Reuters via Yahoo News reports that Reed Elsevier of the Netherlands is testing Norwegian company FASTMedia’s alternative publishers contextual advertising system where the publisher retains the bulk of the revenue.
Norway’s Schibsted is already using the technology on its Sesam search engine - see ‘cheap flights’. The displayed ads follow a similar style to Google […]

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Belgium newspaper - Le Soir - has revealed that Google is to open a new 120-person data centre in the French-speaking part of Belgium (known as Wallonie in Belgium) near a town called Ghlin-Baudour (See map) covering a site of 85 hectares or 210 acres of land. The 120 people are required for management, data management, maintenance and security according to Google, says Le Soir.

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Johan Kinnander, Manager of the Swedish office for Google, has resigned after two years. (Very common for Googlers.. for some reason..? :-))
He says he needed to move on and is happy with the results he has achieved during his time with Google.
Best of luck to him!

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An ambitious project called MapMyName, launched by two graduate students from Aveiro University in Portugal, aims to map and subsequently count all the Internet users in the world.
This is made possible, according to a video release in YouTube, due to a “recommendations system”. Every person who signs in, recommends 3 friends that also use […]

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Hi5, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites in Europe, and one of the most visited sites in Portugal, chose Sapo, the most important entertainment portal in that country, as the search engine for its Portuguese users.
Sapo replaces Google in both search and ads in Hi5.
According to Netpanel, Hi5 is the 4th most […]

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Google offered an apology to search rival Sohu who complained its data was used by Google in a new Internet tool. This recent controversy highlights the intense competition in China’s booming online market where Internet companies invest heavily on search, entertainment and other features.
Sohu complained that the new tool Google used for […]

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A non-profit organization, Japan Web development and Web marketing Consortium was established on April 1 to improve the quality of Japanese web. Current members include, Adobe Systems, Apple, Microsoft, web design companies, and some individual members.
They plan to offer some networking events and seminars, and to reach 200 businesses and 100 individual memberships by […]

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Mail.ru will has signed a deal to broadcast the Soyuz space shuttle launch through their new online video service, video.mail.ru.
On 7 April at 21.00 Moscow time a live audience of millions of television viewers and Internet users can watch the launch of the manned spacecraft [Soyuz] from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. “We are happy to […]

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David Sifry outlines the state of the Blogosphere in the first quaterly report 2007

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Japan Registry Services, who handle JP domain management and DNS operation, announced that there are 908,329 registered JP domains as of April 4, 2007, which makes JP domain to be the 10th popular domains in the world. (There are about 250 ccTLDs in the world.)

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Japan University just announced its plan to introduce Google Apps (Education Edition), and provide it to students (up to 100,000 students). The service includes, Gmail, Google talk and Google calender.
They plan to provide the service to a total of 500,000 members including alumnus and staffs in future.

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A report by Nielsen/Net Ratings on the site view changes in February shows most of the popular cooking (recipes) sites had a large increase in site views. 3 of them had more than 30% increase in site view from January, and most of the increase came from female between 20-50.

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Marketing Sherpa have released a useful white paper on Website Globalisation, you can download this free of charge until the 11th April.
Web globalization isn’t just for large multinational corporations anymore. Companies of all sizes are capitalizing on the Internet to expand beyond their countries and into new cultural groups within existing borders.
We surveyed 1,939 marketers […]

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Yahoo! Japan announced the opening of Yahoo! Japan Laboratory in Tokyo.
It aims to contribute to a healthy, rich development of the Internet by investigating and researching a further possibility of the Internet with the advancement of the technology, and the relationship between Internet and the society.
The academic activity is categorized in three main points:
“Internet Forecast” […]

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The project, codenamed SecondUA intends to project the Portuguese University by being one of only 70 worldwide to establish a presence in Second Life.
The University of Aveiro bought an island in Second Life and plans to divide it into six big areas, dedicated to online classes, study spaces and leisure. A area called InfoZone […]

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The 2nd Internet and Business conference will take place in Moscow on the 18th-20th of April. Some of the topics set to be covered include:

Exponential growth of internet in Russia
Contextual advertising/pay for placement systems and future developments
Electronic payments, problems and solutions
Mobile internet
Applying the lessons of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The conference itself is free […]

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Google is celebrating their first anniversary in Russia at the moment and according to 3dnews.ru, they are marking the occasion by opening a new office in Moscow.
In 2006, Google set up two development centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have managed to sign partnerships over the last year with several large IT players […]

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Nearly 25% of Internet users in the UK is over the age of 50 and a the latest surveys shoe that the Internet is even more popular than gardening among UK pensioners. A generation in the UK is growing up taking the “always-on” connectivity for granted. For them the Internet is a virtual playground […]

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Orkut Buyukkokten, the engineer behind Google’s social network website, is visiting Brazil for the first time.
He is in Rio de Janeiro this week, and will visit São Paulo (including a breakfast at GooglePlex with a select group of clients) next week and after that Belo Horizonte, where Google has a research&development facility.
Orkut is the […]

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Yandex, the leading Russian search portal, has released a new report on the state of e-commerce in Russia. The results are promising, up 42% in 2006, racing ahead of the 25% rise seen in western markets. As expected, Moscow leads the way with 61% of the sales for the country coming from the capital.
Users […]

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