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- Analysis: What are the Web's Top Sources of Referral Traffic? readwriteweb.com
Not totally convinced by the results shown here but potentially a useful starting point.
- IBM Debuts Food Traceability iPhone App readwriteweb.com
The as yet unreleased iPhone app is called Breadcrumbs and it will give consumers access to information about grocery food items. The app will be able to scan barcodes and deliver a summary of the ingredients in a food item, along with when it was manufactured.
HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to content on the web. Today, the AP announced the completion of the first draft of hNews. In addition, TownNews, announced that is will support hNews in its BLOX content management system, which is being used by over 1,500 newspapers in the US.
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Brilliant.
A new report out today appears to confirm that a broad economic slowdown in the United States is starting to negatively effect the online ad industry.