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  • Twitter Makes Us Dumber, Facebook Makes Us Smarter?

    According to a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, Facebook may be good for working memory in the same way that war games and Sudoku are, while Twitter may actually harm it.

  • Pimp My Salary

    Human nature is a funny thing. It makes us act in a lot of ways we might not have predicted, yet in ways we can easily rationalize after the fact. For instance, whether we admit to it or not, many of us are quite competitive. We might know…

  • The Land of Opportunity

    Regardless of what happens in the ongoing drama that is fakevertising, we will forever remember this past year as one of the most unique and perhaps one of the most defining we’ve seen. In a classic example of performance…

  • Vitaminwater Puts Users at the Flavor Controls

    A new campaign from Coca-Cola’s energy brand Vitaminwater is crowdsourcing its next flavor rollout and offering a $5,000 prize

  • Google Leads Global Search Market, Europe Searches Most

    According to a report released earlier this week by comScore, Google topped the worldwide search market in July, handling 76.7 billion searches during the month.

  • Humans Still Wanted in Online Shopping Experiences

    Though “human” is not typically a word associated with online purchases, a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive for IMshopping seems to indicate that maybe it should be.

  • Social Networking Sites: More Than 20% of Ad Impressions, Led by MySpace, Facebook

    According to comScore, social networking sites accounted for more than 20 percent of all display ads viewed online in July, with MySpace and Facebook driving the large majority of these impressions.

  • US Advertising Fell 15% in First Half of 2009

    The Nielsen Company reported earlier this week that ad spending in the U.S. dropped 15.4 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to the first half of 2008, with Cable Television the only media category to see an increase.

  • The Missing Super Affiliate

    At some point in a person’s life, they invariably hear about the Playboy brand. For some, the dream manifests itself in appearing in one of the magazine’s storied publications. For others it doesn’t involve appearing in it themselves…

  • Gmail Fail. Who Wins?

    Something unusual happened Tuesday, September 1st, an April Fool’s joke that didn’t involve any actual joke. It doesn’t sound like much really, but it turned out to be quite an unusual experience. We all know that Google isn’t perfect, and…