Submitted by Robdiana
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of Google going evil. At that time, I was talking mostly about the fact that Google has free or cheap applications in many different areas. However, I did not really talk about standards they were developing. One commenter, Ed Richardson, mentioned this as a reason why [...]. (Read More)
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observer.guardian.co.uk
Research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announces she is author of mysterious call girl blog and says she has no regrets about working as prostituteOne of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when a 34-year-old research scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced that she was the writer better kno (Read More)
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Submitted by Courane01
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OK, so I can take a hint and I can see where we’re not wanted, and I’d rather get it all out so I don’t have to mention it again – we can just focus on the good stuff we’re doing and planning on doing.So, consider this my last ‘we’re getting picked on by Matt / Certain members of Automattic‘ post / flame / troll whatever yo (Read More)
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Web annotation is a sexy and increasingly crowded space in the market. As in any such pool, the amount of elbow-rubbing between individuals and similarity between products can lead to suspicion of theft.Annotation startup Reframe It, a 14-person team, claims that Google's hot new product Sidewiki crosses the line between co (Read More)
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: As far as I'm concerned, Sidewiki is a major liability to webmasters, website visitors, and humans in general. Most people don't know what a browser is. If they see something written "next to" a website it looks like it is part of that website.
In essence, anyone can now write anything on anyone else's website, on any page. And the moderation is not even in control of the webmaster. Someone could go to a drug website and add recommendations for off-label uses or overdoses and get people killed when those people think that Sidewiki is part of a trusted website. Not to mention a million other ramifications. Anyone could add their own download links to competing sales pages. Then, there is blackmail potential galore. If you don't ___ I will add comments to your website's sidewiki to expose ____ and include data on where people can find the evidence.
If this doesn't bring on lawsuits, trouble, and all sorts of disgusting "side effects" I don't know what will. I only hope Google comes to its senses sooner rather than later and removes this thing.
Submitted by Louisgray
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You’re a huge, global brand, and you’re on Twitter. You have lots of support employees on the network, and sensibly you’ve each allocated them a @name_company or @company_name username (i.e., ASOS_james). You have a unit working under your name, and they’re doing good things.One of your employees becomes the real star of th (Read More)
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TechCrunch
While most users may have not realized it, Twitter has had a rather annoying problem for some time now: If you deleted a tweet, it would still reside in Twitter Search’s index. This meant that if you said something you didn’t mean to, or made a mistake that you hoped to correct by deleting the tweet, it was still easily acc (Read More)
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TechCrunch
There is a lot of chatter about TweetMeme’s rather robust growth to over 18 million unique monthly visitors on Compete.com. That puts them ahead of well known sites like LinkedIn and gmail.com with 15 million and 9 million visitors, respectively, on the service). In fact, Tweetmeme currently sits as the 68th largest site on (Read More)
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: I personally see Tweetmeme in use quite a lot, and it has not been around (as far as I know) for NEARLY as long as Digg or Twitter,so I wouldn't personally compare them yet. Furthermore, it might be a bit of a "blogger's niche" where social networking is concerned.
VentureBeat
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. You can watch it here live or update as we go. This is paraphrased.)Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and co-founded FriendFeed before it was acquired by Facebook, is giving a talk entitled “They told me to wi (Read More)
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