Oct 29, 2009

Robert Scoble - FriendFeed I used to be the biggest user of Google Reader. At one point the Google Reader team told me I shared more items than anyone else. But lately it's a rare month I've checked into it and Twitter is in the process of adding a new feature -- lists -- that is getting me off of Google Reader altogether.Why?Several reasons:1. Goog (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

World Internet TV PC Blog Free TV and Video Websites such as Hulu, Youtube etc. are gaining popularity daily, at the expense of peer-to-peer (P2P) software who’s useage is slowing. So says a report by network-management systems vendor Sandvine.Legally Free websites account for around 27% of the webs worldwide traffic, which is up from 13% in 2008. O (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Ars Technica P2P use is down this year, possibly thanks to the growing availability of online video. Network equipment provider Sandvine observed these two trends in its "2009 Global Broadband Phenomena" report (via Broadband Reports), noting that there was a "dramatic increase" in realtime (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge London - The U.K. government plans to introduce a billmimicking France'srecently enacted "three-strikes" legislation on file-sharing, whichauthorizes the suspension of the Internet accounts of those warned repeatedlythey are violating copyrights, according to published reports. The bill will"make technical measures availabl (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

SF Gate (10-30) 05:22 PDT Montgomery, Ala. (AP) -- A legislative oversight committee went to court Thursday to stop a $13 million no-bid computer contract between Gov. Bob Riley's administration and a company with no listed business phone number and no Web... Sponsored Topics: Alabama - Bob Riley - United States - Montgomery (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Toputop from blog: Google Wave is an online message tool for real-time communication and teamwork. A wave can be both a discussion and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps. Wave builds on the concept of cloud computing. Google wave is going to become a wave of the future. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Download Squad Filed under: Internet, Video, News, Windows, Macintosh, P2P, Social Software, Web Libox got my attention with free and unlimited - as in unlimited - media sharing. It's a new beta desktop application that allows you to share all your photos, videos and music with your friends and contacts. Unlike other social media sharing (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Search Engine Land Two rockstars have emerged in the web analytics field to date. We all know who they are: Eric Peterson has demystified analytics for us, while Avinash Kaushik has helped us take it one day, or dare I say, “an hour a day,” at a time. And one of them says web analytics is easy [...] .... . (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Search Engine Land For years, Google’s discovery of web pages was solely based on links. If a page had no links to it, Googlebot had no way of knowing about it and therefore, would never index it. Along the way, Google provided an option for submitting individual pages, but that wasn’t really a viable option for site owners [...] .... . (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Conversation Agent The Internet has changed the scale at which we can observe and participate in activities that express or pay off our own human nature - that of being social. As technologies get cheaper and more ubiquitous, more people can join in, independently of social status, geography, age, etc. Before the Internet, businesses were t (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Mashable! Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password. That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host o (Read More)

Dec 02, 2008

Mashable! Twitter competitor Pownce is no more. We’ve followed the story yesterday: it was acquired by Six Apart, but not to develop the service further: simply to acquire the talented people that worked on Pownce. I’d like to quickly revisit the story because I’ve been following Pownce from day one, I’ve actu (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: RepostTim O’Reilly is well-known not only for his successful publishing company (which I have written for), but also for his definition of the term, “Web 2.0″, in summary defining the web as a platform, moving from the desktop to the cloud. I’d like to propose we are in the process of taking that one step further, perhaps e (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Pak Alert Press By Bob UnruhWorldNetDaily Exclusive10-10-9A trends forecaster says the current economic “rebound” from last winter’s Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by ‘phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing.”And Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch. (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Mashable! Twitter spammers have been put on notice. Starting today, each profile on Twitter now includes a “report [username] for spam” link. When clicked, the feature alerts you that it will immediately block the user and report them to Twitter for review.To-date, Twitter has been using the @spam account to allow users to quickly (Read More)

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