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Twentieth Century Fox has rolled out a Windows Live Messenger campaign to promote forthcoming film Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who. The campaign allows Windows Live Messenger users to download backgrounds and animated winks, as well as still and display pictures based on the animated film, which is due out ...

Facebook revealed its profile page makeover to the world yesterday, but let’s not forget that this ever-popular social network still has a ways to go in order to catch MySpace. Many of the changes we’ve seen Facebook undergo in recent weeks have been the rolling out of new features that ...

A not so insignificant problem with Facebook is with the advent of the “Pirate vs. Ninja” style Facebook application, the profiles of Facebook denizens have started to get a little cluttered. Wanting to dodge the MySpace bullet, they’ve set up profile pages with a new tabbed system to segregate out ...

Sony Pictures UK has launched a Rambo Facebook Game as a cross promotion for the local release of the new Rambo movie. Full Article: TechCrunch

The folks at CBS seem to be happy with the acquisition of music-sharing and recommendation site Last.fm. The company has released the numbers today, and it looks like Last.fm has sustained 59% growth while increasing page views, which have gone up to 58%. That equals a reported 21 million ...

Is Facebook losing steam in the UK? Has the network reached its plateau? Or is a reported dip in user numbers between December ’07 and January ’08 simply seasonal? Full Article: Mashible 

With all the major social networks / online services now having pretty strong API's to access their users content, should we not start connecting all these assets into one place? For example if a client has a YouTube channel with all their video assets and a Flikr profile with all ...

Developer Analytics (dA) is a new service that provides detailed statistics for Facebook applications, competing with the likes of Adonomics and Facebook’s in-house stats program – Insights. While it includes the same basic data such as total installs, daily active users and trends over time, it takes analytics to ...

The BBC is the first UK broadcaster to offer TV programmes on iTunes, following a deal between BBC Worldwide and the Apple-owned store Full Article: NMA

LONDON - Apple has come a step closer to entering the $28.5bn (£14bn) video games market, in a move that could see the computer giant go head-to-head with Sony PlayStation and Nintendo. Full Article: Apple signals intent to make video games debut

Inside Facebook has a guest post this morning authored by a Facebook application developer. Phil Edwards, the Director of Business Development at Lonely CEO Media, took the opportunity to remind his peers that they cannot neglect their customers once their applications launch. Full Article: Mashable

When creating a website, especially a blog where content is being updated on a weekly basis you should really include a sitemap.xml file within your site and register this with Google. Google provides a service called Google Webmaster Tools here you can register your sitemap.xml file to keep Google ...

The Resident Evil Competition goes live tomorrow! users have been building up the strength and agility of their zombies so that they can survive the day. All the zombies from the site will be released onto advertising on six sites at 9am tomorrow morning. Alice the main character will then kill ...

A simple way of tracking the buzz around a campaign would be to use a Google Blog Search RSS feed. If you retrieved all the results from a specific search you could then see updates as more people started posting about the site. Here is an example of an RSS ...

Toshiba has announced that it will no longer be manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, so this leaves Sony's Blu-Ray format as the victor in the optical disk war. Was this really a relevant war though, or are digital downloads now set to kill Blu-Ray? With Apple last month adding movie rentals to ...

Mashible had the idea of creating a simple valentines day competition. Where all people had to do was write "@mashable <3" in Twitter. A very simple campaign. Full Article: Mashible