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Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on July 03, 2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom — Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services.
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Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. ... (Calley Nye/TechCrunch)
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Calley Nye / TechCrunch:Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success. — Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses.
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Why I'm leaving Forrester (Charlene Li/Groundswell)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Charlene Li / Groundswell:Why I'm leaving Forrester — I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received — and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into a routine.
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Nicely said: Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl (Google Mobile Blog)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Google Mobile Blog:Nicely said: Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl — Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search team — On the Google Maps for mobile team we're always experimenting with new technologies, so we're happy to announce that we've started testing voice search as a new feature.
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Is Email In Danger? - Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. (Alex Iskold/ReadWriteWeb)
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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:Is Email In Danger? — Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things. It became cheap to send mail, and delivery was instant.
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Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web (Lee Gomes/Wall Street Journal)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web — Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms. — A book from 2006, “The Long Tail,” was one of those that appear periodically …
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Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth — The LiveSide Blog reported that Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist posted the news that Ask.com has now dropped their own mapping product for Microsoft's Virtual Earth. — Virtual Earth can now be found on Ask Maps …
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Google learns to crawl Flash (The Official Google Blog)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on July 01, 2008
The Official Google Blog:Google learns to crawl Flash — Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.
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Engadget's Ryan Block and Peter Rojas To Team On New Startup (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Engadget's Ryan Block and Peter Rojas To Team On New Startup — Engadget's editor-in-chief Ryan Block will be leaving parent company AOL shortly, sources say, to launch a new startup. Partnering with him on the new company will be Peter Rojas, Engadget's former editor-in-chief (pictured left below, next to Block).
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Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant (Todd Bishop/Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on June 25, 2008
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant — Sometimes, software isn't so magical. Even for Bill Gates. — For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
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