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Archive for October, 2007

Google launches anti-piracy tool

 Good news for content producers this week: Google has finally released a beta of its YouTube piracy tool.However, the new tool puts the ball firmly in the court of the makers: they’ll need to upload the videos that they want protected. Google will then run a whizz-bang program that goes hunting for identical material on [...]

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Google to launch Facebook rival

 So the search giant is going to unveil its Facebook rival on November 5 (no source here… just a hail of blogosphere noise).I’m wondering what tricks Google has up its sleeve to bring down the social giant. In case they’re still wondering, and happen to be reading this, here are a few ideas:

Bring every social [...]

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Has Facebook peaked?

According to Om Malik, the latest comScore figures from the US seem to suggest that the world’s most hyped network is losing audience. So has FB caught the Icarus virus? Not according to Marketing Pilgrim, who say that the exact same dip happened last year – and Facebook duly recovered.

Facebook Traffic Tanks – This can’t [...]

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How to be the best manager in the world

Simply delightful parody at Slacker Manager, listing the Seven Habits Of Highly Ineffective Managers. I checked through the list feeling smug (I am, of course, flawless), until I got to this one…
Give someone on your team a project. Don’t tell them how important it is. Keep throwing more little balls at them until they drop [...]

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Too high a price to pay for free wireless?

Yes, yes, yes… er, no. Still, at least it was a brief thrill.I spend a few seconds in a state of euphoria, delighted at the thought of free wi-fi in virtually every High Street in the UK. Imagine: my new iPod touch instantly comes a step closer to emulating the iPhone – on tap connection [...]

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Dilbert creator predicts the end of news print

…And it all rests on the evolution of the iPhone, apparently.
I predict that the end of printed newspapers will happen in the time it takes for most people to upgrade their cell phones two more times. The iPhone, and its inevitable copycats, (let’s call them iClones) are newspaper killers.

When you have a web browser [...]

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The definition of Web 3.0

So here it is… the defining statement that says goodbye to Web 2.0, and hello to a new generation. Or not. Either, Jason Calacanis (all-round web entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Weblogs Inc.), has had a stab at giving a dictionary definition of Web 3.0:
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and [...]

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A complete history of the first time things happened

Oh, now I’m a happy boy. This is the sort of stuff you could lose years of your life to… The First Time News Was Fit To Print is a compilation of the first mentions in the New York Times of famous people, places, things and terms.Sound dull? You need to get out more…mental_floss magazine [...]

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Wonderful dig at Digg

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Blogs become ‘media properties’

A new chart shows the power of blog-powered technology sites against traditional online media, with several home-spun players now giving the BBC and CNet a run for their dollar.If you’re a habitual consumer of technology sites, none of the findings will come as a shock. To my eyes, the real interest comes in the comment [...]

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