AGBeat Columnist: Chelsea Stark
Chelsea is the Managing News Editor and news herder at AgentGenius.com. Her day job involves the hectic world of Austin local news (she's worked in almost all the TV newsrooms), and she takes an interest in journalism's slow collision with new technology. She has a journalism degree from the University of Texas, and has lived in Austin for all the good parts of her life.
Google Launches Buzz — but what is it good for?
Yesterday and today, those who actively used Gmail were greeted with that prompt if they wanted to try Buzz, which proclaimed to organize and give some ranking to all the social networks we use today. This idea is great for Google, because it seems to be a chance for them to spread their global empire. Lots of people already are ...
Can You Digg it? What is Digg and How Does it Work?
Social news sites Social news sites haven’t been quite as in the spotlight since Twitter and Facebook seemed to have sucked up more of our time and attention, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t a valuable resource for both sharing your information and learning about a topic. Easily the most popular social news site is Digg, which was partially propelled ...
Facebook Overtaking Google in News Views?
It’s rare that anyone can successfully shove the big G out of the way, but in the battle of online news eyeballs, another giant is stepping in. Web Analyst company HitWise employee Heather Hopkins posted a blog saying that Facebook had been gaining ground on Google Reader and Google News in driving traffic back to news sites. According to her ...
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Adobe Lashes Back for iPad’s Lack of Flash
The big blue lego of doom Apple’s yet-to-be-released iPad hasn’t been a critics’ darling like the company expected, and now one of the biggest companies ‘snubbed’ by the iPhone operating system is taking swipes at the tablet. An Adobe employee released graphics showing popular web applications like Hulu, Farmville and CNN simulated on an iPad. The one thing they had ...
Real Estate Construction Spending Crashed in 2009
Construction spending hits historic lows Construction spending continued the same downward trend it exhibited all of 2009 in December, as real estate, public and private construction all dipped from the previous months’ numbers to levels not seen since 2003, according to a federal report released Monday. Overall, construction dropped 12.4 percent from the year before, the report from the U.S. ...
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