Submitted by Koltregaskes
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In company of teleportation, AIDS vaccine. Time.com has put forward Project Natal as one of The 50 Best Inventions of 2009. The online arm of the famous US magazine said traditional controllers have stood as a "barrier (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta outlined the strategy for the social network to perhaps regain some of its former glory: the “socialization of content.” While MySpace may not be seeing major growth in terms of new users, the social network is gaining major traction on its communities that a (Read More)
Submitted by Dominik
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The augmented reality view in Brightkite’s mobile app.Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding this past April.In recent months I’ve found myself using Foursquare more and more, though I still update Brightkite from time to tim (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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The California Legislature long ago recognized the dangers associated with collecting and maintaining consumers’ personal identification information, finding that the practice put the physical safety of consumers at risk and jeopardized consumers’ financial security due to identify theft and credit card fraud. In response, (Read More)
EFF.org Updates:
We spend a lot of our time at EFF trying to spot new proposals in copyright across the world, and understanding whether they're good or bad for civil liberties. We're not the only ones: our understanding depends on the work of hundreds of researchers worldwide who are constantly sifting through new drafts and consolidating (Read More)
EFF.org Updates:
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch Copyright Watch -- a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws at www.copyright-watch.org."Copyright laws are ch (Read More)
The Volokh Conspiracy:
The New York Times Room for Debate blog has a forum on the implications of Pfizer’s decision to abandon its New London headquarters. Pfizer and its New London facility had previously played a key role in instigating the condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the use of eminent domain for “economi (Read More)
Submitted by Marcel
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Jeff Jarvis hat als Nachbetrachtung zur seiner Keynote auf den Münchner Medientagen einen Beitrag über sein Dauerthema Linkökonomie für Die Welt geschrieben. Auf Englisch, was Die Welt dann ins Deutsche übersetzt hat. Nur die Bedeutung seiner Worte ging an manchen Stellen ein wenig verloren. Sie lässt sich allerdings rekons (Read More)
Inside Facebook:
Following Facebook’s recent Platform roadmap announcements, there has been a lot of developer uncertainty about the best ways for applications to continue to communicate with their users. The many changes are going to affect all applications, but some smaller developers without marketing budgets are particularly worried abo (Read More)
WebProNews Feed:
The majority (80%) of emails sent with coupons received higher open rates and transaction rates than non-coupon campaigns, according to a new report from Experian Marketing Services.Seventy percent of coupons-using households get their coupons from newspapers. However, the Internet is a growing coupon resource. Over the las (Read More)
HRmarketer.com Blog:
The HR Market Share podcast is back and ready for your listening pleasure below. Subscribe to the series in iTunes and look for regular posts to our blog and on the HRmarketer.com site. You can also subscribe to all our past interviews and episodes via Hipcast.Our latest podcast features an interview with Beth N. Carvin, CE (Read More)
GamesIndustry.biz - News:
The Guardian's Thursday Technology print section is to cease publication at the end of the year, it has been confirmed. The closure forms part of a series of cutbacks at Guardian News & Media following a GBP 33 million drop in revenues. In total more than 100 editorial (Read More)
Submitted by Gregbd
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Data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages was released today by a tiny Texas startup company that forward-looking geeks have been watching for a year. Austin-based Infochimps announced this afternoon that it is now selling two important and very large sets of Twitter data. Limited samples of the data are available (Read More)
Photo Business News & Forum:
dpBestflow - the culmination of a multi-year project between the Library of Congress and the American Society of Media Photographers, was officially launched during Washington DC's FotoWeekDC celebration, and using superlatives like "comprehensive", "all-encompassing", or "world class" seems to still under-state the hercule (Read More)
BetaNews.Com:
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsMore and more people are using the M word -- that is "monopoly" -- to describe Google. Certainly there is an argument that, globally, Google has a monopoly on search. According to combined analyst reports, Google's worldwide search share is about 60 percent, even 70 or 80 percent in some geographies - (Read More)