MySpace Joining Google’s OpenSocial — We hear Google is planning to announce yet another partner to its anti-Facebook coalition today — News Corp.’s MySpace. [Haven't confirmed]. Look for an announcement by the end of the day. This makes a lot of sense for both sides …
Source: Silicon Alley Insider
Author: Peter Kafka
Link: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/myspace-joining…
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In the fluid and dynamic World Wide Web arena, it is critical to continually innovate to stay ahead of the competition. Herein, European companies and governments are working feverishly to bring the next generation of internet technology to market, before the U.S.
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Google’s Internal Tool to Check Search Results? — Just a note : I’ve photoshopped the screenshot, so the numbers are real but not for “www.ffp.asso.fr” ;-) — Tom, does that include all numbers displayed alongside www.ffp.asso.fr, or just the GG Score? — the bottom lines are real, but they are not related to the results.
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The New York Times’ Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer? — Last night, the New York Times quietly launched Blogrunner on the technology section of its main site. Blogrunner was one of many techmeme copycat sites, until the New York Times bought it last year. Like Techmeme, Blogrunner is a service …
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Erick Schonfeld
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The United Nations teamed with technology giants Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. to launch a new Web site Thursday that will provide data and a bird’s eye view of global efforts to fight poverty and meet U.N. development goals by 2015.
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Invention Of the Year: The iPhone — Stop. I mean, don’t stop reading this, but stop thinking what you’re about to think. Or, O.K., I’ll think it for you:
Source: Time
Author: Lev Grossman
Link: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599…
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Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed) — Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. — MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative.
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Michael Arrington
Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/confirmed…
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The board of Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday decided to give shareholders an annual advisory vote on executive pay, becoming one of the first major companies to do so.
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This sounds like a great idea to me.
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Video-game software publisher Electronic Arts Inc. swung to a fiscal second-quarter net loss, hurt by an accounting change, but shares climbed 5 percent after the company outlined a promising product lineup and said it expected to see a “great” holiday season.
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In a backhanded compliment to Apple Inc., online criminals are apparently so impressed with its scorching sales they are sending Macintosh computers an attack typically aimed at machines running Microsoft Corp.’s dominant Windows operating system.
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That god someone has put together this database of cellphone numbers for identification. If you want to find the identity of a crank caller now you can.
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A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs. A great deal of spam has been posted to many Mac forums, in an attempt to lead users to these sites.
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Samsung scientists have figured out how to make LCD panels from ordinary glass plates, the company announced yesterday.
If the process is put into production, it could dramatically reduce the costs of LCD screens for laptops and TVs.
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If you believe Microsoft, then as of last week Facebook is worth $15 billion.
Welcome to the tech bubble 2.0.
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