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Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
via Official Google Blog by Karen on February 03, 2008
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal OfficerThe openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.So Microsoft's hostile bid for...
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What you all are missing about Google
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 04, 2008
I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo.Here’s what’s really going on:1. Google doesn’t mind this deal going through at all. Google knows they will be able to outrun a “Microhoo.” Why do they know that? Because they’ve been...
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Microsoft researchers make me cry
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 14, 2008
It’s not often that I see software that really changes my world. It’s even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977. When Richard Cameron showed me Apple’s Hypercard. Microsoft’s Excel. Aldus’ Pagemaker. And something called Photoshop, all in his West Valley Community...
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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Top 10 Last.fm Mashups
via RSSmeme | Most Popular Stories From The Last 24 Hours by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
Shared nine times TaggedProducts (106)Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. But the now CBS-owned service doesn't get nearly enough credit for its API. We've heard stories about how 90% of Twitter's use comes from its API. Well, Last.fm also has an...
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Scribd Launches New Platform and iPaper, a New Format for Web Docs
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 19, 2008
Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper. This web-based viewer lets you view documents in a browser using a Flash-based widget, with no need for software downloads. Also launched today is the Scribd platform, a set of tools that lets anyone use iPaper on their own internal web site.iPaperiPaper has been...
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 14, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on January 31, 2008
We have written a lot here about the the vision of building a structured layer ontop of the current web. Annotating billions of HTML documents in a bottom-up way or building top-down tools that can automagicallyinterpret the existing information are the two approaches that we discussed. Together these approaches would result in a globaldatabase which will make the web even more connected.The...
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Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on February 13, 2008
Yahoo's Ryan Kuder was canned today. A drag for him, but gift for the rest of us, because he Twittered it. A new form of electronic literature is in the making. Ryan's one the early stars. Y! layoffs today, I'm "impacted". I'm heading into work to pack mydesk, get my severance paperwork and hand in my badge...more to come. about 10 hours ago On the plus side, my commute just...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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