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Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search by AP: Yahoo! TechYahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics. Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had ...
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AmEx pays $300 million for Steve Case's Revolution -- DailyFinanceRemember Steve Case? He's the guy that used to send you diskettes in the mail to get you to sign up for America Online so you could dial-up to the Internet. Then, in January 2000, he sold AOL to Time Warner (TWX) -- ultimate parent of DailyFinance -- in a $166 billion deal. On Dec. 9, Case's ...
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Decade's top 10 Internet moments - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.comHere is the Webby's list of the 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade: * Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere * Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash | Developer World - InfoWorldJavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of ...
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13 cities get paperless postal service | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkUSPS can't like this ... though they did try their own version of electronic mail some time ago and failed miserably. Will it work this time?JDP added 7 weeks ago
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1German teacher loses battle against pupils' web rankingsConsidering some suppression of student (especially high school) views (posters, etc. - even "off school grounds"!) in the US and other "western democracies", maybe those governments have something to learn from Germany!JDP added 4 months ago
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1Fight Over Internet Filtering Has Test Run in Europe - NYTimes.comLobbying in Europe to influence possible US laws!? If EU lobbyists made such a big splash in the US, there would probably be howls of "unwelcome foreign influence".JDP added 8 months ago
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1A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do: Scientific AmericanThis probably has implications for many aspects of information exchange - from teaching to web page design. That is for instance, differences in all instructions / critical need to know points being clearly and simply explained in one place / "narrative" verses information being "prettified" ...JDP added 9 months ago
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Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVPCongratulations to Twitter on an awesome round of funding!Nova Spivack added 9 months ago
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