Submitted by Working Writer
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Today, the Open Book Alliance released an extensive compilation of third party analysis of the revised Google Books Settlement. The wide-ranging consensus from a diverse chorus of voices is that the revised Settlement is barely distinguishable from the original Settlement and far from satisfying the major concerns of the D (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday!We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. It’s clear that the Smart Grid has gained the momentum it needs for serious work to be done, and we a (Read More)
Shakesville:
[Trigger warning.]Media Matters has noticed that prominent members of the conservative media sure love using "rape" as a metaphor (note the number of times it's used to accuse progressives of "raping" their fellow Americans): [Transcript below.]There's plenty more where that came from. Over at conservative cesspool Townhal (Read More)
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
The Enterprise Cloud Summit panel at the Interop Conference yesterday discussed some of the challenges and concerns of large enterprises and government agencies in moving their applications to the cloud. While there are some regulatory and compliance concerns for some applications, it isn’t an all or nothing proposition. Mo (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I've seen "extreme weather warning" alerts beep-beep-beep across my TV during a show, but someone playing a video game might not. That's why NY state officials are intending to also send those Emergency Management Office issued alerts over gaming networks. According to officials, the idea is to "reach younger residents who (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Burned by a scandal in its offer business over inappropriate promos, Offerpal Media is moving to set standards which forbids offers that are misleading, deceptive or otherwise objectionable.The action is the first move the company has made since it brought in a new chief executive, George Garrick, a couple of weeks ago. The (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Foursquare has just gone global with the announcement of 50 new cities worldwide, doubling their previous coverage. The company says it chose the cities based on feedback from users requesting the service.The new cities take the service across six continents, but it’s not so long since it was a strictly a tech-insider pheno (Read More)
VentureBeat:
At the Politics and Policy session, moderated by Michael Kanellos of Greentech Media, the one prevalent theme was the need for a simple, efficient legislation and regulation package for the U.S. power system. Robert Gee of Gee Strategies went so far as to say “Before anything is passed into law we need to get it past a pane (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The winners of the inaugural GreenBeat Innovation Competition — a survey of the most promising technologies and companies working toward a cleaner, more efficient grid — were just announced following four-minute presentations from the top eleven finalists (”eleven is the new ten”). Locust Storage, while launched its innovat (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
“Investing is hard.” (Abnormal Returns)“Investment blogging is difficult.” (Abnormal Returns)You would think, by transitive properties, that investment blog aggregation would also be difficult. But the idea floating around of late that aggregation, including investment blog aggregation, is easy. Especially if you read t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he's leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs. Expert Labs will be dedicated to connecting technology innovators ready to build tools with government officials who (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Kaltura, a popular open-source video solutions company, is announcing two new partnerships this week: one with LongTail Video to bring that company’s popular open-source video player JW Player to Kaltura, and one with Artivision, a company creating video monetization tools. These partnerships have huge promise for open-sour (Read More)
Submitted by Adamsherk
from Google Reader:
The role of social media in professional sports is getting a lot of attention these days, unfortunately mostly in the form of teams and leagues trying to clamp down on it or players making mistakes with it.Despite this, fans are passionately supporting and discussing their teams through a range of social media outlets, in p (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Peer-to-peer filesharing applications have been wildly popular, especially among those interested in accessing pirated software, music, and media. But not everyone who operates a P2P client knows how to properly configure the software, and some clients may share entire director (Read More)
Submitted by Jungleg
from Google Reader:
I’m in wonderful New York City this week, getting ready to do a 15-minute keynote talk on Making Sense of Google Wave tomorrow, November 17th. It’ll be at 2:05pm Eastern time, and if you’re not at the conference, you can watch it live on the web, here. I’ve also started the first public Web 2.0 Expo wave; search for with:pu (Read More)