Roundup: Web data offers election insight, banks gets big bonuses and more

Roundup: Web data offers election insight, banks gets big bonuses and more

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Web data offers new info on presidential election — It remains to be seen whether Barack Obama’s tremendous lead over John McCain in Facebook friends will lead to a similar victory on election day. Meanwhile, another study looks at which social networking sites… Continue Reading

Roundup: Amazon Web services go down, MySpace to join OpenID and more

Roundup: Amazon Web services go down, MySpace to join OpenID and more

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Amazon Web services go down over the weekend — The problems crippled messaging service Twitter and many other sites.

MySpace to join OpenID? — TechCrunch’s sources say the social networking site will join the OpenID initiative, which allows one login to work across multiple sites,… Continue Reading