Lifehacker
Google released Image Swirl today, a new experimental Labs feature designed to make it easier to find related images on the internet and tease out elusive images from the millions already on the web. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Like its cousin Image Search, Image Swirl is super easy to use. Type in one of mor (Read More)
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New Comm Biz
You can’t read more than a handful of tweets before someone mentions influence. You also won’t find a Twitter measurement tool out there that doesn’t mention influence. Some may ask how Twitter made so many people influential. It didn’t. I’d agree that it has made some people *more* influential if only because it gave peopl (Read More)
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Does web video promotion work? Is web video a great promotional tool? How do you get your web video ranking well in the search engines?
Most business owners using web video would love to have a strategy for extensive promotion and distribution of their web video. Find out how it’s all achieved. (Read More)
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: Good solid article on web video marketing. Includes strategies for ranking in the search engines using targeted keywords. The two stage strategy mentioned in the article is interesting.
Techdirt
So this is interesting. The folks at The Pirate Bay have shut down its tracker for good, and switched entirely to a distributed, decentralized system, called DHT. As others are noting, this is quite a milestone, but I actually wonder if it will also have legal implications. Basically, using such a distributed system take (Read More)
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TwitLinks
LOS ANGELES--When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a pretty good idea where the computing world was going. He just didn't know how Microsoft was going to get there.While many are ready to write off Microsoft as an declining icon of computing's last generation, Ozzie sees Microsoft (Read More)
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TechCrunch
Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in.Though they’d never admit to such a thing, the reasoning should be obvious: The longer you’re at your computer, the more time you’re spen (Read More)
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A VC
After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business of APIs conference. In the cab, I opened socialscope on my blackberry to check into twitter and saw this tweet from my partner Albert:Love APIs -- so excited about @foursquare's announcement http:/ (Read More)
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The world is running out of uranium and nobody seems to have noticedThe world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil are forcing governments towards the nuclear option. The p (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service called Factery Labs aims to provide for any service that utilizes the API it's launch (Read More)
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Adobe has finally launched the first beta of Adobe Air 2 to the public. It includes lots of new features and takes far less system memory than it’s predecessors. The latest version includes Mass Storage device integration which means Adobe Air apps can now access USB drives, Flash memory sticks, Digital Camera, and more.Apa (Read More)
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