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Can Israel survive for another 60 years? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
via www.slate.com by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
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More ways to find what you're looking for
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 14, 2008
Posted by Christoph Oehler, Product ManagerYou may have noticed a bit of a theme with some of our recent announcements, such as mapped web pages and geotagged YouTube videos -- we want you to be able to view any information in its geographic context. But we realized that an important step is making that information easier to find, so we've now added a new button to Google Maps:The "More"...
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NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 14, 2008
Overstock.com has terminated its contracts with affiliates based in New York in response to the state’s recently enacted “Amazon Tax”. The drastic move is likely the first of many, as online retailers display their objection to the new law.The backlash comes in response to New York’s misguided attempt to collect taxes from online shoppers. Up until now, online retailers have only had to...
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Street View revisits Manhattan
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 13, 2008
Posted by Andrea Frome, Software Engineer In the last couple months, we've brought you 14 new Street View cities. Now we're touching up Manhattan, one of the first locations we launched. The new imagery, which will be available in a few hours, is more recent. For example, we now have the appropriately-named New Museum in the Bowery in its near-complete state:We also have sharper images...
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Hyping Joker -- Without Exploiting Heath's Death - Advertising Age - News
via adage.com by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by kskobac I'm more surprised to learn about all of the viral marketing programs that took place over the last few months without me knowingHeath Ledger's death left studio executives in charge of "Dark Knight" with a conundrum: How to market the film without appearing crassly exploitative.
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Music Industry Downfall, Part II: The Rise of Social Streaming
via Compete Blog by Alex Patriquin on May 12, 2008
If any industry has felt the brunt of the internet as a disruptive technology, it’s the music industry, which has been dealt a heavy blow by the onset of digital music distribution. On the April 28, the RIAA again confirmed this state of affairs when reporting that CD sales, the mainstay of the business for the last 15 years, were down a whopping 20.5% in 2007. Then on May 2, a Federal Court...
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Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 12, 2008
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by...
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Apple Close to Announcing Special Deal to Bring HBO to iTunes
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on May 12, 2008
Apple has for a long time remained adamant that its pricing structures within the iTunes Store - be it for music, television programs, or movies - keep to simple standards. Songs are $0.99 a piece. Television programs run $1.99 per episode. Film purchases are $9.99-14.99. Rentals are $2.99-4.99, depending on one’s preference for titles new or old, and whether one wishes to view such titles in...
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Wii Fit: the 30 day test starts today
via Engadget by Ryan Block on May 09, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsSince about 20,000 people -- the overwhelming majority of voters in yesterday's poll -- apparently want to see me in pain trying to get in shape with Wii Fit, it looks like it's time to suck it up and do this thing. Although I'd like to start by disclaiming that I've never really worked out with any regularity, I'm not exactly known for my...
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Google Translate Becomes the Best Free Online Translator
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 08, 2008
Google Translate's coverage has been expanded dramatically. It now supports the translation between any of the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (the new languages are shown in bold). From 26 language...
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