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AideRSS, an RSS feed filtering service, has recently made available a public API.
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By way of Liz, which demographic group has more than twice the spending power of American teenagers and almost 18 times the spending power of the American “tweens” market.
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Google has launched a major addition to Google Trends named Trends for Web Sites. Trends for Web Sites extends Google Trends by enabling you to search for web site addresses, as opposed to just searching for trends by keyword.
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Google Webmaster Tools allows client applications to view and update site information and Sitemaps in the form of Google Webmaster Tools Data API feeds.
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A nice collection of graphic design links and web design links. A list every designer should check out. You are bound to find some cool new sites from this list.
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Social networks may be part of the reason that low-income students are largely just as technologically proficient as their peers, contradicting parts of a 2005 Pew study that detailed an economic “digital divide.”
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Michael uncovers a huge hole in Google Trends: Stats from Google.com, YouTube.com, and Blogger.com are not being provided. However, stats for competition like Live.com, Yahoo.com, Metacafe.com and Wordpress are fully available. Google = Evil?
The API has actually been out a while, but the Programmable Web coverage is new. Can’t wait to have a whole lot more mashups to add.
Adding PostRank functionality to mainstream applications is awesome and really enriching, but it’s the stuff the third-party devs get up to that really impresses me.