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Just over a year ago, Twitter acquired a small startup, Summize, a search engine for tweets. Once the deal was done, Twitter launched Twitter Search, and the real-time search revolution began.Because of that acquisition, real-time search has exploded. Twitter Search and trending topics have become a staple of the Twitterv (Read More)
: Hard to say who will win. The current state makes Twitter a smaller community, still focused on more early adopters, giving me better search results, but that could change with Twitter growth and also with more powerful Facebook search in the future.
: You're right, winning is too black and white, but there's a clear competition between them. I still think Google should find a way to accommodate real-time results. Sure they're testing it right now.
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Of all the appointments Barack Obama is making to his new cabinet, none has attracted as much attention as that of Hillary Clinton. The way it has been handled says more about the future of his presidency than any other. (Read More)
Submitted by Milieunet
from YouTube:
President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov. (Read More)
: meh, content is good, but he comes across too dictitorialsounds too dictitorial. prez needs nedia training like nobody's biz. communications director needs to fall on his sword if necessary to insist that brother Barack learn to speak extemporaneously...not from the teleprompter. either that, or Rahmbo could do it...easily. to repurpose the prez's closing quote. we need to act...now
: @Jeffrey I disagree. I think these weekly videos should verge on the boring. No panic, but confident. Compare the content of what he's saying with how he says it. I think the balance is close to just right.
Pharyngula
A little bit of weekend fun – I spotted this on Shel Holtz’s blog today. Suddenly I feel like I’m in the middle of Minority Report:
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Screw Second Life; I want this.
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: Back in 1998 when I was mkting vp of Activeworlds, precursor to Second Life, I met with all of the major film studios, who told me to come back when AW looked and felt like the Holodeck...seems we may be getting there with sufficient compute power, but bandwidth will indeed be the holdup. Unless everyone get's ftth (fibre-2-the-home), it won't work. Wireless won't cut it...not wimax, not LTE...no friggin way; not unless the FCC frees up 100's of additional Mhz...and even then...may not be sufficient.
Submitted by Jeffrey Schwartz:
Limit on review of war crimes issuesFriday, June 20th, 2008 1:39 pm | Lyle Denniston | Comments Off | Print This PostEmail this • Share on Facebook • Digg This!The D.C. Circuit Court, giving the Pentagon a significant victory as it prepares war crimes trials, ruled on Friday that the Court has no authority to hear challenge (Read More)
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Submitted by Jeffrey Schwartz:
New technology from a company called Sandbridge Technologies could help keep smartphone prices in check as carriers begin to move toward 4G wireless networks.On Monday, Sandbridge, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., plans to announce that its new baseband processor for cell phones, called the SB3500, is now shipping to cell phone ma (Read More)
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A government report released Thursday paints an alarming picture of an unstable future for international relations defined by waning American influence, a fragmentation of political power and intensifying struggles for increasingly scarce natural resources.
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: In other news, bears crap in the woods, the Pope's Catholic, the Cubs never win the World Series, and these guys finally, FINALLY, read a Thomas Friedman book.
: No, it implies that they are a bully, as in someone who leverages a favorable imbalance in power dynamics to pursue their agendas unimpeded. This is an historical fact: America has used its economic and military power to push other nations around, and has in fact glorified in it. And I would not say that anyone is a "force for good". This isn't a comic book. The whole notion of nations being a "force" for anything other than maintaining their own nationhood is part of where the bullying starts.
Mashable!
[Editor’s warning: many of the links in this story lead back to the original sources of the drama, and viewing them might be disturbing for some readers. Please be advised.]In a tragic story from NewTeeVee, we learn that a 19-year-old user of the online live-streaming video service Justin.TV has apparently commit suicide in (Read More)
: I can see how this could easily happen, just look at the state some forums can get into with disturbed people, you only need the right (wrong) combination of people to make such an event happen, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
Us nice folks of the Internet only see the nice stuff we choose to search for on-line, search engines like google are pretty good at making sure you won't see really sick stuff unless you type in a combination of words that mean something else in 'sicko ville' by accident.
- I expect there are websites that specialize in this subject in explicit detail - just like they do in every other warped feat of the human imagination that the net can accommodate. It's all out there - it's an extreme form of cyber bulling, what happened to this person.
I got a very mild taste of this kind of thing on blogtv where a person continued to say nasty things to me as a newbie, it's kind of fascinating to have somebody bully this way - took me back to the playground, and bad work experiences - left me drained - it was an experiment but I deleted most of the videos and just kept one - to remind myself why not to do live shows with morons again.