Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves — The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released …
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Can Powerset give MS a new search strategy?
InfoWorld, CA - One possibility: an engine that does a good job searching multimedia content, and not just tags or captions. … A search engine that allows consumers to … |
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 Promotion World (press release) |
Learn About Critical Areas on a Website that a Search Engine…
Promotion World (press release), CA - by Scott Buresh So, you are the marketing manager of your firm, and you've finally decided to pull the trigger and hire the search engine optimization… |
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Combo Wants to be the Social Network Hub for Your iPhone
Washington Post, United States - Combo, a new startup that is looking to offer users a central hub for communication across their social networks, isn't any of these things. … |
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Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses.Yelp almost immediately caught on organically in San Francisco, but founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons ran into some early criticism. Rumors [...]
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USA: Moi-Meme Attire Launches "Offline Social Networking" Series
BharatTextile.com (subscription), India - Moi-Meme Attire , the women's custom-tailored clothing business, recently held its first event in a series aimed at creating an "offline social networking" … |
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Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory
TechCrunch, CA - Google is one with AdSense and search ads. Each search ad is insignificant in and of itself, but all of those obscure terms add up to billions of dollars. … |
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple lops $500 off the price of SSD-based MacBook Air — With the price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline, Apple Inc. this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand, AppleInsider has discovered.
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Asad Sheth has been playing with a Starfield Sim Picasa Gallery using Prototype. He said:I think it’s an interesting way to think about temporally organized data (I could see RSS feeds navigated through some similar mechanism, with the z-axis being time and the x- and y-axes being some kind of similarity measure), and further display [...]
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Arn / MacRumors:
1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500 — Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. — The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598.
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Microsoft launches enterprise social network
ComputerWeekly.com, UK - Microsoft has launched a social networking community for businesses, allowing them to connect with other companies to share skills and expertise. … |
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TheDudeDean, aka “The Greatest Living American Dude” has come in 1st Place in SecondBrain.com’s “Top SecondBrainer” contest and won a MacBook Air by a mear 15 votes. Not only did Dean have the most positive votes, he also garnered the most negative votes.
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Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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Jesus in MySpace: Churches use social-networking sites
Associated Baptist Press, FL - By Rachel Mehlhaff (ABP) — Social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are redefining the way many Americans build and maintain relationships — and … |
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