Two big A’s continue their row. The latest round was fired by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs in a lengthy blog post entitled ‘Thoughts on Flash.‘ No it’s not some new memory technique or a way to save your childhood before old age strips you of it.

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Steve Jobs’ Flash Dance – Contradicts Self on Reasons for No Flash for Apple Mobile Platforms

Google has just rolled out a new search feature that would benefit those who search using non-English language. If you’re one of these people you’d be glad to know that Google search now features a virtual keyboard that would let you type search keywords in your own language.

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Google Integrates a Virtual Keyboard to Search

And beats its pants off. I was asked to speak about “Capitalizing on the Twitter Revolution” at Pubcon. So I talked about Facebook

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Why Facebook Marketing Slaps Twitter Marketing In the Face

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – it was one of those weeks devoid of ‘ah-ha’ moments nor any real drama-du-jour. Sheesh… c’mon people, pick it up out there would ya? That being said, as always, there were plenty of interesting and entertaining posts.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 04/28/2010

Google has just launched a new search feature that aims to help you easily find new websites that are similar to the ones you are familiar with and are related to  the subject that interest you, particularly for your current search session. The new feature called “Pages similar ” makes the Google search feature “similar” more prominent and visible on your search results.

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Google Starts Displaying Pages Similar to Search Results

Here we go, Google’s latest acquisition has just been announced –  the startup LabPixies. In case you’re not aware, LabPixies , which is based in Tel Aviv  happens to be one of the first developer which created  an iGoogle gadget. According to the LabPixies’ announcement, the acquisition will help them scale to more users and will open up more opportunities for the LabPixies crew

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Google Acquires iGoogle Gadget Maker, LabPixies

(I’m writing this with my Video Game Journalist Hat on) I have to file this under: HAHA! We told you so! It seems that, according to a recent study by Nielsen Games, video game playing cuts down on TV prime time viewing. Well, duh! Why sit around and watch when you can interact right? That’s

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Video Games Cutting into TV Viewing

BrightRoll dropped some numbers from their second annual survey about what media buyers and agencies are planning in regards to spending patterns for online video advertising.  Let’s see what they had to say.

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Education Is The Key To Future Growth For Video Advertising

Hey everyone.  I’m back for another Friday look at some of the week’s most shared and viewed viral hits.  This week we have some sports, some animals, and SOMETHING ELSE.  Let’s not waste any more time getting to our case studies.

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Baseball, More iPads, & Musical Shoes – Viral Video Round Up

Google just announced that its cool search by voice feature in Google Maps 4.1 is now available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. This is the same voice activated search feature that BlackBerry and Android phone users have been enjoying for quite some time now.

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Search by Voice Available Now in Google Maps 4.1 for WinMo and Symbian