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Times of London:
Google. Who's looking at you? — It wants to know everything about you. It wants to be your best friend — or your Big Brother. Are your secrets safe with Google? — John Arlidge — In the blissed-out California sunshine, the glistening glass-and-steel curves of the Googleplex seem …
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Bharat Mediratta / New York Times:
The Google Way: Give Engineers Room — GOOGLE engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that if you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it. — It sounds obvious …
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Journalistopia
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Powerset Testing Search Results At Mechanical Turk — A reader noticed that stealth search engine Powerset is using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service to gauge user reactions to search results. — See the screen shot (click for larger view) - users are shown a query and a number of results …
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UMBC ebiquity
Nick / Rough Type:
For Wal-Mart, too, IT is a commodity — "I never viewed computers as anything more than necessary overhead," Sam Walton once said. Nevertheless, after I wrote "IT Doesn't Matter" back in 2003, critics would routinely present Wal-Mart as the killer counter example to my argument …
Nick / Rough Type:
The business case for TimesSelect — Last month, the New York Times discontinued TimesSelect, the program that required readers to pay a subscription fee to read popular columnists and access the paper's archives. The news was greeted with whoops and hollers from the members of the web's hallelujah chorus …
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Tim Harford / The Undercover Economist:
Undercover Economist column: Did you pay to read this? — Until recently, there were two types of newspaper website: those that made you pay to read many of the articles (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times) and those that didn't. — That is changing.
Todd Cochrane / Geek News Central:
Why Tech Blogging is Broken — Last night I attended a book launch party here in Honolulu. At that party I met a marketing person from a SEO startup who told me a little about what they were doing in the search optimization space. I found it very intriguing and as competition is very tough …
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FactoryCity, Scobleizer, odd time signatures, SmoothSpan Blog, WinExtra, ParisLemon, MediaVidea, Mark Evans and Mashable!
Howard Owens:
The culture of infallibility inhibits newspaper innovation — Yesterday at the closing panel of the Online News Association conference, Anil Dash and Josh Cohn of Google talked about the newspaper industry's failure to embrace change. — Anil made this astute observation, "Journalism is the culture of infallibility."
Susan Crawford blog:
Comcast Is Pretending to be You — This AP story makes clear that Comcast is pretending to be part of online conversations in order to frustrate users who want to use particular online applications. This happens all the time in the name of "traffic shaping" — it's the kind of thing that China does to interfere with internet use.
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The Technology Liberation …, isen.blog, The Great American Blog, michael parekh on IT and Skype Journal
Judith Chevalier / New York Times:
In Search of Wireless Wiggle Room — I RECENTLY watched a YouTube clip of a young man removing the memory chip from his iPhone with his teeth, in an attempt to "unlock" the device for use on a network other than the AT&T system for which the phone was exclusively sold.
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Katie Allen / Guardian:
Major pirate website shut down — One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV shows. — The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest …
Google News Blog:
Google News goes social — Whether it is from our homepage, one of our RSS feeds, or on a mobile device, Google News seeks to connect people with the news that matters to them — wherever they may be. As part of that goal we are pleased to announce the Google News Application for Facebook.
Mark Boslet / Mercury News:
UN telecom panel endorses Intel's WiMax technology — ITU'S SUPPORT COULD HELP OPEN DOOR TO ITS USE IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES — Intel's wireless technology WiMax got a boost Friday when a United Nations telecommunications panel approved its use as a third-generation mobile technology.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
CSI:NY Comes To Second Life Wednesday — Second Life is bracing itself for an influx of new members this coming week with the long awaited episode of CSI:NY does Second Life to be shown in the United States on Wednesday. — The episode will see Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) …
