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D-Day For Facebook App Developers
Facebook is holding a Developer Garage today at its offices in Palo Alto, and a number of new app policies will be formally announced
Bill Gates casts self as 'impatient optimist'
Describing both the need for improvements in global health and the technologies that could create those gains, Bill Gates on Tuesday characterized himself as an "impatient optimist."...
Twitter costing British economy
The Telegraph has published an article about some survey which claims social networks such as Twitter are costing British businesses at the very least £1.38 billion (approx. $2.25 billion) a year. ...
Judge Dismisses Craigslist Prostitution Lawsuit
Thomas Dart, the Illinois sheriff who took Craigslist to court over erotic advertisements that appeared on the popular classifieds site, is unhappy with this week’s decision of a federal judge to toss the lawsuit (full ruling embedded below)....Full Circle In Sight As Inventor Of The World Wide Web Signs Up For Twitter
Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter in a move that could potentially rip a hole in the time/space continuum....
Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast.
After months of negotiations and holding both off at bay, Twitter now has agreements with both Bing and Google to give them access to its full feed of public Tweets....Review: Apple Magic Mouse
Apple's latest pointer, the Magic Mouse, is included with its new iMac desktops, but you can purchase it separately for $69....
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
Former Current Media executive Robin Sloan appears to have posted Twitter's 5 billionth tweet, in the form of a reply to another user that otherwise read only "Oh lord."...Review: Lenovo SL510 Laptop
Without proceeding any further, I am about to make a guess: you have already decided whether or not you're buying a ThinkPad. The iconic brand, the unending combination of professional respect, solid features, and unabashed blandness, combine to make a product that has surprising appeal across the board, yet remains, literally, a black box. The newest update to the line, the ThinkPad SL510, is part of Lenovo's Windows 7 product launch....Google Europe COO Bails, To Head Operations For Rival
European Directories has announced a big win this morning with the appointment of Ben Legg as Chief Operating Officer. ...
Why Kai-Fu Lee Turned Down Steve Jobs
Kai-Fu Lee may have left his post as president of Google China, but he didn’t go very far. While still president he learned that Google was going to give up some of its space at Beijing’s Tsinghua Science Park. ...Google Experiments With Product Ads In Search Results
Over the last few weeks Google has apparently started rolling out a new set of advertising formats on its search results page, introducing product listings that include price and other details in the Sponsored Links sidebar....
Massive Chinese Operation DormRing1 Uncovered
As long as advertisers pay for clicks, there will be click fraud. And the more people combat it, the more sophisticated the attacks become to get around the defenses that advertisers, search engines, and others put in place. But a recent click fraud ring discovered by click-fraud monitoring service Anchor Intelligence suggests that the practice is evolving to a scale never seen before....Netbooks rise, notebooks fall
Netbooks continue to soar in sales at the expense of the venerable notebook, according to a new report from DisplaySearch....
Anarchy on the Internet
The U.S. gives up control of the Internet's domain-name regulator, and Molly Wood predicts anarchy!...Author info
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