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 are big in which swing states.
Google CEO stumping for Obama — Eric Schmidt says he’s speaking for himself, not Google, and that he has previously been an informal adviser to the… Continue Reading
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, later this week. If so, it would be the second-largest OpenID implementation ever, second only to Yahoo.
The New York Times and LinkedIn forge a content partnership — Users of the business-oriented… Continue Reading