Roundup: Live Search cashback will bring in no revenue, Google Reader is catching up with Bloglines, and more
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Microsoft’s Live Search cashback will generate NO revenue for the company — How badly does Microsoft want to catch Google in the search business? Badly enough that it’s willing to put a program in place that will bring in absolutely no revenue, and will in fact run at a loss until it is propped up by its regular search advertising business, according to Silicon Alley Insider. SAI actually somewhat likes the idea, but… Continue Reading
Roundup: Hipihi, Twitter-Gmail, Vadver, iFamily, HeyNielsen, Gphone, Bloglines
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China’s virtual worlds censored– China’s virtual world Hipihi reflects the real-world culture of its users. Players can have virtual sex in private rooms, but can’t engage in frank political talk. GigaOm has a review here. We mentioned Hipihi earlier, when writing about competitor Leeuu. There’s a YouTube video of Hipihi here (though Chinese language), which shows how similar it is to Second Life in other ways.
iFamily latest family tree company — We’ve written… Continue Reading