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Brettarenz's Clips
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ReadWriteWeb
Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search's content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the searches performed each day believes that the new program, called BOSS ( (Read More)
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Headlines for ngol2006
Yesterday I wrote a teaser piece masquerading as a vision piece. The vision is not mine, it's Eric Marcoullier's, a very affable and brilliant entrepreneur from San Francisco, who founded MyBlogLog and sold it to Yahoo for big bucks a few years back.As we know Twitter is having scaling problems, and in fact, some of the pro (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
Ping, ping, ping! That's the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web... and the machines are getting tired. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language and dreaming they knew which accounts belonged to the same people across diff (Read More)
Jul 02, 2008
: "Your application doesn't have to ping Flickr, YouTube, etc. etc. every few minutes and ask "have any of our users done anything on your individual service?" Now with Gnip, Flickr (a launch partner in fact) can report user data updates to Gnip, which can then pass that data along to consuming parties"
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ReadWriteWeb
I used to be annoyed by people who commented on my Twitter messages (tweets) in FriendFeed, rather than replying directly to me in Twitter (the platform I was using). However with the introductions of Rooms, FriendFeed is no longer a lifestream aggregator anymore - it is the perfect platform for sharing and discussing conte (Read More)
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China e-Lobby
The Chinese Communist Party has come to rely on radical nationalism as its regime's raison d'etre for nearly two decades. It is their only response to outrages like poor export control (Epoch Times), questions about its ties to corrupt and cruel dictators (like, say Fidel Castro - Washington Times), and especially the appa (Read More)
Jun 27, 2008
: I do not promote or agree with the China-bashing ubiquitous within this blog, but it is important to recognize how many individuals view China's and the Party's rise in recent decades. It is easy (and natural) to water down the elements of Western development in retrospect to promote the current status quo. On the other hand, it is extremely difficult, yet necessary to judge each development by their merits without displaying popular prejudices.
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Salon: Glenn Greenwald
Back in December, Harry Reid's plan was to have the Senate quickly pass the Cheney/Rockefeller FISA bill before the Senate recessed for Christmas. But Chris Dodd's relentless delaying tactics -- his filibuster and holds and other procedural tactics designed to block quick enactment of the bill, supported at every step by Ru (Read More)
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