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* Love it, hate it. How about using it to the max? It, being Internet Explorer. [WebWorkerDaily]
* Turn Gmail into your social brain. [WebWorkerDaily]
* JA Solar, a symbol of Solar investment bubble. [Earth2Tech]
* MSN Video has precision, but no passion. [NewTeeVee]
* Need a web strategy for China? We got three tips. [FoundRead]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview Web Strategist, blogger, and Found|READ contributor, Jeremiah Owyang . He talked about all the things he learned on a recent business tour of Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

Turns out he learned a lot, and not just about these three geographies. From conversations with dozens of entrepreneurs in those […]

Almost four-fifths of Sweden’s population uses the Internet compared to just over 20 percent of Brazil’s, yet Brazil has beaten Sweden handily on at least one measure: Google availability. Uptime monitoring company Pingdom reports that from Sept. 1, 2006 to Sept. 1, 2007, Brazilians were only without Google (GOOG) for three minutes, while those in […]

What will the next generation of social networking sites look like? Zude, a startup based in Roslyn, N.Y., thinks the answer lies with customization, and as such is offering a platform that is part social, with a community of member pages, but also part web mashup, with a drag-and-drop design application that lets users drag […]

Like mushrooms after a monsoon, Facebook-specific ad networks keep sprouting everywhere. Latest to join the Facebook gold rush is Appfuel, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a way to target ads inside Facebook apps using keywords.

The five-person, angel-funded company says it is less a network, and more a platform that allows better […]

Owning an Apple (AAPL) iPhone is a real test of patience, and often a full-on, teeth-gnashing exercise. Be it the slow email access, lack of battery longevity, or simply the dictates of King Jobs, you really have to love the device to put up with the shortcomings becoming typical of all Apple 1.0 products.

The […]