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- Thomas Jefferson, via Mike Masnick/Techdirt

Jun 28

“ It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac arrest before it appeared as a auto completion suggestion on Google’s homepage.

— SEOmoz | A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Web

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Jun 26

“ I have used Bing. We benefit from Microsoft’s continual re-entry into this market. We encourage them to continue this strategy.

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RealTimeCannes: Eric Schmidt on Microsoft’s Bing

Ah, the asymmetry of an ideal.

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Jun 25

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Sad about MJ & FF? Cheer up by watching some Geo I/O talks:

http://bit.ly/11aXr3

32 minutes ago from web googlemapsapi (Google Maps API)

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Twitter / Google Maps API: Sad about MJ & FF? Cheer u …

VERY weird message from Google.

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» Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: E-mail Traffic Data Casts Doubt on Global-Village Theory

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Jun 23

» Need Some 15 and 30 Second Spots? Hire Your User Base.

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» Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab

This is the best article I’ve read in weeks

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“ Twitter is growing even faster than Facebook—doubling its membership in March—and would give Google access to the kind of personal information that fills Facebook News Feeds.

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Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet

Wait, isn’t nearly 100% of Twitter’s data public?

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Jun 22

“ Zuckerberg doesn’t pull any punches, describing Google as “a top-down way” of organizing the Web that results in an impersonal experience that stifles online activity. “You have a bunch of machines and algorithms going out and crawling the Web and bringing information back,” he says. “That only gets stuff that is publicly available to everyone. And it doesn’t give people the control that they need to be really comfortable.” Instead, he says, Internet users will share more data when they are allowed to decide which information they make public and which they keep private. “No one wants to live in a surveillance society,” Zuckerberg adds, “which, if you take that to its extreme, could be where Google is going.

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Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet

This is one of the most ironic thought patterns EVER.

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(via The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien - Triumph Visits Bonnaroo Pt2 (06/19/09) - Video - NBC.com)

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Jun 19

The Shift Index - CNBC.com

CNBC: A li’l slow on the uptake ;-)

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thegongshow:

Geek Porn

(via CNet)

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“ The industry appears to be doing everything it can not to appear vindictive in these cases

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Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica

Check out this article, lots of ridiculousness from both sides. Of course, the net result is: this is what happens when lawyers dictate your business strategy.

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“ the current recession is masking long-term competitive challenges for U.S. businesses. Among the key findings, U.S. companies’ return on assets (ROA) have progressively dropped 75 percent from their 1965 level despite rising labor productivity.

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144 page report, check it out

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Jun 18

“ re: transparency…it’s strategically inevitable; lemons = fail when all are hyperconnected; see “backward induction paradox

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Twitter / Ethan Bauley: @jowyang re: transparency. …

Wanted to drop this one back out there…probably my fav tweet of all time (besides the one where Umair Haque followed up to tell me the above was “awesome” ;-)

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Jun 17

“ My question for Yahoo is WHAT WERE YOU THINKING SELLING THIS NAME? It’s an amazing category name.

— DirectNavigation.com

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