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Yep. It really happened. An ad appeared on the Google homepage.
 

When Facebook Lite launched just under two weeks ago, my immediate reaction was a sigh of relief, followed by the question “how long will it take them to trash up this one, too?” When I asked that question, I fully expected to find out by Christmas. I thought wrong.

[UPDATE]: Earlier today (Tues., 21 July), Jay Adelson posted an official statement on Digg’s blog detailing the company’s position on the diggbar issue. It reads as follows:

Hey everyone,
I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we’ve stated in the [...]

Facebook’s received a lot of attention in the three days since I posted about their use of users’ profile pictures in ads. Numerous blogs have covered the story since, including both DownloadSquad and Mashable, which invariably led to enough of a ruckus that Facebook felt inclined to address the matter.
David Swain, of the Product and [...]