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Google salaries reach the dizzy heights of $1
They may have created the most successful search engine in the world, but Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, earn less than the minimum wage.
Wii still owns lion's share
In the US, Nintendo still owns the lion’s share of the market. Nintendo Wii sold 335,000 consoles, Xbox 360 sold 228,000 and Playstation 3 sold 127,000 for the month of February.
Levi's Singapore goes for the long game
Levi's breaks traditional website rules with its new microsite for Copper Jeans at (www.levi.com.sg/copper).
US ready for digital switchover?
The US could provide a valuable test run for the UK switchover to digital TV, set to go fully live by 2012.
Bloggers challenge old media after Virginia shootings
The tragic events at Virginia Tech in April will, according to one US writer, “go down as the first Web 2.0 national nightmare”.
Comment
Significant Partners
Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick is probably their most significant to date. The search giant’s failure to persuade the marketing community to adopt their display advertising products put them behind both Microsoft and Yahoo in integrating search and display, and was beginning to concern the investment community.
Bitesize
Rare pickings
For those who want unique luxury: www.20ltd.com is a new online retailer that sells no more than 20 exclusive items at a time.
Spooks in Second Life
Everyone else is there, so why not the Feds too? It seems Second Life has been infiltrated by the FBI.
Offset your cheating heart
Inspired by the idea of carbon-offsetting, satirical site www.cheatneutral.com allows unfaithful lovers to ‘offset’ their transgressions, by paying £2.50 to someone who is ‘monogamous and single’.
My parking space
Peasy.com is a must for anyone who finds parking a nightmare (and in urban Britain, that’s surely most of us).
Mii too
The latest craze among fans of Nintendo’s Wii is to use the console’s ‘Mii’ avatar facility to create ‘celebrity’ Miis.
The Numbers Page
YouTuber's Vote
The "not bovvered" generation have shown their support of Politicians getting in on the UCG bandwagon.
A Tale of Two Giants
According to comScore, US Internet users performed 75.8% of their January 2007 searches on Google or Yahoo!, and Nielsen//NetRatings put the combined total at 76.4%.
Broadband Race
Half of UK adults now have broadband, a seven-fold increase in four years. Average connection speeds in the UK more than doubled last year to 3.8mbps on the previous year; and we are now enjoying speeds of 8mbps.