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Yahoo partnered with photo editing company Picnik way back in 2007. It was an important partnership for Yahoo’s Flickr, leading to senior executives to proclaim:
“Providing the ability to edit directly within Flickr is an important step in offering our 20 million members around the globe a complete photo experience.”

Then along came Google.
…we’ve just been acquired [...]

It appears Twitter is finally had enough of third-party analytics companies getting all of the publicity over tweet counts–so it’s spilling the official beans.

Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to [...]

Despite criticism, Google’s AdSense for Domains program still exists, and now we know why.
It’s earning close to $500 million a year for the search engine!

According to New Scientist, two researchers at Harvard University have conducted some simple calculations to come up with the estimate:
Moore and Edelman…estimate that each of the 3264 top sites is targeted [...]

Remember back, years ago, when we had something to report about Facebook almost every day? I guess they’ve moved along the hype cycle now, so tit’s only natural that we see fewer stories about them—but every once in a while, two in a day can’t hurt. Especially not when Facebook’s out there launching something like [...]

This week, Google announced that YouTube is extending its Partnership Program. Formerly only for professional and very popular accounts (think thousands of views per video), the Partnership Program shared ad revenue between YouTube and original content creators.
Now anyone can participate in the ad-sharing program . . . almost. Actually, you still have to get thousands [...]