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Google’s new Web browser, Chrome, is key to the company’s push to connect its myriad Web offerings and become an integrated online service provider. That said, writing it off a month after its release — based partly on figures that show a decline in downloads — seems more Schadenfreude than sober analysis. Chrome’s share of the overall market peaked on Sept. 4 at 1.16 percent, according to NetApplications. By Oct. 5, that number had dropped to 0.81 percent. Usage appears to have stabilized at about .7 percent.

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Chrome’s Tiny Market Share Dwindles as Experimenters Head Home

One of Facebook’s two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin Moskovitz announced he’ll leave the social networking site in about a month. He and colleague Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager who previously worked at Google, will launch a new enterprise software business. Moskovitz first formed Facebook with CEO and close friend Mark Zuckerberg while the two were students and roommates at Harvard in 2004. He has been one of its biggest cheerleaders over the years and is the latest in a string of execs to part ways in the past several months.

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Facebook’s Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More

Competition for building a profitable Web site is quite fierce. Yet many of us have dreams of a unique concept that will attract viewers, followed soon thereafter by advertisers. I’m not sure what percentage of aspirants succeed in this quest, but I would venture to guess that it’s a very low percentage. With the evolution of the Web to the Web 2.0, the task becomes even a bit more challenging. Though the competition is fierce in the Web 2.0 space, it’s encouraging to see a recently formed company quickly create critical mass.

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Building a Profitable Web 2.0 Web Site

“[R]ailhead may actually degrade the ability to provide intelligence data for use in the consolidated terrorist watch list,” according to the U.S. House subcommittee report. This massive government IT project is failing — and it’s not an isolated case. Large IT projects in agencies from the FBI to the Census Bureau spectacularly — and, it seems, regularly — crash and burn, much to taxpayers’ disgust. It seems there are certain aspects of government culture that make IT failure more likely. It just may be that it’s built into the system.

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Signposts on the US Government’s Trail of IT Failures

Cyber Monday, once considered the No. 1 shopping day for e-commerce and retail Web sites, has become the official kickoff to the holiday season and a key marketing event for the online community. As with any economic marker, it is vulnerable to credit crunches and significant financial tide changes. Just as weather predictions help us to plan accordingly, knowing what to expect from holiday shoppers during the highest selling season of the year enables online merchants to prepare properly.

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Cyber Monday Is Not Extinct - It Has Evolved