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Google stole the tech and media spotlight today as it revealed a mountain of new details about Chrome OS, the company’s new operating system due in late 2010. It is a completely different type of OS (we provide a summary of how) that eliminates the desktop and focuses on getting you on the web quickly and efficiently. Now (Read More)
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Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. Ho (Read More)
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Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and monetization. He has also worked at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and McKinsey & Co. The world of onl (Read More)
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The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He will report directly to Tina Brown, the ye (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
The Guardian:
Joanna Geary, web development editor for The Times and one of the most thoughtful of journalistic bloggers, has an interesting take on Twitter storm controversies.Stimulated by Stephen Fry's defence of his own so-called influence during the Jan Moir episode, Geary raises a couple of pertinent points.Her second is about lib (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of Japan offered an upbeat outlook on the nation's overall economy Friday, saying that financial conditions continue to show signs of improvement, exports and production continue to increase, and the decline in corporate-capital outlays appears to be ending. But although economic downside ris (Read More)
New York Times:
Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.
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guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
In a country where brutal civil war raged just two decades ago, surprisingly little anger remains todayIt's hard to imagine a more tranquil place than Gaza: farmers taking their produce to market, women and children standing patiently at bus stops, towns crowded with shoppers, and along the almost empty sandy beaches no sou (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and yearsEurope's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climax last night when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and British peer Cathy Ashton (Read More)
National Review Online:
In May 2008, Chicago Public Radio teamed up with National Public Radio (NPR) to produce an episode of the show This American Life called “The Giant Pool of Money.” The episode garnered widespread praise and won several awards for explaining the subprime-mortgage crisis with clarity and concision. It was such a success that (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Chief executive of country's biggest building society warns rising unemployment will hit house prices and attacks regulatory changesNationwide Building Society today attacked regulatory changes which it warned could impede the mutual sector as it admitted profits in the first half had fallen more than 60%.Underlying pre-tax (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Stofile: 'Caster has been found innocent of any wrong'• 'Her future is in her own hands' claims sport minsterCaster Semenya, the South African athlete who was ordered to undergo gender verification tests following her victory at the World Championships in Berlin, will be allowed to keep the 800m gold medal she won accordi (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
So how's Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday…"Supposing I was to say to someone: 'you can have my Twitter identity for an hour on Wednesday if you pay me x pounds and you (Read More)