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[originally posted on Get Real, January 19, 2005]
[These are the prepared notes for my introductory remarks for
yesterday's Get Real Show, largely derived form a report I wrote for
Cutter a few years ago, called Time to Get Real: Growing the Real Time Enterprise (still seems fresh though).] To imagine a zero [...]
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Time to Get Real: Moving Toward the Real-Time Enterprise There is no shortage of reading material on the rise of the real-time enterprise. But it's time to look beyond the verbiage so that organizations can decide what they must do to become "real time." This Executive Report by [...]
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You know the five or six really successful Facebook app and game makers?
Zynga, Slide, RockYou, Playdom, Playfish and all of their competitors?
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George Stephanopoulos is the frontrunner to replace Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America," but some staffers on the show doubt whether he could handle an interview with the likes of Chaz Bono, TVNewser hears.
Bono --formerly Chastity, daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono -- appeared on [...]
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A Vietnamese blog posted this picture of a package of 'Google' brand "bathroom paper." According to EnGadget's attempt to translate the text printed on the wrapper using Google Translate, the product's description reads, Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always! Let u...
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Our series of posts about external uses of Times APIs continues. Today we're highlighting Infractor, a tangible user interface for the Times Article Search API. [...]
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We asked one of Google New York's top engineers, Craig Neville-Manning, who are the offices' rock star engineers.
The short version of the answer is: "We try not to be too much of a rockstar culture. I would kind of like everyone to be a rockstar."
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Number of comments: 6 Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model.
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Twitter COO Dick Costolo says ads are coming soon.
At a TechCrunch event, Dick told Michael Arrington, they will be "fascinating, non-traditional, and people will love it."
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One of the iPhone apps we're craving the most is still missing in action: An app from Hulu, the Web video company owned by NBC, Fox, and Disney. It's one of the things that readers ask us about the most, so we thought we'd revisit [...]
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I have persuaded Jim Fishkin to put the introductory chapter of his important new book, “When The People Speak: Deliberative Democracy & Public Consultation” online. For those who think that the idea of improving the publish sphere by putting together citizens with varying political views in the presence of [...]
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Remember when Sarah Palin complained about the AP's handling of her book, wondering how they were able to report on it before it had even hit shelves?
Here's how.
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The explosive growth of the Facebook games business has left a small number of companies with a lot of cash.
Zynga has raised $54 million. Playdom has raised $43 million and Playfish now has the resources of a billion dollar public company, Electronic Arts (ERTS).
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Hey, Beth Noveck is working at the White House getting really serious about giving all Americans a serious voice in running our Federal government. She talks about how this is happening at city and state levels in Open Government Laboratories of Democracy: Inspired by the President?s call for more open government, [...]
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Number of comments: 1 I guess Jim Barnett must trust rich people a lot more than I do.
Don?t get me wrong: some of my best friends, yada-yada, and I certainly wouldn?t mind if my sister married one. (If I had a sister). But why on earth does he think putting media decisions in the [...]
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The media mogul teared up Friday morning as officially announced that she was ending her syndicated talk show in 2011.
Winfrey is leaving Chicago to apparently focus on her cable channel OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
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 Mobile workers of the world can finally unite, as the neat augmented reality application Worksnug has just been approved by Apple for the iPhone. And you know what? Two days after its approval it is already a hit. Not only has Stephen Fry twittered about it, [...]
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Yahoo is re-branding its Right Media ad exchange as a place for premium advertising only.
What that means is that it's booting a whole lot of what it calls "tier two" and "tier three" ad networks from the exchange.
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I had breakfast earlier this week with Bug Labs CEO Peter Semmelhack, a friend who is passionate about empowering others to invent. He noted that his recent European travels underscored how apprenticeships remain a bigger part of life there versus the U.S. More important, that contrast highlighted how apprenticeships are [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:16am EST
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Google (GOOG) should deliver a great fourth quarter, as keyword pricing and cost per click are both up, according to analysis from Brian Pitz at UBS, published in a note this week.
Pitz says CPCs are up 26% in October compared to September. UBS's data is backed up by Efficient Frontier, [...]
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 The Hartford Courant, Connecticut's largest daily, is being sued for plagiarism by local competitor The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, reports the Associated Press. The suit was filed this week in Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford. It accuses the Courant of lifting 11 articles, both in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:11am EST
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What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
"Fortunately, a location-aware Twitter experience is something that will enable developers to deliver value to individual users immediately and in isolation - it doesn't have to be one of those situations where "this will be cool once other people I know are [...]
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Update 3: Now we're getting there. We just had a nice chat with a Googler about how Microsoft has a NIH mentality (Not Invented Here), while Google is still doing things like Google Wave.
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 Google famously terrorizes their interviewees with questions like, “how much would it cost to pay someone to wash all the windows in Seattle,” “how many cabs are in New York City,” and “What would you do if you were shrunk to the size of a nickel, [...]
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For weeks, I’ve been hearing Apple fanboys pan Verizon’s Motorola Droid ads as too geeky and unappealing for the mass market. I’ve been hearing fanboys claim that nongeeks can’t understand “open development”, that they’d be scared off by images of stealth bombers. Then I read an essay by Paul [...]
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Credit where credit's due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle earlier in the year. How so?
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Here's a weird detail about AOL's layoffs: Employees have to apply to be fired -- and its not guaranteed their bosses will say yes.
Yesterday, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told workers the company needs 2,500 employees to quit the company before it spins off in December. He said [...]
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Looking for a change of scenery? There are several new opportunities posted on the Silicon Alley Insider job board. Recent listings include positions at The Huffington Post, AdBuyer.com, TechWeb, and more:
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Harbinger Capital, the hedge fund that once seemed poised to shake up the New York Times, has again reduced its stake in the company.
According to SEC filings, Harbinger only owns 14.64% of the Times Company now, down from 16% at the end of [...]
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Google’s recent demo of Chrome OS answered several important questions about how a browser-only OS would operate. One of those questions is how it would handle removable storage. As you can see when the demo unit is attached to a digital camera, using a Web browser as a file browser [...]
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 BBC News website to feature longer headlines on story pages, making them easier to find on search engines From today, the headlines of the BBC News website will become longer to make its stories easier to find on search engines. "We estimate that about 29% of BBC News [...]
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Kenji Hall / Business Week: Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple's iTunes — The tech giant will launch an online store selling music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products — Sony (SNE) is taking a page from Apple's playbook (AAPL)....
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Number of comments: 2  Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below.
Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited local bloggers, and [...]
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 'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen Fry Stephen Fry, technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him [...]
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Stocks have jumped 65% from the March lows. They have also blasted past fair value, which is about 900 on the S&P 500 on a cyclically-adjusted price-earnings ratio (see professor Robert Shiller's chart below). So, unless it's different this time, they're now more than 20% overvalued.
(Jeremy Grantham puts fair value [...]
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 AOL plans to let 2,500 employees go in attempt to reduce costs $300 million annually  We said last week that the cuts at the new AOL could go far deeper than the anticipated 1,000. At the time, execs declined comment but today the [...]
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So how's Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a [...]
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 Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said that he would "love to see what happens" if Rupert Murdoch goes ahead with his plans to block News International titles from Google's search index and implement his proposed paywall. Speaking at an event organised by the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:42am EST
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 The New York Times is launching its new Chicago edition today, reports Editor & Publisher. The new edition, which will be included each week in the Friday and Sunday New York Times, will be composed of two additional pages of local news, policy, sports, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:40am EST
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Number of comments: 2  What if a newspaper was designed using principles of web user experience design*? That’s the question that design agency Information Architects asked themselves when they put together a pitch for Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. They lost the pitch, but the blog post about their ideas is fascinating [...]
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Like in the music or art fields, we, the Spanish-speaking people, allways look to the Anglo-American world to see what the new trends and innovation about digital journalism are (and laugh when Rupert Murdoch opens his mouth).
But now we can show our own [...]
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It was a little thing but a much debated thing nonetheless for quite a little spell. Twitter asked its teeming tweeting millions "What are you doing?" though for a great long time that questions was somewhat and then completely irrelevant. From breaking news coverage on the ground to summing up [...]
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The Wall Street Journal has the wealthiest readership among print readers according to a new survey from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, by way of BtoB Online.  [...]
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This week's podcast is from my weekly slot on Radio Australia Today with Phil Kafcaloudes and Adelaine Ng:
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 Great animation dominates this week's web videos ? including what happens when pigeons get the bomb Get ready for amazing animations this week on the viral video chart. In fact, with Spacious Thought, Pigeon:Impossible and Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No, there are three real beauties in our [...]
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By Robert Niles: I've attended many journalism conferences over the years, but our industry offers nothing like the event I attended this week. As many of you might know, my primary job these days is running a theme park news website that I founded nearly a decade ago. So this [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:24am EST
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Before you get drown into the waves of news items explaining what Google Chrome is and what it is not, let’s not forget one of its most important feature which might make it click among Internet security geeks, like us.
The Official Google Blog explains why Chrome OS is [...]
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 It's official: Oprah Winfrey is leaving Chicago.
She says she will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she starts her own cable network.
Will she move her show to the new network? Expect something like it.
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 How to use Lists to monitor your personal & professional brands
 There?s been a lot of talk about Twitter Lists. How do you use them? How can they be improved? What is Twitter hoping to do with them ? down the road? Not [...]
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Google's billionaire cofounder Sergey Brin showed up at the Google Chrome OS event today in Mountain View for a surprise Q&A. And as CrunchGear points out, he was wearing very strange looking shoes.
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eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has closed its deal to sell VoIP service Skype for roughly $2.75 billion. The group of buyers—including Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and others—are paying $1.9 billion in cash up fro...
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The queen of all New York real estate agents, Barbara Corcoran, is "all in" on the AOL spin-off, according to her Twitter account.
She wrote: "Had a meeting at AOL. They have the most beautiful headquarters I've ever seen! People working have to do well there! I'm buying stock."
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While the AP has reached its goal of cutting 10% from the payroll -- leaving fearful staffers room to breathe -- this does not diminish the overall effects of the layoffs on company well being.
"Morale -- which was low before -- is completely [...]
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On today’s On Point, Michael Wolff, Steve Brill, and I talked about Murdoch and Google and the show’s blog quoted me thusly:
But News Corp isn?t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this ? and I?m an admirer of [...]
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Hey Googlers, New Yorkers, and Google's New Yorkers!
Don't forget that tomorrow, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. we'll be running SAI from the same building that houses Google New York.
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Tweet: A tweet paraphrased my link-economy line and showed me I’ve been saying more than I thought I have. **
In Twitter today, one @rpaskin paraphrased something I’ve been saying – and said again in my talk at Web 2.0 Expo Tuesday (generously covered in that link by Aneta [...]
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There's a new series of demands being made in company meetings everywhere: "What is our social media strategy? What are we doing on Facebook and Twitter? I want followers and fans, and I want them now!"
But before companies large and small -- as well as non-profits and charities [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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Number of comments: 2 
From Biz' post on Twitter's shift:
Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore?starting today, we've shortened [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:34pm EST
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The Wall Street Journal has the wealthiest readership among print readers according to a new survey from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, by way of BtoB Online.
This is why Rupert Murdoch is [...]
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 Here are 2 very interesting videos from a recent talk by Karl Schneider, Head of editorial development at B2B publisher Reed Business Information, at UCA Farnham. In the first Schneider takes a look at how the typical journalist’s day has changed – I particularly like the concept [...]
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(This guest post originally appeared at the author's blog)
Merrill Lynch downgraded several semiconductor names this morning citing unfavorable cyclical trends and a normalization in inventory restocking. The semis are tanking 3.5% on the report and many investors fear the inventory restocking that has powered much of the fundamental strength [...]
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It was a huge day in AOL news, and we covered every bit of it. Catch up here:
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Take a deep breath, AP staffers. The news organization -- which rolled out mass layoffs this week -- has announced the carnage is over.
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Donna Barrett, Peter Horvitz and Steven Swartz also cited for contributions
The American Press Institute has awarded its Lifetime Service Award to Mark Contreras, senior vice president/newspapers for The E.W. Scripps Co. The award, presented at the API board of directors meeting Nov. 9, is given [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:17pm EST
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Number of comments: 1  Following recent coverage of the PCC’s Baroness Buscombe’s Independent interview where she possibly mooted the idea of the PCC regulating blogs, I thought I would share some correspondence I had with the PCC recently over the same issue. In a nutshell: blogs can already [...]
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 Thank you to everyone who attended TBI's Startup the Holidays party last night!
We'd also like to thank our sponsor, Regus NYC for making the event possible and giving us a place to party -- one of their 18 fully-furnished, rentable office locations in Manhattan.
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The ILM:09 conference Dec. 9-11 in LA is now just around the corner. We?ve handpicked 60 cutting-edge speakers, and we think we are onto something that is really important. I can tell you that signups have been great, too.
Recent adds to the speaker roster include [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:11pm EST by Peter
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Google's operating system race with Microsoft and Apple is on. Today, the company showed off an update of Chrome OS at its headquarters.
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Dell just posted terrible Q3 results, and the stock is down 8% in after-hours trading.
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There was quite a stir a few months ago when an internal presentation about how Netflix manages its internal culture was leaked across the Web. Among Netflix's more unusual policies was that it does not limit the number of vacation days that its salaried employees can take. My company has [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:00pm EST
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API announces new officers and directors
Thomas A. Silvestri was elected chairman of the American Press Institute at the organization's board of directors meeting, held here Nov. 9-10. The gavel was passed to Silvestri from outgoing Chairman Mark Contreras, senior vice president/newspapers for The E.W. Scripps [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:00pm EST
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Martha Stewart tells ABC's "Nightline" that her past jail sentence might have cost her namesake company more than $1 billion.
"I was pissed. OK. Pissed that something could actually affect that. The company had nothing to do with anything. But yet, because I am the face and [...]
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Google Chrome OS is designed to run nothing but Web apps, so a lot of OS UI concepts will have to be remapped. Your applications become browser tabs, your browser windows become multiple desktops, and your widgets become overlay panels.
Yes, it feels a little weird. With cloud computing services getting [...]
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A MacArthur Foundation article titled Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens describes a meeting where 23 leading museum people commiserated about the rejection of museums by the youth:
Even though this group was hardly the ostriches, they all grappled with the constraints of the current system?from physical structures to [...]
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Google showed off an update of its forthcoming Chrome OS operating system at its headquarters in Silicon Valley today.
The whole point of the operating system -- meant for simple computers and launching in about a year -- is that it's based on a Web browser, so don't get too excited. [...]
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Next week, AOL employees will hold one-on-one meetings with their bosses to decide if they should stay with the company or not.
Earlier today, AOL told its employees that it wants 2,500 of them to step forward and quit the company. In an email, AOL said if [...]
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Google gets extreme in its push to get users to the cloud with Google Chrome OS. It’s essentially a browser running on a very slim Linux build — so slim, in fact, that you can’t run any native apps on it. Instead, Google is counting on the HTML 5’s enhanced [...]
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Last night I attended one of my favorite events, the Ad Council's Public Service Award Dinner, this year honoring Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company. It's a night of black ties and cummerbunds and floor-length gowns draped with furs (faux, I'm sure)(not really) of varying lengths, and a [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:30pm EST
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Fox News says it mistakenly aired the wrong crowd footage during a segment about Sarah Palin's book tour.
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Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy.
The suit was probably inevitable. As we first reported, the Sacramento-based [...]
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The king of financial bloggers, Felix Salmon, is annoyed by me.
Specifically, if I read him correctly, Felix is annoyed that:
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Video captions are useful not only for the hearing impaired and the deaf but also for video owners as well as it improves search findability of videos and machine translation. The thing is adding caption to videos before uploading them can be a pretty dauting task. The YouTube folks know [...]
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Bloomberg is letting BusinessWeek writers go today. So far, the names we've seen via Twitter are pretty big.
- Steve Baker, a technology writer, and veteran of 23 years. We've heard he wanted to leave anyway.
- Jon Fine, the great media writer -- on sabbatical with his wife, Laurel [...]
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One AOL insider's take is that today's voluntary layoff offers are all about pushing out the overpaid old-timers who have gone untouched for years thanks to their loyalty to AOL.
It's also a way of weeding out those who don't believe in that new strategy.
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