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Nick / Rough Type:
Is the social graph Web 3.0? — Well, it looks like there'll be no escaping the "social graph" term. World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, in a blog post last evening, not only bestowed his blessing on the social graph but elevated it to the capitalized Social Graph, a sign that we have a New Paradigm on our hands.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph — On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage (Techmeme). It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph (which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network …
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Timbl / Decentralized Information Group …:
Giant Global Graph — Well, it has been a long time since the last blog. So many topics, so little time. Some talks, a couple of Design Issues articles, but no blog. To dissipate the worry of expectation of quality, I resolve to lower the bar. More about what I had for breakfast.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn — [Get the RSS feed or see right for the newsletter. Digg this story. Got a story? Get in touch] — An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with media giant News Corporation over a possible buyout in January 2008.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft: XP contains random number generator bug — Microsoft admits recently discovered Windows 2000 flaw exists in XP too — Windows XP, Microsoft's most popular operating system, sports the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently disclosed in Windows 2000, Microsoft officials confirmed late Tuesday.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Thanksgiving Search Engine Logos & Off For The Day — Search Engine Land is taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, and best wishes to all those celebrating today. We'll be back with regular coverage tomorrow. Search engines are celebrating with special logos like those above.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Thanksgiving 2007 from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile & The Search Industry — Today is one of my most favorite holidays, Thanksgiving! This will probably be our only post today, but I wanted to share the logos and search forum threads from around the search industry.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
Happy Thanksgiving! — Hey all, enjoy Thanksgiving Day (even if your country doesn't) and eat lots of turkey with no regard for your health. Or tofurkey, or whatever floats your boat. Just have fun today. — I'm watching the parade on NBC with the wife, and I'm shocked at how much Al Roker keeps mispronouncing everything.
David Pogue / New York Times:
An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On — You've got to have a lot of nerve to introduce an electronic book reader in 2007. — Sure, the idea has appeal: an e-reader lets you carry hundreds of books, search or jump to any spot in the text and bump up the type size when your eyes get tired.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:Kindle sells out in 5.5 hours
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Alice Miles / Times of London:
The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software — The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant's core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop business.
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas? — Political action and consumer advocacy organization MoveOn this week launched a public campaign against Facebook's new Project Beacon advertising system (our coverage). MoveOn characterizes the ad system as "a huge invasion of privacy" …
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Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
Giving Thanks for...Facebook? — In this season of giving thanks, Netizens feel grateful for the sense of connectedness and reconnectedness brought by online social networks. The big news, after all, isn't that our Facebook profiles will soon turn into virtual Tupperware parties but rather that we can use them to stay in touch.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate — Facebook and Google have been competing with each over more than just social networking. Facebook is growing from 300ish employees today to 700 next year. And the best place to get good engineers and others is Google …
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Times of India:
Sony to introduce Playstation phone — 20 Nov, 2007, 1645 hrs IST,Ritwik Donde, TNN — MUMBAI: Watch out Apple and Google, Sony may just surprise the world with a 'Playstation Phone'. The Japanese company is toying with the idea of developing a 'Playstation phone' that will combine …
Royal Pingdom:
Microsoft's social network clocking the most downtime — Social networks are more popular than ever, and are flourishing in the Web 2.0 era. With their huge user numbers, it is very important for these websites to have a high availability. For the largest social networks …
