The site should benefit as a growing user database and content expansion drives greater user engagement.
The strategy also involves leveraging the user database of competitors, like Facebook.
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How fast can it grow if Google adds its skills at ad sales, email (gmail) use, user database analytics, networking connections and technology wizardry?
LulSec explained that it was unable to make the entire user database available, however it released a portion of it, totalling roughly 50, 000 users.
In a move both clever and magnanimous, the photo sharing service has figured out how to use their own user database to allow Instagram images to be easily shared on Twitter.
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According to the Naked Security blog, which cites Hacker News as the source of its story, an anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, along with names and email addresses of people registered to SonyMusic.gr.
From then on, any time the user clicks on a Web site, program or database that requires its own user ID and password, the software issues the proper credentials, all in the background, without the user having to lift a finger or remember a word.
Applications act as a front end interface for a user, while the database is where the data is actually stored.
In 1999, DoubleClick tried to create a database of user profiles that would include personal information like names and addresses.
Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
Top Prospect sifted through 2.5 million user profiles in its database.
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So does DoubleClick, a data-mining ad "network" that monitors behavior on 1, 400 Web sites and has more than 80 million user profiles in its database.
The system, developed specifically for SB Nation, enables robust commenting and forums while also linking disparate sites with single-user accounts and a database of players, teams and topics.
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Participate in the analysis of user requirements and their translation into database models and the implementation of software applications.
With a database of over 75 million user reviews and opinions, TripAdvisor is one of the most popular travel review websites.
The new Google Places search function allows LEAF owners to look for area restaurants, shops and other points of interest and browse user reviews using Google's POI database to get the most up-to-date information at all times.
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Another feature called "Expert On-Demand, " sorts through a company's database of experts to create a video connection between a user--say, a confused customer in a bank's branch office--and the person best suited to answer his or her questions on any given topic.
To the user, it should appear seamless--one organization, one computer, one database, if you will.
Second, the original database contains all the clicks of each of the 25, 000 Internet user for the period going from January 1st, 2011 to December 31st, 2011.
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We are a big user, and it always bothered me that we have to clean and maintain our own database of accounts when every other Salesforce customer is doing the same thing.
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However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.
Without the software, if a college or business wanted to subscribe to some kind of online database, they'd have to create hundreds or thousands of accounts, one for each individual user.
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