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Almost half of ICQ users are in Czech Republic

icq Instant messaging is a popular method of online communication, especially with the younger generation, but it is also starting to gain recognition among corporations. One program called ICQ has found a particular niche in the Czech market.

The name ICQ is derived from the phrase “I seek you.” It is an instant messaging (IM) program developed in Israel and bought by Internet firm AOL (formerly America Online) in 1998 for about $500 million (now Kč 9.1 billion/€ 340 million). Worldwide, ICQ has an estimated 4 million users, but what is surprising is that nearly half of them are in the Czech Republic. “ICQ has 1.8 million users in the Czech Republic, from which 900,000 use the Czech version of this software [distributed by Czech portal Atlas.cz],” said Martin Březina, marketing manager at Atlas.cz. The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Israel account for most ICQ users.

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Tags: Soft, people, Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, aol, icq, messenger, msn, msn messenger, yahoo, yahoo messenger | 1 Comment »

AOL Purchasing Quigo For $300 Million?

AOL is in the process of purchasing targeted ad provider, Quigo, in a deal reported to be worth $300 million. It appears this is an attempt by the Time Warner company to compete with the increased efforts of Google and Yahoo in the advertising marketplace.

The purchase will give AOL two new tools in their arsenal in this increasing advertising war. AdSonar, much like Google’s AdSense,

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AOL to turn wow.com into World of Warcraft site

wow AOL has owned the wow.com domain since 1998 when it was acquired along with other assets of Compuserve. For such a great 3-letter domain name it has been mostly unused since. Now rumors are starting to circulate that AOL has found the perfect (and most obvious) use for the domain, they have transferred the domain to the AOL Games Group to create a World of Warcraft based social network.

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Tags: Gaming, Business, AOL Games Group, Warcraft, World, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft as WoW, aol, wow | 1 Comment »

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube

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smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or “hiccups”.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube accelerates streaming videos from iTunes, Metacafe, DailyMotion and Grouper, with even more sites coming soon! Read the more »

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The Future of RSS

There is little doubt that RSS is a disruptive, game-changing technology. The so called Really Simple Syndication (previously also called Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary), has powered a fundamentally new way to deliver and consume web content. Before RSS, users had to visit individual web sites to find out what was new. Today, news is delivered via RSS directly to web browsers, desktops and aggregators. With RSS, the dynamics of the web changed into an on-demand medium.RSS usage has since spread beyond simple news delivery. Companies like de.licio.us, Flickr and YouTube added another dimension to RSS - i.e. they made it an integral part of the Social Web (social networking, photos, video, etc). Also Google built Google Base, its Craigslist competitor, entirely on RSS. Other companies too are beginning to extend RSS, sometimes with proprietary extensions.