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A lot of things have prevented mobile advertising from becoming widespread; think phone tech, consumers' reactions, and advertisers' reluctance, to name a few.  Now, it looks like the list has grown longer, as the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group have sent the FTC a formal complaint.

Facebook users may be glad to know that the social network is rid of a few neo-Nazi groups this morning.  After a protest arose over some anti-gypsy pages, Facebook pulled the things, citing terms of use that forbid intimidation and harassment.

Internet forums can be invaluable resources; they're where experts on all sorts of subjects gather to discuss problems and new developments, or simply make friends.  So it's more than a little important that the Google Groups site now attempts to return search results from all over the Internet.

Free Press, the organization behind SaveTheInternet.com, responded to the Federal Communications Commission's expressed intent to investigate Comcast and Verizon Wireless over alleged content blocking. The group urged the FCC to respond quickly in order to protect the free flow of information on all networks.

Mobile Internet access is being hailed as the next great revolution as an estimated 3 billion handheld devices are sold (about 38 per second). Comparatively, less than half that number have fixed, wired connections. But universal access advocates warn that half of the world (or at least the ones in the United States) will not enjoy all the Internet has to offer.

Topics from X Change I’m going to weave in some posts on learnings and discussion resulting from X Change while I finish my SEM Analytics series, and I thought I’d start with one that came out of my SEM Analytics Huddle and so fits right in! We spent a good chunk of time in the SEM Analytics Huddle talking through some basic issues in getting setup for measurement and structuring PPC campaigns to manage and monitor them effectively.

A growing trend in the online world and social media in general is the proliferation of social groups and networks that are taking their services and members offline. Businesses like Yelp, Biznik and many others are looking for ways to maintain their user base and gain new customers. In some cases the company holds sanctioned events and group networking meetings, but members often take it upon themselves to set up networking events. This is slowly creating more tight knit communities that are great for meeting people for general purposes and for networking.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and US Public Interest Research Group (US PRIG), are about as happy about the Google DoubleClick deal as Microsoft was, but for different reasons.