Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
The Russian financial regulator intends to find out soon who owns all the Russian companies in Cyprus and obtain confidential information about them. The heads of the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service signed a memorandum of mutual understanding yesterday with the Commission on Securities and Stock Operations of Cypr (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In a column appearing in Newsweek, world affairs expert and author Fareed Zakaria said he thinks it would be best for Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, if Gov. Sarah Palin bowed out as his vice presidential running mate.Zakaria says McCain did not put the country first in making his V.P. choice, (Read More)
: @jasongoldberg @billspaced @1918 I concur with Jason on this one, it's refreshing to be in a space where true debate can occur without devolving into rhetoric (or name calling).
Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
It by now seems to be an article of faith for many people that Russia's invasion of Georgia on Aug. 8 caused a massive fall in the Russian stock market, as well as a crash of the currency and outflow of foreign capital. Is this at all credible?. (Read More)
GigaOM
In response to today’s news that Google is releasing its own browser, code-named Chrome, I decide to call John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp., the folks behind the fast growing Firefox browser. My intention was to find out what he thought about this development especially since they have been viewed as close personal par (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it.Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make i (Read More)
: Ma.gnolia is a part of a new favicon that can be found on a UI that was developed for Moodle use by NewSchool Learning for experience247.com v4.5, which allows the Admin to choose between 7 different colors for the UI (blue, red, green, yellow, purple, pink, and black). Developed for use with Moodle's ~ Ma.gnolia's favicon can be seen in use at http://getsmartmoodle.org presently.
: Hello, everyone I just went to http://getsmartmoodle.org to check out the other favicons on the site: Digg, BlinkBits, De.licio.us, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, and Technorati are listed among them...so I guess that open source rules and that people could be getting tired of paying huge prices for technoloy... and that they want something a little more affordable...
Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
Jaiku has announced their move to the Google Engine App system and given existing users unlimited invites. Will this give the microblogging platform stability and the ability to scale? If so, this date may mark the day Twitter had it's first serious competition. . (Read More)
Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
Twitter has released their most detailed guidelines yet on what they consider spam within their system. Commercial users take note. Although they emphasise that commercial or promotional use of Twitter is allowed the following activities may be considered spam and result in account suspension. (Read More)
Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
I warn you, the article is quite long. Print it out and take it with you. Read it while you wait in line or in traffic. It’s one of those articles which will change the way you watch world events. (Read More)
Submitted by Nickwilsdon:
The US administration has always insisted that Russia's fears about the new missile-shield being used against them are unfounded. However US officials are now citing Georgia as a reason to speed up the implementation of the project. (Read More)
Mashable!
If Twitter were down for one, two, or even three consecutive days, would you crack? For the heaviest, most avid of users, I think yes. But when the microblogging service Jaiku, acquired some 9-10 months ago by Google, told its users to take a weekend breather the past couple of days, few in the blog world raised the issue. (Read More)
: Turns out, as suggested, that this was part of their long anticipated move to Google's App Engine. I guess this marks the day Jaiku just became a serious competitor to Twitter.
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Dana says the demand is still very high in search. Even though there are massive layoffs everywhere (California has an unemployment rate of 7 percent), there's a huge demand to hire search people. Search also pays pretty well. Because of how awesome we are. (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
It all makes sense when you learn that Twitter's CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey spent 15 years writing dispatch software for couriers, taxis and 911.Jack's concept of "ambient social awareness" is derived from the crackling sounds of voices, coming from two-way radios, saying what patient is going to which hospital, or whi (Read More)