ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, compare five recommendation services for iPhone apps, review the new-look MSN, and mor (Read More)
: He asks if massive content sites gaining momentum is "cause for concern about the future of the Web?" - my thinking on this is it's cause for rejoicing. Regardless if you're building your site(s) for fun or profit, the point is constant and quality content creation should ultimately be rewarded.
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
New York Times:
Louisiana officials say that an investigation into the community organizing group is examining new allegations about a decade-old embezzlement case.
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USATODAY.com - Science Fair:
Scientists have sequenced a high-quality draft of the genome of the domestic horse, Equus caballus. The research suggests that when horses were first domesticated, between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago, it was from a relatively large number of females, but...
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Crooks and Liars:
What happens after all the fear mongering that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons bunker turns out to be bunk? U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. (Read More)
Mashable!:
Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for “That Morning Show” on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com.A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current econo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Dennis Howlett got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today, with his continued skepticism about "social" technologies and their place in the business world. Here's a quote from his post entitled Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate:"Why am I not surprised? I've argued for years that the notion of anything that has ' (Read More)
Washington Post:
The Fort Hood attack is the third instance this year in which American military personnel in the United States have been targeted by people reportedly opposed to U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism experts said.
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CNET News.com:
AT&T Labs in San Francisco opens its doors to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. (Read More)
CNN:
Cuauhtémoc Morgan Wednesday afternoon was released the third ridley turtle with satellite transponder on the beaches of Los Cabos. The turtle was named AZTECA.For the scientific community remains in a mystery migration of this species that reaches the coast of Baja California Sur to lay eggs.The turtle group in the m (Read More)
New York Times:
The dream of the teacherless classroom has returned, thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners.
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VentureBeat:
Brizzly, the status update client from the makers of Google Reader, has stepped up to become the second big app to support Twitter lists. (Seesmic was the first earlier this week.)Lists are what they sound like — groups of Twitter accounts that people can recommend to others. They’re usually centered around a theme like ent (Read More)
New York Times:
Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said Thursday that the company might look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval. (Read More)