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In case you were not aware, online video is popular. The number of unique viewers from last month was up 10.5 percent from the previous year, but down slightly from the month before, according to Friday data from Nielsen. CNN, Microsoft, and AOL saw large gains, though YouTube, Yahoo, and Facebook were the top online brands ranked by unique viewers. Unique viewers were up from 127.6 million in February 2009 to 141 million in February 2010

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Netflix has ditched plans for a sequel to its million dollar prize as part of a lawsuit settlement regarding the use of members’ personal information. The DVD-rental company has settled a lawsuit about the sequel for an undisclosed sum and concluded a privacy inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission, Netflix said. “In light of all this, we have decided to not pursue the Netflix Prize sequel,” Neil Hunt, chief product officer for Netflix, said in a blog post . The Netflix Prize was announced in 2006.

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Twitter this week provided more details on its location-based tweets, an opt-in feature for U.S. users that started showing up on certain accounts earlier this week. “Tweet With Your Location” lets you tell followers where you are when you’re tweeting. You can provide specific coordinates or just a general region, depending on your preferences

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One of the things that I miss the most when I use Chrome instead of Firefox is its ability to save open tabs when I close or restart the browser, and to know reliably that if the browser crashes, my session would be saved so I can go right back to work when I open it again. Google Chrome has some basic session saving that’s hit or miss on browser crashes and doesn’t offer you the ability to save your open tabs when you close the browser. Enter Session Buddy , a Chrome extension that provides more predictable and more functional tab and session management.

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If you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro connected to an external display, or you have an iMac or Mac Pro with multiple displays, you can configure which display is the default and which display has the menu bar on it in the Display System Preferences pretty easily. However, if you’re using one display as the default but you’re working in another, moving back and forth to access items in the menu bar can be annoying. SecondBar is a Mac OS X utility that fixes that problem by putting a menu bar on each connected display for easy access. SecondBar is free and in open beta, but only supports Mac OS 10.6, “Snow Leopard.” Once you have it installed, you have control over the look and feel of the menu bar on both of your displays. The utility makes the menu bars draggable and allows you to easily adjust the transparency of the menu bars on both screens

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Remember Wave? It was the Google app that was getting everyone’s dander up before users refocused their ire against Buzz. The company this week introduced an extensions gallery for Wave, giving developers a distribution for their third-party plug-ins. “The gallery is simply a set of waves containing extension installers (the puzzle pieces),” Wave product manager Dan Peterson wrote in a post on its developer blog . “The first wave, ‘Read me first’ contains an introduction to extensions and how to use them

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A new comScore study shows that 17.1 percent of cell phone subscribers visited a social networking site or blog in January 2010, compared with 13.8 percent in October 2009, according to MediaPost . This follows last week’s report that Facebook and Twitter usage on cell phones has skyrocketed in the past year, while MySpace use is beginning to fade. The report said that despite the growth in mobile social networking, texting remains the dominant means of data communication on cell phones, with nearly two thirds (63.5 percent) of users sending or receiving messages in January, up from 62 percent in October. The other thing to note here–and it’s not in the study–is that well-known desktop brands like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and YouTube cross over to mobile well, whereas dedicated mobile social networking services usually go nowhere (with the exception of Foursquare, Loopt, and a few others)

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This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but a new

Want to buy the latest gadget – like, right now? Well, a new version of Google’s mobile Product Search will alert you if an item that you are searching for is sitting in a nearby store just waiting to be purchased. Google has teamed up with stores like Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm to include information about their inventory in search results. Looking for the latest point-and-shoot camera

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Is your broadband service really as fast as advertised? Are you living in an area that can’t even get high-speed service? The FCC wants to know. The commission this week launched a broadband testing tool that will let you test your connection quality or alert the FCC if you live somewhere without broadband access. The Consumer Broadband Test is now live on broadband.gov and a mobile version – the FCC’s first mobile app – is available through the Apple and Android app stores

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