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  2. The Million Dollar Homepage - Wikipedia

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    The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $ 1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks ...

  3. Avatar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A Twitter post, with the user's profile picture. In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona. Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures, userpics, or formerly picons (personal icons, or possibly ...

  4. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.

  5. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone aged 13 and older with a valid email address. [7] [8] Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract potential customers and tell about themselves.

  6. Does Yahoo! Want to Ride the Facebook Boom? - AOL

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    Major news websites are getting increasingly more of their traffic from Facebook . AOL's Huffington Post, an online newspaper, pioneered the world's most social-friendly news website by centering ...

  7. Why Facebook and Yahoo! Need to Start Talking - AOL

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    For a time on Sunday, the tech world went nuts over the prospect of Facebook (NAS: FB) and Yahoo! (NAS: YHOO) working on a search deal. London's The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that Sheryl ...

  8. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was Google’s first female ...

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    Marissa Mayer is most well-known for her stint as CEO of Yahoo, but before she took the helm of the tech giant, she took a serendipitous dive into the unknown by joining a then little-known ...

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