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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:18:54 -0800

Using FriendFeed to Keep Mom Informed and Happy
It goes without saying that many of us spend a considerable amount of our day on the web. We send toots, write blog posts, upload images to Flickr, all that stuff. For our peers, consuming this content is relatively easy because most of them are either...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:18:18 -0800

Does Silicon Valley's Spending Spree Signal a Recovery?
Big technology companies are spending $1.5 billion to buy three high-profile start-ups, after a long drought in acquisitions and initial public offerings.
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:16:47 -0800

What Social Search Means To Your Business
Image via CrunchBase Bing and Google recently announced partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to provide elements of real-time and social search to their respective search engine results. On the surface, this probably blew past most business...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:35:38 -0800

Feed(ly)ing The Enterprise
Jennifer Zaino SemanticWeb.com Contributor Feedly, the Firefox plug-in that consumers have enjoyed for organizing their favorite sites into magazine-like start pages—presenting input from Google Reader, Twitter streams, and other services they...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:35:27 -0800

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Google Offers A 16 Terabyte Cloud Drive For $4,096 A Year

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:32:03 -0800

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Twitter RT's - if an app does not support the new RT functionality do RT's still appear as individual tweets in your timeline?

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:14:14 -0800

Did Twitter Pluck a Data Management Guru from Yahoo!?
That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what look to have been its rockiest...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:49 -0800

Google Latitude Rolls Out Location History and Alerts
Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It’s Google’s Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts. Location History tracks where you have been at any point in time, while Location Alerts notifies you...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:42 -0800

killer tweetage
Ev's post outlining the rationale for the implementation of RTs in Twitter is full of interesting bits*, but this is the sentence that stuck out in the post. Emphasis his: This last point [re. unstructured data] is not obvious but is...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:29:23 -0800

@lizasperling I am glad you like the @lgshareditems feed. It's a real-time, curated stream of the best of the tech Web. (No lists required)
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:28:12 -0800

Nothing (93 Returning Remix) - Tiësto
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:59:18 -0800

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Jeremy Grantham: Sucker's Rally Almost Over

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:57:48 -0800

PR Response Via Adwords?
I vaguely recall a similar story a couple years ago, though now I can't find it, but the Nieman Journalism Lab has an article about how PR folks are starting to use targeted Google AdWords buys to respond to negative press coverage. It doesn't seem...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:51:54 -0800

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GoogleWave Invites - I HAZ THEM. A motherload. Leave email address here. Thankyou.

- Hi Mona!

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:10:33 -0800

Message posted by Holly Rae, FFer

If I were just given a challenging quest, I would go to FriendFeed instead of Twitter because...

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:15 -0800

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Audrey will be sending out holiday postcards this December. If you would like one, either DM me your name and address or email postcard@roadofmiracles.com.

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:28:16 -0800

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Google hopes to remake programming with Go

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:09:50 -0800

Why Retweet works the way it does
This week on Twitter, we're rolling a feature we've been working on for a while out to a lot more users. (If you don't have it yet, you will soon.) That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted about on the Twitter blog a couple...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:08:51 -0800

not another twitter conference - Why We Do IT
We continue our journey through the tools of connection. For me, IT provides the rails for voice to be carried around the world- instantly. I jumped into Twitter early and introduced the service to a wide array of friends. We see the mainstream media...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:08:27 -0800

Twice the storage for a quarter of the price
(Cross-posted from the Google Photos Blog)People today have more personal data online than ever before. More and more people are starting to move the bulk of their data off the desktop and into servers "in the cloud," where it's accessible from any...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:51 -0800

Introducing Bing Video
Microsoft is consolidating its video search offerings under the Bing Videos label, allowing users to retrieve video content from MSN, Hulu, ABC, DailyMotion, YouTube and more than 300 other content partners. In a blog post about the change, the company...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:12 -0800

Yahoo Pitches Itself To Investors
At the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit today, analysts wanted to know why Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was a good bet. The company’s repeated response: Data. Yahoo senior director David Kopp and VP Dev...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:53:12 -0800

Go: A New Programming Language
Have you heard about Go? We released a new, experimental systems programming language today. It is open source and we're excited about sharing it with the development community. For more information, check out the Google Open Source blog.By Robert...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:01:59 -0800

Analysis On Murdoch And Switching Off GOOG: The Dirty Little Secret About Search Engine Traffic...
Every time Rupert Murdoch complains about Google and says he will cut off access, a mass of Twitterati, Digerati, and Diggerati think the old newspaper tycoon has lost his marbles and doesn't "get it."Surely, they chorus, all that traffic that Google...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:46:59 -0800

Umm, No. Netflix Isn’t Dumb When It Comes to Release Windows
Sorry, TechCrunch, but Netflix isn’t the bunch of ninnies that you’re making it out to be. At issue is the possible 30-day delay on new release movies Netflix is willing to accept from Hollywood studios in exchange for lower acquisition costs....
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