Today’s web news…

The Facebook “Like” Starts to Replace the Share Button’s Functionality
Google Cloud Connect: The limits of a Microsoft makeover
MobileMe packages disappear from Apple’s shelves
Google preps YouTube movie service ‘for UK’
What it’s like building a real website in Node.js
Dealmap dishes out mobile coupons to 1.4 million customers
Using Web site best practice to increase mobile site conversion
From Walls to Malls: F-Commerce Evolves as the F-Mall Opens [Screenshots]
Google Glitch Disables 150,000 Gmail Accounts
Facebook rewrites privacy policy in plain(er) English
RIM, Bank of America partnering up for Mobile Wallet NFC trial

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Today’s Web News..

Google Invades Microsoft Territory, Integrates Google Docs With Office Products
The scramble for mobile payments
Report Finds Daily Mobile Internet Usage for One in Five Americans
Infographic: Mobile Browsers Compared Worldwide
Social Networks Are Serving 30 Billion UK Display Ads A Month
TfL’s Oyster to accept contactless bank card payments by 2012
What Marketers Need to Know About Facebook’s Switch to iFrames
Is Developing a Mobile App Worth the Cost?
FaceTime 1.0 Arrives in the Mac App Store
JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
Google Announces “Big Algorithmic Improvement” to Search
Uniqlooks: Uniqlo’s New Fashion Community
Apple brings multi-touch, full-disk crypto to latest OS X
New evidence of Android apps running on BlackBerry phones emerges
Dolce & Gabbana Twitter feed used to personify brand
The scramble for mobile payments
Social Web & Social Commerce Stats from Econsultancy
Google Announces “Big Algorithmic Improvement” to Search
Never Lose Your Car or Miss a Friend With ToothTag
Facebook seeking encryption for apps, mobile
Android Market adds e-books; movies and music soon to come?
Designer of Google Images Launches Search Engine for Hotel Rooms
Instagram Releases Real-Time API Publicly for Universal Photo Sharing

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

American Idol Voting On Its Way to Facebook
How mobile bar codes enable cross-channel commerce
Google opens Android front in Zuckerberg data war
Why We Stick With PHP (and don’t move to Ruby or Python)
ShopSavvy taps Groupon to push location-based deals to 10M users
New York Times Travel Show taps mobile to engage attendees
Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics
Security shocker: Android apps send private data in clear
New Startup Aims to “Make Paper Sexy” With Crowdsourced Designs
New in Chrome 10: Run Google Chrome Web Store Apps in the Background
Google sweetens Android with full Honeycomb SDK
JQuery Waypoints – execute a function whenever you scroll to an element
New Firefox 4 for Android Available Now
Just How Is Apple’s App Store Subscription Policy Good for Users?
Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom’s 30-Second Rule for App Success
Google Now Offering Google Apps Certification
Visualized: Android activations mapped geographically, chronologically, breathtakingly (video)

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

Final Android 3.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools
Ruby concurrency explainined simply
What happens after Yahoo acquires you
Who Rules the Web Now?
LinkedIn and the 80/20 rule
Five lip biting SEO myths I still hear in 2011
Six reasons why your brand should hop on the API bandwagon
Xbox to welcome Kinect ‘hackers’
Google One Pass: how to pay for news on the web
Why nobody can match the iPad’s price
Google Person Finder Helps Victims of New Zealand Earthquake Reconnect With Missing Loved Ones
French retail gets serious about f-commerce with La Redoute
Porsche thanks its Facebook fans by printing a million of their names on a 911
Square’s “Simple Revolution”: No More Per-Transaction Fees
Windows 7 service pack 1 set to lift off today
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
Academics, Enthusiasts to Get Kinect SDK – Microsoft Research
Mobile sites key to customer loyalty, multi-platform sales: panel
Macy’s targets USA Today mobile consumers to drive traffic in-store
Abandoned cart emails key to win back shoppers: study
How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development
A sweet Foursquare hack lets you know where you checked-in one year ago each day

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement
iTunes privacy hole shares library content with world+dog
Why PHP is better than Ruby
Social media to amplify luxury brands’ Oscar chatter
How to design for Google’s Android
New Report: Locating A Store On The Phone Is Not Always Easy
Apple new subscription rules now upsetting developers, too
One Page CMS
California school district battles truancy with GPS
The Old Spice Guy Now Making Custom Videos for Fans via Social Media
Klout for Business, A Sometimes Useful Metric –but an Incomplete View of Customers
China’s answer to Facebook plans US float
Facebook Messenger iPhone app gives you yet another VoIP option, Zuckerberg yet another good idea

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

Groupon Gears Up to Expand Into China
Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?
Twitter Reinstates API Access For Twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry
Power to the People: 3 Tasty Crowdsourcing Case Studies
Live streaming from London Fashion Week puts commuters on the front row
Just How Offensive Is Your Facebook Profile?
Facebook Wins Patent On Photo Tag Search Results
Techmeme, Twitter, Quora and mini link-farms
Wow A (Social) Wheel! Cool! What Does It Do?!
10 Fascinating YouTube Facts That May Surprise You
Google Social Search update makes your friends more relevant, difficult to ignore
How an Imaginative Child Learning Software Startup Avoided Death by Retail
Application-testing mantras for marketers
WPP to Unveil Interactive Ad Network
Nordstrom Buys Social Commerce Platform for $270m: The future of luxury advertising?
Amazon Appstore for Android will let you buy apps without a device
Untappd – A Fun, New, Mobile-Based Social Network for Beer Enthusiasts.
Google ‘Arctic Sea’ – Chrome native code, ahoy!
Google opens curtain on ‘manual’ search penalties
Multi-user real-time heatmaps with HTMLCanvas Open Source
A Simple MVC Setup in Node.js
Google’s Native Client almost ‘ready for takeoff,’ ready to make ActiveX look visionary
Google Apps Admins: Use APIs Without Writing Code
Check Your JavaScript with JSHint, a Fork of Douglas Crockford’s JSLint
Oracle looks for love at Java DevJam
Death by 30% cut: Apple app tax must change
NBN will turn retail borderless, says Conroy
EU agency calls for clear consent on indelible and zombie cookies
Google Gets Involved in Bittorrent Search Lawsuit
Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar
DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding
Google Gives Advice on Handling Search Rank Penalties
What Happens to .ly Domains When Libya Shuts Down the Internet

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

Google tightens social integration with search
Look Out Quora, InboxQ (YC W10) Takes Q&A Off-Site And Onto Twitter
Is Bleacher Report the New New Media Hope? (TCTV)
Facebook Expands Relationship Status Options
Facebook Drops FBML in Favor of iFrames – Advantages & Challenges
eBay ranked top in social media and brands study
Facebook Upgrades Requests API, Not Much More Viral
Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer
Facebook Expands Relationship Status Options
Why f-commerce? 1 in 11 humans are there
Social links get higher billing in Google
Social media given the cold shoulder by banks
Ford launches outdoor augmented reality campaign
13 tips: the science of email marketing
Orange Cash goes live, O2 Money goes to Ireland
Behold: we don’t need Flash at all anymore. For anything. Ever.
WPP rolls out interactive agency specializing in mcommerce strategies
This Week in iPad for Business: Twitter Analytics, Zendesk and Box
Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb to merge in next OS
Jshon: A command line program to parse, read and create JSON
Online customer service: how to get it right
51 essential link building tips
Starbucks chief takes board role at Groupon
BBC Finally Turns iPlayer In To A VOD TV Aggregator
The tricky mix of payment, identity and trust
Warning: Coupons make you spend more

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s Web News…

Mobile advertising takes center-stage at Mobile World Congress
Oracle floats Java EE for cloud
Boffin breakthrough doubles Wi-Fi speed
Virgin tempts Brits with fee-free TiVo
Telcos plan to capitalise on the data explosion
Hashbang URIs Aren’t as Bad as You Think
A Tweet’s Effect on SEO Rankings – An Unexpected Case Study
A First Look At Firefox 5
Visualization of Egyptian Revolution On Twitter
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle
Coach aims to influence purchase intent in-store via mobile
Mobile giving does not cannibalize other donation channels
Does Facebook hold the future of mobile payments in its hands?
Elle accepts Apple terms, sells iPad subscriptions
Mandarin Oriental exec says mobile site essential for luxury hotels
Why nonprofits should explore mobile marketing
Facebook Pushing SMS-Based Social Networking Via New Partnership with Gemalto
‘Apple Just F****d Over Online Music Subs’
Sunlight Labs opens up Real Time Congress API
Warner Brothers Debuts App-Based Movie Purchases
Group-Buy Profitable for 66% of Businesses: 4 Reasons Why [Infographic & Report]
New Site Makes Group Buying From Farmers Easy
Sony’s Music Unlimited Adds Three Countries Including U.S.
iPhone 4 Named Best Mobile Device at Mobile World Congress
VoIP Inc. sues Google: alleges theft of trade secrets for click-to-call ads
Why Twitter Must Expand Beyond 140 Characters
Apple releases Digital Camera Raw Update 3.6
Yahoo! the comeback kid?
How Small Businesses Are Missing Huge Web Traffic Opportunities

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

US in ‘privacy’ move against Twitter
Texas antitrust investigators request Google ‘ad rate formula’
Money gone, people gone: Oracle’s open-source blowback
Rackspace promises ‘big name’ OpenStack power shift
Image-rich, Flash-based Web sites not SEO-friendly: expert
Mozilla: ‘Internet Explorer 9 is not a modern browser’
Toshiba previews TV UI for cloud content
Opera Mini BREWs up
Steve Jobs unveils 30% subs model for … everything
The case for Desktop Virtualisation
What Apple’s new subscription policy means for news
Dremel implements mobile strategy to influence purchase decisions
Why smartphone users and developers should fear hackers
Donna Karan incorporates SMS into mobile app to encourage usage
Mobile marketing plays prominent role at Mobile World Congress
Social Media in 2011 – Time to “Show Me the Money”
O2 develops revenue share apps starting with eBay
Google CEO Says NFC, Mobile Payments Will Prove Profitable
RIM adding BBM app gifting to BlackBerry App World
Vodafone announces Webbox, gives internet access to the developing world
Become a Record Label Employee With Crowdfunding Site
InternMatch: Helping Match Student Interns and Startups
Lendle — Kindle Book-Sharing Service
How Etsy is Using Node.js
HP revamping webOS App Catalog for tablet use, adding carrier billing and magazine-like view
Rhapsody bites back at Apple
REPORT: Your Fans Are Fair Weather Friends
OKGo’s Latest: GPS iPhone Art
TweetLouder is a Fast Easy Way to Track Your Favorite Bands

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Today’s web news…

Adobe predicts huge growth for its Flash player in smartphones
Iomega SuperHero iPhone back-up gadget
Adobe open source code backs – gasp! – HTML5
Groupon releases first Australian media release
Intel demos MeeGo ‘tablet user experience’
Lasoo: online catalogues gain clicks
Google Chrome extension bars domains from search results
HTML5 kicked into 2014
Google, MS, Mozilla: Three ‘Do Not Tracks’ to woo them all
Operators launch anti-Google WAC
Microsoft outlines WinPho 7 roadmap
Google open video codec faces second challenger
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
HP buys Vertica for data analytics
SongKick (YC S07) Raises $2m More to Out-Innovate Other Concert Alert Services
Buick to raise awareness of scholarship program via Verizon iPhone ads
BMW employs mobile augmented reality for X3 promo
Examples of five mobile bar code strategies during the 2010 holidays
PG&E debuts mobile bill pay to enhance customer service
Mobile banking services can lead to 300pc ROI for banks: Accenture
Twitter boss talks up mobile hope
Yell Hell: The Struggle Against Search In Local Advertising
Governments urged to speed up introduction of fast fibre optic cable
For Emerging Markets, Facebook & Twitter on the SIM
HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android
VIDEO: 3D gaming on the phone
Customer Support from Your iPad With Zendesk’s New App
The Pros & Cons of Group-Buy [Infographic]
Where Twitter Trending Topics Really Come From [STATS]
Will Twitter Become the New “Voice of America” Propaganda Arm?
Fashism Goes to Fashion Week [PICS]
Infographic: Android Users Click More Ads, Yet iPhone Users Deemed “More Valuable”
@ MWC: No Twitter-Branded Smartphone, Says Costolo
Twitter working with operators on SMS short codes

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com