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Seven things you should never do on Facebook

Millions of people are connected online with Facebook, but are you sharing too much? Here are seven things you shouldn’t do on the site, regardless of how keen you are on socialising online.
Read more here:
Seven things you should never do on Facebook – Yahoo! News UK.

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Google boss Eric Schmidt given $100m golden parachute – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance

Eric Schmidt has been granted a $100m (£62.5m) golden parachute for stepping down as chief executive of the internet company.
The bumper bonus share award comes days after Mr Schmidt’s shock announcement that he is to be replaced as chief executive by Larry Page, one of Google’s co-founders.
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Eric Schmidt – Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman

Eric Schmidt – Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman posted at 1/20/2011 01:01:00 PM
Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman.

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Schmidt Out as Google CEO | WebProNews

Google just dropped a bombshell: Eric Schmidt is out as CEO (as announced in the company’s earings report.
You can read more about this here:
Schmidt Out as Google CEO | WebProNews.

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YouTube Partners Treated To $1,000 Shopping Sprees | WebProNews

YouTube videos that look like and sound like they were shot with $40 cell phones and tin cans on strings are about to become much more rare.  YouTube announced this afternoon that it’s going to let 500 YouTube partners conduct shopping sprees on its dime, only the actual total should be closer to $500,000.
Read about You Tube’s generous gift here
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Sex.com Domain Name Sold for a Cool $13 Million

They say that sex sells, and that saying could definitely be applied to the domain name of Sex.com, which was just purchased by Clover Holdings from Escom LLC for $13 million. Besides the domain name itself, Clover Holdings also gets two related trademark registrations in the deal.
Read the whole story here, it makes quite a read!
Sex.com Domain Name Sold for [...]

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UK Online Retail Reaches $7.8 Billion In July

Online retail spending in the UK reached $7.8 billion (5 billion) in July the most of any month this year according to IMRG Capegemini e-Retail Sales Index.
Brits spent an average of $126 per person online, marking a turning point since the lows of the last two years.
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UK Online Retail Reaches $7.8 Billion In July [...]

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Man travels around world for free using Twitter

By Andy Bloxham – original story here
A British man called Paul Smith has travelled around the world almost totally free using only Twitter to get journeys from fellow users.
Mr Smith, 34, a freelance writer, came up with the idea while suffering post-holiday blues after spending his honeymoon in New York. He decided he wanted to try to get to [...]

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Gadgets going extinct

Spare a thought for the endangered gadgets that will soon be no more than museum exhibits.
I found a interesting article over in the technology section of the msn.com site about gadgets going extinct, including phone boxes, floppy disks (whens the last time you used one of these?), alarm clocks, light bulbs and even the computer mouse!
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5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website

Im a big fan of the Six Revisions website, and I suggest you add it to your bookmarks. One of the latest articles I was reading on their was
5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website …. cover robots.txt, favicon.ico, sitemap.xml, dublin.rdf and opensearch.xml. Their purposes range from helping search engines index your site accurately, to acting as usability and [...]

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