NYTimes.com: December 31, 2008 Writing the Web's Future in Numerous Languages By DANIEL SORID The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not be written in English alone. Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America,...
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Here is a nice post from the ">Official Google Blog about how Google took over the Santa tracking efforts on the Web. Yes Virginia. Even Santa has been Googlized....
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Everything is Miscellaneous: If you log into your Google account when searching (you can tell if you're logged in by seeing if it puts your login name at the top of the page), Google has enhanced its results page with...
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NYTimes.com: Bits Blog calls this a "Defining Moment of 2008: Google's offer to help Yahoo fend off Microsoft's hostile takeover bid." This is a nice summary....
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NYTimes.com: Online Ads to Thrive in a Lousy Economy By Miguel Helft Most retailers, online and offline, appear to be feeling the pain from the rotten economy. But, of course, even in bad times, some businesses manage to do well....
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Everything is ... NYTimes.com has come a looong way. At first, all the links on the site pointed to more of its own content, except for ads, as if the NYT was the only place ever worth reading. Then the...
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Harvard Business Review: Facebook's Profound Strategic Error Posted by Umair Haque on May 6, 2008 8:40 PM Over the last year or so, I spent a great deal of time discussing in somewhat painful detail Facebook's relentless evilness; and how,...
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Catharine P. Taylor: ... It's no secret Google has aspirations that go far beyond being the king of online advertising. It is currently applying versions of its automated, accountable ad buying model to radio, TV and print. The long-term...
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RoughType:Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date...
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Newsweek: Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA of the most important agencies created to protect innovation, is an almost irresistible urge to protect the most powerful instead. The FCC...
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NYTImes.com: Your Privacy Is Protected Only if You Are Really Sick By Saul Hansell The advertising trade group that proposed that people with cancer deserve more privacy protections than those with heart disease has adopted a new version of its...
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Information Week: Street View Panned By Japanese Privacy Group Such concerns have arisen more from the data Google gathers through its search engine. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Dec. 19, 2008 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501472 A Japanese privacy group has asked Google to...
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Chris Soghoian: December 17, 2008 6:00 AM PST Google censors political-donation transparency ads Posted by Chris Soghoian Should members of the public be able to pay for Web advertisements detailing which companies have donated to politicians? While this seems...
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Isen.blog: Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality Today's Wall Street Journal has a bogus, misleading story claiming that Google has been making deals with telephone and cable carriers that violate Network Neutrality. My bullshit detector was triggered by paragraph five,...
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Yahoo! press release: Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data Retention Policy SUNNYVALE, Calif. & London, Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a new global...
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As many frequent readers of this blog know, sometimes comments take a while to appear. That's because I keep having to crank up the spam filter. So please be patient if you don't see comments appear soon. I have to...
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If you need any more evidence that Rupert Murdoch's low standards of evidence are infecting what was until recently the greatest newspaper in the world, you only need to take a look at the fallout from this story in...
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Associated Press: China's Baidu cuts revenue forecast on ad scandal 8 hours ago BEIJING (AP) -- Baidu.com Inc., China's leading search engine, is cutting its projected revenue by up to 15 percent after it dropped some advertisers because of a...
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Washington Post: You've Gotta Think Like Google By Douglas LaBier Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, November 11, 2008; HE01 What are the keys to success and well-being? Being able to manage the stresses of your work and personal life,...
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Washington Post: ... "The vast majority of information is still not searchable or findable either because it's not published or it's on Web sites which the government has put up which no one can index," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy: The Politics of Mass Surveillance and Profiling...
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Larry Lessig's blog was infected by gambling spam (as are so many blogs). Google purged him from the index. He fixed it. But it's still not right....
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Google: 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist As the year comes to a close, it's time to look at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008. As it happens, studying the aggregation of the billions of...
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Timothy Vollmer offers us this great list. Check it out....
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NYTimes.com: November 30, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor How to Publish Without Perishing By JAMES GLEICK THE gloom that has fallen over the book publishing industry is different from the mood in, say, home building. At least people know we'll always need...
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From Google Blog: Search and find magazines on Google Book Search 12/09/2008 09:47:00 AM The word "magazine" is derived from the Arabic word "makhazin," meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of...
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NYTimes.com: David Carr writes: ... If Google owns me, it's probably because I am in favor of what works. "I'm glad to hear it," said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, who was in New York last week....
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Ars Technica: Telecoms and advocacy groups unite over broadband "stimulus" By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 02, 2008 - 08:30PM CT As the sluice gates of stimulus open, proponents of expanded broadband access are hoping the Net will catch some...
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What do you think about Google Friend Connect? What are the costs and benefits of this service? What are the privacy implications?...
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Search Engine Watch: December 2, 2008 Google Buys Digital Historical Newspaper Archives from PaperofRecord.com Google has completed the purchase of 20 million digitized historical newspaper pages from PaperofRecord.com. The two have had an agreement for two years and has now...
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Science: Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship James A. Evans Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print--scientists and...
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Chronicle.com: New European Digital Library Proves Too Popular Too many people are excited about Europeana, a pan-European digital library, archive, and museum. Last week, when the project's prototype Web site debuted, it got 10 million hits per hour -- and...
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Wired.com: PayPerPost founder and Izea CEO Ted Murphy is unfazed by Google's changes to the PageRank of many of his top bloggers. All Google had to do was futz with its search algorithm, and the entire PayPerPost world was thrown...
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CNET: Why Obama should ditch YouTube Posted by Chris Soghoian President-elect Barack Obama has now posted his second weekly address to YouTube, and it has already gotten more than 411,000 views. A week ago, I criticized the use of...
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You may have noticed that I have posted nothing here for about three weeks. You also may have noticed that this is the third blackout this site has had since July. I apologize for the silence. In the past three...
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