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Facebook built my Feedreader

July 29, 2009

I have always asserted that Facebook’s most valuable asset was its event stream (which you can see by clicking ‘home’ from within Facebook). It shows you what’s happening in your network. The other day I complained about having to block more than 100 apps within Facebook to keep their spam out of my daily flow.  [...]

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The Open Debate on Chinese Internet Proliferation

July 22, 2009

Statistics lauding the growth of the Internet in China have become so commonplace as to inspire yawns, despite breathless press reports of hundreds of millions of Chinese going online and signing up for the ‘net.  With the Chinese Government declaring that their internet population surpassed the US last year, it would seem that the real [...]

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Google is a Kludge – Or Why Search is Going to Change

June 20, 2008

Despite the fact that I often find myself on the opposing end of the table on most of what Microsoft does, I was really hoping to be able to agree with Ballmer on his assertions regarding Microsoft’s rejuvenated focus on search as quoted in today’s Financial Times article. I was hoping that, on the heels [...]

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Search Goes Open-Source

May 1, 2007

If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these days is essential to the success of the [...]

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Verisign’s Domain Redirects

September 23, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Kay > Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:20:55 AM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Verisign’s Domain Redirects > > Seems like DNS is in trouble yet again. This is a pretty interesting > issue. > One could argue that managing a root gTLD server is a public trust [...]

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Verisign’s At It Again..

September 17, 2003

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19860-2003Sep16.html washingtonpost.com Software Aimed at Blocking VeriSign’s Search Program By Anick Jesdanun AP Internet Writer Tuesday, September 16, 2003; 4:00 PM NEW YORK — The developer of software that essentially guides Web surfers sought Tuesday to neutralize a controversial service designed to help users who mistype Internet addresses. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization [...]

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Yahoo Buys Overture…

July 14, 2003

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=1&u=/ap/ 20030714/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_overture 2 hours, 37 minutes ago Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo! Inc (NasdaqNM: YHOO -news ). on Monday snapped up Overture Services Inc. (NasdaqNM: OVER -news ), the pioneer of pay-for-placement online search results, in a $1.6 billion deal that fortifies the [...]

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Anthony Cox’s Google Bomb..

July 10, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,994676,00.html The war on the web Anthony Cox describes how his spoof error page turned into a ‘Google bomb’ for weapons of mass destruction Thursday July 10, 2003 The Guardian I had always wondered how those viral emails or amusing web page addresses forwarded to me built up such momentum. Little did I know that [...]

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Bloggers ARE the Internet…

June 25, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,974523,00.html Blogging’s too good for them Paul Carr Monday June 9, 2003 The Guardian Walking through the streets of Blogistan this week, I couldn’t help noticing a certain tension in the air. The natives were restless. The saloon bars were abuzz with nervous chatter. And it wasn’t about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Something was most [...]

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2002: The Year In Technology

December 27, 2002

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215 * 2002: The year in technology* 09:00 25 December 02 Will Knight The entertainment industry upped its attack on the internet file-sharing in 2002 by introducing new and controversial “copy protection” technologies to prevent computer copying of music and movies. The year began on a sour note when the company behind the Compact Disc [...]

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