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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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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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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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MySpace Embraces Data Portability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 08, 2008
MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace “Data Availability” and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of the Internet.A mockup of how the data sharing will look in action...
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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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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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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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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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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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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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