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Stories by Heather Havenstein

Article | 1/09/2008 Veoh ruling bolsters YouTube effort to fend off Viacom suit

YouTube efforts to fend off Viacom Internatonal's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against its parent, Google, were likely bolstered last w...

Article | 29/08/2008 'West Wing' creator may be writing movie about Facebook

A new Facebook profile created for Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin claims that he has agreed to write a movie about the invention of the popular F...

Article | 28/08/2008 Gold medal cyclist leaned on Google Earth in training

Kristin Armstrong, who won an Olympic cycling gold medal on August 13, this week said that Google Earth played a critical role in her training for the...

Article | 26/08/2008 Researcher mines blogs, social networks to access bank accounts

A recent Google search of the popular social networking site MySpace for several variations of terms describing a person's maternal grandparents retur...

Article | 25/08/2008 Microsoft details plans for new social bookmarking tool

Microsoft is delving into social bookmarking with the release in early September of the first version of a new bookmarking tool focused on its technic...

Article | 22/08/2008 Facebook hopes new ad scheme can engage users

Facebook has quietly launched a new type of advertisement it hopes will help in the struggle to find a way to help advertisers profit from the treasur...

Article | 21/08/2008 EBay moves further from auction roots with changes

Ebay Wednesday announced that it is cutting the cost to list an item in its fixed price format by more than 70%, a move the online auctioneer said pro...

Article | 21/08/2008 Yahoo Buzz poses serious threat to Digg, some users say

Buzz, the social news site that Yahoo launched in beta form in February, may pose a serious threat to social news pioneer Digg.com, according to some ...

Article | 20/08/2008 Google customer satisfaction scores roar back

After enduring a two-year dip in customer satisfaction scores -- and even being bested by rival Yahoo last year -- Google came roaring back in 2008 to...

Article | 18/08/2008 McCain gets boost from bumping up Web 2.0 campaigning

While Sen. John McCain's campaign has long been a less than enthusiastic supporter of Web 2.0 technologies than rival Sen. Barack Obama's, it has sign...

Article | 18/08/2008 Protesters use Web 2.0 to show dark side to Beijing Olympics

With the eyes of the world turned to Beijing, human rights protesters and even bloggers detained by the Chinese government regime have been using vari...

Article | 14/08/2008 Facebook dominates worldwide social networking, study finds

Facebook has grown 153% during the past year, propelled by the soaring growth of new in virtually every market outside North America, according to a r...

Article | 8/08/2008 Search closing in on e-mail as most popular online activity

Almost half of all Internet users now use search engines on a typical day, according to a new study released Wednesday, that showed search engines are...

Article | 7/08/2008 New Google tool aims to provide more insight into searches

Google yesterday rolled out a new tool that it said can help marketing and advertising users better analyze Internet search patterns, while also addin...

Article | 6/08/2008 Microsoft's BI general manager leaving

Bill Baker, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and general manager of business intelligence applications for the Microsoft Office Business Platform team...