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Bug Bytes is a weekly roundup of the Web’s best links, blog posts, and news articles related to web design, application development, and online marketing. Continue the conversation and share your thoughts on these stories in the comments below – we’d love to hear your own insights!
Bug Bytes is a weekly roundup of the Web’s best links, blog posts, and news articles related to web design, application development, and online marketing. Continue the conversation and share your thoughts on these stories in the comments below – we’d love to hear your own insights!
Yelp Targets Foursquare, Facebook With Check-In Offers
Yelp continues to update their platform by adding new, competing features —“check-in offers.” This is similar to what Foursquare and Facebook offer, in which users check in to local business and broadcast to their network of friends. This “check-in” feature essentially gets consumers to advertise the businesses they patronize and rewards them accordingly. Foursquare has had success establishing check-in deals for “mayors,” securing partnerships with Starbucks, Pizza Hut, and many other businesses. Facebook, since introducing its “Places” platform, has successfully brought local social networking to the mainstream, and is in the process of working out deals, as well.
Google’s Q3 earnings have sparked a lot of debate and speculation from the online marketing community, calling Google out as a “one-trick pony,” only able to capitalize on its most valuable product, AdWords. While their numbers point to a dependency on its advertising network, Google is pursuing new and innovative ventures to help increase revenue and potentially diversify its revenue stream. What Google is going after most aggressively is the mobile search market.
Microsoft and Facebook announced a new feature for Bing‘s search results. The two companies are collaborating to integrate information from your Facebook friends into your Bing results pages. Because Microsoft owns a stake in Facebook (MS invested $240 million in Facebook back in 2007), this represents a competitive advantage for the Microsoft-branded search engine that can’t be replicated by Google, the champion of search engine market share.
Does Samsung have an iPad killer hidden up its sleeve? Is Facebook more popular than Google? Is Vim a total waste of time? Will the Hulk be able to save Ricky before the carbon monoxide kicks in? The only way to find out is to click on every single link below.
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