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Google has updated their search algorithm so that ‘content farms’ and sites with duplicated content get less hits. Internet users trying to find better info are happy, but there are many sites that feel they were unfairly targeted.

I would have to say that each of us have our good and bad days with regards to our physical attributes, which is why New iPhone App Makes It Easy To Take A Picture of Yourself Every Day by Megan O’Neill is an excellent read. In Megan’s article, she discusses an application called Everyday – an application that prompts you to take a picture of yourself every single day. Check the article out below, as well as other top articles of the week.

Tapjoy, a company that provides monetization and distribution services, released today that they have a new way for independent developers to evolve their games into profitable and popular titles. According to the company, they plan to invest their resources and capital into pre-launch games that have the potential to become successful. If a game is chosen, it will receive monthly marketing credits to acquire new users through Tapjoy’s network of over 100 million social gamers and 200 million mobile consumers.

In the THR article, Fithian went further to say that studio “shot themselves in the foot” by allowing Netflix and Redbox to teach consumers they can get movies in their homes cheaply.

Mui points out that Hastings built the DVD business that toppled Blockbuster. He was motivated by a big idea “that mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video.”

“We are not here to compete with the other social networking mega sites, like Facebook or MySpace, we are here to give the musicians and music lovers a social networking website of their own,” says new CEO, Jason Pomales.

Zombie Lane, a new social game for Facebook by Digital Chocolate, brings the zombie craze to the social realm. Unlike other zombie games, Zombie Lane adds a little humor to the scenario — as if zombie fighting was a serious matter in the first place. The good news, however, is that Zombie Lane is currently recruiting players from around the globe to take back the neighborhood from endless waves of killer zombies.

Search Engine Optimization is becoming a real consideration for companies looking for the extra edge online. As JC Penney has learned, however, not anything goes in the attempt to attract the world to your online home.

SeeMeBecomeFamous.com (SMBF) is calling itself unique in that it’s a social network talent search and fan site designed to create exposure for talent and will soon be the destination spot for the hottest new talent worldwide. Are you listening American Idol and X-Factor?

So now, we have a statistic called “underage social networking site users.” So, kids lie about their real age. A good guess is that many parents allow their children to “make believe” they are older.