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Whole Foods Launches Mobile Website

Whole Foods Market has unveiled a new website aimed at mobile users. The company says it provides users with the same features as its non-mobile site. Visitors to the mobile site can access Whole Foods selection of over 2,000 recipes, store information including hours, driving directions, store specials and a calendar of events for their local store. "Whether they are at home, work, or out and about, our customers can now easily access store information and what's on sale at their local Whole Foods Market ," said Bill Tolany, global coordinator of integrated media for Whole Foods Market. "Shoppers can also use their handheld devices to create shopping lists and save their favorite recipes to 'My Recipe Box,' a popular feature on our website." The mobile site also features a store locator where customers can use a ZIP code search to find the nearest Whole Foods Market store. Continue reading

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PBS Adds NewsHour Channel To YouTube

PBS has partnered with YouTube to create a channel for its long running nightly NewsHour program. The YouTube Blog offers more details. "The PBS NewsHour channel on YouTube Continue reading

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Google And Ask See Search Gains In November

Google's share of the search market inched up by 1 percent in November accounting for 71.57 percent of all U.S. searches conducted during the month, according to Hitwise . Yahoo trailed landing in the second position with 15.39 percent of the search share representing a 5 percent decline from October. Bing also saw a dip of 2 percent and ended up with 9.34 percent of the search market. Ask saw its search share rise 1 percent to 2.65 percent in November. Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, were flat between October and September. Searches of eight or more words increased 1 percent. The same period showed that shorter search queries averaging one to four words long were flat from month to month. Continue reading

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Facebook Giving Users More Privacy Controls

Facebook is rolling out new features today to allow users to have more control over how they share content with others. Users will be able to control who sees each individual piece of content they post. Facebook's new Publisher Privacy Control will allow people to select a privacy setting for every post they make at the time they create it. By making selections in a drop-down menu, users will be able to control what they want to share with friends, family and co-workers. To help users with the changes, Facebook is offering a Transition Tool. The tool will start with a message that explains the changes and will then let users update their settings. Users will have the option of keeping their old settings or accept recommendations from Facebook. "One of our primary goals is to consistently improve Facebook and expand what our users can do through the site, and that includes providing them with new tools to help control their information," said Chris Cox, Vice President of Product Management. "The features we're announcing today aren't the end point, but are simply the latest step in our iterative process. Great suggestions helped us get here, and we look forward to the feedback that will help us develop the next innovation in privacy and user control." Facebook said the changes will not impact advertising programs and that it has never shared personal information with advertisers except at the direction and control of a user Continue reading

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40 Million Reasons You Need a Mobile Web Presence

Opera is reporting that usage of its Opera Mini mobile browser has jumped 11% in just a month, around the world. In addition, they say data transfers have gained 16%. About 40 million people used Opera Mini in October, according to the company. That's an 11.3% increase from September 2009 and more than 155% compared to October 2008. page-views and data transfers increased at an even more impressive rate. Opera says that because of this, consumers can save 9.4 billion USD per year just by using Opera Mini. If you want to know how this translates to you personally, Opera has a cost calculator in its new State of the Mobile Web report . "Because Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90%, people everywhere can reduce the amount they pay each month for mobile data," says Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. "By making the Web accessible and affordable on mobile devices, we can usher in a communications revolution on an unprecedented scale. Opera Mini is helping to spur this change — potentially affecting the lives of billions — not just by making mobile browsing possible, but by making it affordable, as well." The 39.6 million people using Opera Mini in October viewed 17.2 billion pages. From September, page-views increased 14.8%. From October 2008, they increased 238%. A few more interesting stats from Opera's report include: Continue reading

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Twittering As a Full-Time Job

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Yahoo Releases Top 10 Mobile Searches Of 2009

Yahoo has released its top 10 mobile searches for 2009 and interestingly only two of the top searches match what people were searching for on their PCs. While Michael Jackson topped Yahoo's overall searches for 2009, actress Megan Fox landed in the top spot of mobile searches. Continue reading

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