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- Google Revamps Search With Massive ‘Real-World Map of Things’
Google has built a knowledge base of 500 million persons, places and things - and it's bringing big changes to a search page near you. - Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?
After just eight years in existence, Facebook has more than 750 million users and is on the cusp to becoming a medium unto itself. Can anything take down the social networking giant? - Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet
Kevin Hartz, one of Silicon Valley's savviest angel investors and CEO of Eventbrite, is sitting this investment cycle out. - The A/B Test Results Are In
Employing the A/B testing methodology, gaming site IGN is constantly modifying its site looking for those small changes in wording, placement, even color and form that will yield huge increases in click-through rates. Here are seven tweaks IGN made to its homepage. - Test Everything: Notes on the A/B Revolution
How A/B testing, the practice of performing real-time experiments on a site’s live traffic, came to rule the web. And why it's seeping into ever-greater swaths of modern life. - Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker on Being the Alternative to Microsoft, Google and Apple
In this interview with Wired, Mitchell Baker looks back on Firefox's success and what it meant — and explains why she thinks Mozilla's new push to create a mobile operating system to rival Apple's and Google's matters just as much as Firefox did.
