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Microsoft Wants Ad Volume: Try AOL, Not Yahoo!
According to Steve Ballmer, the reason Microsoft wants Yahoo! is to beef up its advertising volume. If that’s the case, Microsoft should consider AOL as an alternative. AOL’s Platform-A, after all, is the largest ad network online by reach.
Use Google Gears for Fast Client-Side Search
MySpace is using Google’s Gears API to allow users to store mail messages locally and then search them in real-time. This week, a Google engineer released an unofficial project to help any web site developer add Gears-powered local search capabilities.
Microsoft Opens Live Mesh to All
Microsoft’s Live Mesh data synchronization platform was opened to the public at large today. Right now it is very much a tech preview, but some of the planned features of Mesh are quite intriguing.
LinkedIn Tries Facebook-Style Ads
LinkedIn launched a new feature called DirectAds that let’s anyone one the site buy targeted text ads. At face value it feels a lot like the under performing “flyers” ad network on Facebook, but LinkedIn’s version will likely do a lot better.
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