who start hollering whenever the ref's whistle is heard, and who can't celebrate a victory if that doesn't mean waking up all the people in a five-mile radius.

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Bol.com publiceert open API

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:17pm CET by Erwin Boogert

Bol.com publiceert een API waarmee externe ontwikkelaars van sites en mobiele apps informatie van bol.com in hun eigen uitgaves kunnen verwerken.

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Lifecrowd.com - Find New Things To Do

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 4:02pm CET

There's ways and ways to pick up new skills. Some people choose to read magazines and books about what they want to learn from front to back. And others (the more adventuresome kind) could think of nothing better than going out and doing it.

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‘Patenten Apple Siri eigendom werknemer Google’

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:40pm CET by Erwin Boogert

De patentenstrijd tussen Apple en Google krijgt mogelijk een nieuwe wending. Een Amerikaanse columnist biedt Google een juridisch breekijzer waarvan het bedrijf vermoedelijk zelf het bestaan niet kende.
Heb jij een succesvolle Facebookpagina?

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:31pm CET by Roxanne Meiners

Bedrijven verspillen tijd en geld wanneer ze proberen mensen online te bereiken zonder te beseffen dat velen het vervelend vinden dat grote merken hun sociale netwerken overspoelen. Wil jij weten of je Facebookpagina een succes is?

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Reshq.com - Online Appointments Scheduler

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:29pm CET

If you run an appointments-based business, there's a better way to handle bookings than doing everything manually and hoping you don't book two different people for the very same slot. Which is what happens sooner or later, for the simple fact that you (and your employees) are only human, and mistakes like these can't be avoided at the end of a particularly tricky day. But good luck trying to explain that to an angry customer who's traveled for the best part of an hour just to get to your venue.

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‘Apps als voorbeeld voor prijsbeleid e-boeken’

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:00pm CET by Erwin Boogert

Uitgevers van digitale boeken moeten een voorbeeld nemen aan publishers van mobiele apps. Ze moeten veel lagere prijzen gaan hanteren om de markt voor digitale boeken op gang te krijgen.

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ClimateFinder.com - Online Weather Search

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 2:54pm CET

Check this site before deciding where you'll spend your holidays. ClimateFinder.com lets you know how the weather is in any part of the world, in a way that's really intuitive.

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Spaanse travelbranche kijkt vooruit in de tijd met Google

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 2:09pm CET by Erwin Boogert

Organisaties in de Spaanse toerismesector gaan een maand vooruit in de tijd kijken. Zij krijgen een nieuw soort data van de BBVA-bank die zijn bronnen combineert met trendgegevens van Google.
HBO-programmering Ziggo start volgende maand

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 12:48pm CET by Jan Libbenga

Kabelaar Ziggo gaat al vanaf 9 februari 2012 Home Box Office (HBO) premium kanalen in HD aanbieden. Het is het eerste concrete resultaat van de samenwerking die al langer in de pijplijn zat, maar door de EU moest worden goedgekeurd.
Citigroup: afname sms-gebruik zal KPN hard raken

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 11:59am CET by Erwin Boogert

De mobiele aanbieders KPN, Belgacom en Telefónica moeten de echte klappen van dalend sms-gebruik nog gaan voelen. Een analist van Citigroup denkt dat dat dit jaar gebeurt.
Online display Eredivisie Live naar WebAds

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 11:27am CET by Redactie Emerce

Het Amsterdamse WebAds gaat de online display en rich media advertentieverkoop voor Eredivisie Live verzorgen. In combinatie met VI en Voetbal.nl biedt WebAds hiermee het grootste voetbalnetwerk van Nederland voor display advertenties.
Muziekdienst Rdio gearriveerd in Europa

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 11:00am CET by Jan Libbenga

Streaming audio-dienst Rdio is in Europa neergestreken. De Amerikaanse site is vanaf nu ook in Duitsland beschikbaar.
Online platform voor Belgische startups

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 10:00am CET by Redactie Emerce

Belgische startups die op zoek zijn naar geld, kunnen voortaan terecht bij het online platform BetaInvest van de BetaGroup. Daar worden startende ondernemers gekoppeld aan business angels.

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Rocketr.com - Online Collaboration For Teams

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:12am CET

Rocketr is a new application that makes it easy to work with others online. By using this app, you'll be able to create an unlimited number of virtual workspaces, and assign as many editors as you want to each one of these. They'll monitor the work that's being done by all of the authors that are working on your project, and if there's anything that should be changed then they'll tell authors in real time about that.

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Hitch.me - Date People On LinkedIn

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:09am CET

Some say that the strongest romantic relationships are the ones which are born in workplaces, and if you agree with that then I've got the perfect site for you. Hitch.me is a new service that has LinkedIn turned into a dating network, no less.

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Signsquid.com - Sign Contracts Online

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:07am CET

Signing up legal documents online is slowly becoming accepted by all the people who previously would dismiss doing such a thing out of hand. We have to thank applications like Signsquid for that. Signsquid makes for signing contracts on your browser in a way that's both fast and secure.

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Calepin.co - Blog Using Dropbox

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:05am CET

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HotFreeBooks.com - Read Free Books

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:03am CET

With more than 20,000 titles that you can read straight on your browser, HotFreeBooks is the kind of site you can't afford to miss if your take your literature seriously. The site's database goes from American classics like Huckleberry Finn to the latest manuals and essays on fields such as psychoanalysis. If you already know what you want to read, then you can look it up either by author or by title.

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Ashton Kutcher investeert in Nederlandse startup

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 9:00am CET by Erwin Boogert

Acteur Ashton Kutcher geeft geld voor aandelen in een nieuw Nederlands bedrijf in Berlijn. De Amerikaan behoort tot de eerste externe investeerders in Gidsy.
Forse stijging bestedingen zoekmarketing

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 8:00am CET by Jan Libbenga

De bestedingen aan zoekmarketing zullen de komende tijd wereldwijd fors stijgen. In Europa loopt vooral Engeland voorop, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van EfficientFrontier.
Analyse kijkgedrag web-tv nu in minuten

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 7:14am CET by Erwin Boogert

Stichting Kijkonderzoek verfijnt de rapportages voor kijkgedrag van web-tv aanzienlijk. Ze onderzoekt nu tot de minuut nauwkeurig hoe lang Nederlandse kijkers naar on demand tv van publieke en commerciële omroepen kijken.
Groeiend verzet tegen personalisering zoekresultaten Google

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 7:03am CET by Jan Libbenga

Belangenorganisatie Electronic Privacy Information Center overweegt een klacht in te dienen bij de Amerikaanse toezichthouder FTC over de koppeling tussen zoekresultaten van Google en persoonlijke data uit profielensite GooglePlus. Ook Twitter is allerminst gelukkig met deze optie.

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If console games are Hollywood blockbusters, social games are soap operas

Posted: January 16th, 2012, 6:31am CET by justingibbs

With the console game business dropping off a cliff (sales plummeting 20% in December and 8% for the year) many developers are fleeing to the social games space. Seems like a logical move however most freely admit to not liking social games. Some even go so far as to explain their move as a chance to “make them real games” such as Philip Holt, co-founder of social gaming startup Row Sham Bow.

“What we want to focus on are things that have frustrated us as gamers on social games, one of which is that they’re highly compulsive, but not very compelling. They’re just not the kinds of experiences that we long to play on that platform,” he said.

What Holt and others should understand is that social games are the equivalent of soap operas. It’s like packing up the car and driving out to Hollywood with the dream of making movies but only finding jobs making soap operas.

If soap opera jobs are the only ones available what is one to do? Well make soap operas more, make them movies. How long do you think you would last in the soap opera business doing this? The soap opera audience might really enjoy movies too but Monday afternoon they’re looking for something different – they’re looking for the unbelievable twists and turns, the cheesy relationships, the bad acting. Introduce aspects that are more akin to movies and the audience might rise up in revolt or just find something else to watch.

What happens when Holt and his brethren introduce aspects of “real games” into social games?

“We want to innovate in gameplay, and one of the key areas we tried to do this in Woodland Heroes is we wanted the result of a player’s decision to matter in the game. There should be a loss state. You should feel that the stakes are high, so you take it more seriously. There’s a level of engagement you have when you go, ‘Oh crap, what do I do here?’ That, I think, is a fundamental tenet of what makes a good game,” said Holt. “A lot of games on the platform, in the pursuit of the broad public, have sometimes not delivered those essential elements for us.”

How many FarmVille players want to fail? How many players return after a long weekend to see their crops withered? If players wanted loss states why do they complain about them so much? Most new games today, like CastelVille have moved away from the spoilage mechanic.
But there is a “hardcore audience”
Developers Kixeye and Kabam have found luck with a “hardcore audience” and others like U4iA would like to join them.

U4iA (pronounced “euphoria”) believes that there is a new segment of players emerging: the hardcore social gamer. Facebook game creators Kixeye and Kabam have already discovered this. But Welch said in an interview that his company aims to shoot even higher on the quality bar, creating AAA-quality games along the lines of what Riot Games, creator of League of Legends, has done for web-based combat games.

There does seem to be a hardcore audience but how big is it and more importantly – do they pay? Seems like to me most payers are older woman.

Social games are soap operas like it or not
I understand how many of the people who enter the social game space hope for more, but that’s like saying you want to revolutionize the soap opera business. It’s great to see all these different perspectives in the industry but eventually people are going to have to come to grips with what we’re building. If all these experiments to create “real games” fail (I’m guessing most will have limited success) we of the social games industry should come to grips with what we’re building. And that isn’t all a bad thing; soap operas pioneered early television, more importantly how to make money. They entertained millions for decades, that is until social games came along!

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Banks stepping up presence on social networking sites - Hindu Business Line

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 5:02pm CET by Google Inc.

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Banks stepping up presence on social networking sites
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With almost half of the country's population below 30 years of age, banks are gradually stepping up their presence in the virtual world, connecting with current and potential customers through social networking Web sites, especially Facebook. ...
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NegotiatorAds.com - Buy And Sell Ads

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 9:07am CET

Make a point of checking NegotiatorAds.com out if your site has just gone live, and you're looking for sponsors. Simply put, it's a marketplace where ads can be bought and sold, both easily and fast.

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JobMango.com - Manage Your Job Search

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 9:05am CET

When you're looking for employment, you end up mailing resumes to jobs that very often are anything but an obvious match for you. Of course, that happens because you have a rent to pay. Anything that gives you a check at the end of the month will do.

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FootballTweeps.com - Discuss Football Online

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 9:03am CET

Fewer and fewer people each day go to forums to discuss these things they're passionate about. They go to sites like this one instead, where discussions are done by using tweets, and where everything happens in real time. It makes for much livelier discussions, as you don't have to refresh a page every ten seconds to see if someone has replied to anything you've posted.

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