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Wish list time for Twitter: Here's a feature I could really use

So I'm puzzling how to make Twitter more useful to me. Up until now, it's been the equivalent of a school science project. Interesting, but random.

Random in terms of what some twits tweet about. The good stuff is quite good. The bad stuff is a waste of time. Twitter's good, but there's a way to make it great. All we need is a smart developer or two to take it to the next step.

Over the course of any 24-hour period, the dreck outweighs the interesting feeds by a 70-30 margin. Of course, this is … Read more

Circling the wagons around Google

Earlier in the week, ComScore reported that Google's paid clicks dropped 7 percent between December and January. That was enough to panic already nervous shareholders who proceeded to dump Google's stock in one of Wall Street's (increasingly common) panics.

But Friday morning the Internet ratings agency issued a brief statement meant to contradict the impression that it believes Google has sprung a leak.

"...the evidence suggests that the softness in Google's paid click metrics is primarily a result of Google's own quality initiatives that result in a reduction in the number of paid listings … Read more