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The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet - Why I Want Microsoft to Be Competitive in Search
via Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer by ryanstewart on May 24, 2008
Yesterday was one of the scariest days I’ve had in a long time and it put in total perspective the power that Google wields. It also made me hope that every single company with an idea about how to improve search, including Microsoft, continues to try and beat Google. I was working on a blog post and was searching for something I’d written before so that I could reference it. Instead of using...
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Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 25, 2008
Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg, but SitePoint's anecdote demonstrates that sometimes the wisdom of crowds approach is, well, kind of dumb. Now is probably a good time to revisit...
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Conversation ownership and the FriendFeed backlash.
via Colin Walker by Colin on May 25, 2008
The argument over conversation ownership and fragmentation has taken another twist.Rob La Gesse became unhappy that the conversation around his posts was happening on FriendFeed and so he removed his account from the aggregator. The only problem is that removing all these parent items also removes all of the comments associated with them - Scoble wasn’t happy and called Rob out on it.Rob...
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New York: No Comment
via Observer.com - All Articles by Matt Haber on May 25, 2008
"Brownstoner’s posts tend to read like the reportage of a particularly smart and opinionated community paper. The comment section, by contrast, has become a rolling transcript of the borough’s new anxieties, shameful prejudices, and secret fears. For a long time, those anxieties centered on being left out or pushed out—hopeful buyers or displaced renters thwarted by prices rising out of...
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A new business model for Twitter?
via The Blog Herald by Matt Craven on May 25, 2008
Brian Alvey believes that he’s found an actual business model for Twitter:The way I see it, the most the Twitter user base needs Twitter to be running smoothly is about fourteen hours a day. That leaves ten hours a day of those cute “please try again later” screens. As long as they can continue to add more people than they lose every day, I could see what I have in mind being a sustainable...
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Rock Band songs need more flexibility
via Tech Bytes by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
By Peter Nowak, CBCnews.caA number of news stories have popped up over recent weeks telling of how bands are making good money off selling songs through the Rock Band and Guitar Hero video games. To the uninitiated, here's how those games work: players use plastic instruments to play along with songs on screen. To keep the games fresh and players interested, their makers have been offering up...
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The Homeless Billionaire
via Neatorama by (author unknown) on May 23, 2008
Shared by Fernando B exatamente o q eu faria se a loteria me premiasse... :-PMeet Nicholas Berggruen, a homeless billionaire. You read that right. Nicholas is worth billions but doesn’t even own a home (he stays in hotels) because he’s lost all interest in acquiring things:After making his billions, Mr. Berggruen, 46, lost interest in acquiring things: They didn’t satisfy him, and in fact...
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Top BitTorrent TV Downloads This Week
via NewTeeVee by Chris Albrecht on May 24, 2008
... (2003)179Ugly Betty1834Family Guy1935Jericho2040CSIMaybe ABC should reconsider allowing embeds of full episodes of its shows. ABC programming occupies four of the top five BitTorrented TV show downloads for the week ending May 19th, according to Big Champagne, which is going to regularly supply this data to NewTeeVee.It looks like Britney’s boost to How I Met Your Mother extended into t...
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Tipjoy: Why Didn't it Take Off? Pathology of a Floundering Web 2.0 Startup
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
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Blogging--It's Good for You [Scientific American Magazine] (3)
via RSSmeme by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Evaristo cheaper than psychotherapySelf-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and...
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