First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter () (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans? YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]

Google announced today support for enhanced markup for video search. This will allow webmasters to include important information, such as titles and descriptions, in machine-readable HTML along with the JavaScript or Flash videos themselves…

Twitter’s traffic has grown tremendously in the past year, but how many people are actively using the service versus casually passing by? According to the latest research from eMarketer, that number will be at around 18 million by the end of 2009…

Here’s a very familiar story that we all know: A pair of college kids launch a directory of the Internet that grows to become the most visited site on the web and makes them very rich. Then a few years later, another pair of college kids start a search engine, laser focused on one goal: [...]

Facebook today rolled out a very spare version of itself in the United States called Facebook Lite. The original goal of Facebook Lite was to help the social network expand in developing countries where users unfamiliar with Facebook might want a simpler interface, or one that would load faster on a slower Internet connection…

A month ago we reported that Facebook was beta testing a ‘lite’ version of its popular social networking site. http://lite.facebook.com has just become available to U.S. users. The lite version offers users a “faster, simpler version of Facebook.” Judging from what we have seen so far, Facebook Lite turns Facebook into a very Twitter-like experience. [...]