Posts on ‘October 2nd, 2008’

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October 2, 2008 - 9:10 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski 3 Comments

YouTube has been experimenting with various ways to make its voluminous business a very profitable one.
It’s been months since the company first introduced graphical and text-based advertisements within the bottom third of video screens. And several weeks ago it was said to [...]

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October 1, 2008 - 11:18 am PDT - by Jennifer Leggio

This is a guest post written by Jennifer Leggio, who writes about enterprise trends around social media, including security, privacy and reputation issues, for ZDNet.
You’re a thought leader in your industry. You want to convene other thought leaders in one place to share ideas with each [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on October 1, 2008

Google has just launched a new homepage for its blog search that bears a strong resemblance to Techmeme,Memeorandum and their “memetracker” counterparts. The site displays a listing of the top stories from across a variety of topics including business, politics, technology, and entertainment.
Memetrackers identify emerging trends on the web, especially across blogs. They are [...]

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by JOHN MARKOFF
Published: October 1, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.

The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese [...]

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By Glenn Fleishman | Published: October 01, 2008 - 10:25PM CT

A Rice University graduate student working with advisors at his institution and Hewlett Packard developed and tested a technique that could dramatically improve how outdoor, metropolitan-scale WiFi networks are planned and deployed, while also reducing the cost and time involved in getting a network’s footprint [...]

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October 1, 2008 - 9:30 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
The buzz has more or less died down, at least in the pages ofGawker, MediaShift, TechDirt and Romenesko. But our very ownAlana Taylor did a feature for PBS blog MediaShift, a commentary really, on the lack of New Media savvy amongst the students and faculty at NYU in a class called [...]

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By C.G. Lynch, CIO.com, IDG
Published: October 1, 2008

Socialtext, a Web 2.0 vendor that has sold social software (primarily wikis) to businesses for internal collaboration and knowledge management, officially launched Socialtext People (enterprise social networking profiles) and Socialtext Signals, an application that allows business users to share short messages (in 140 characters or less) [...]

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By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau, IDG
Published: October 1, 2008

A New York-based startup called ZocDoc that provides people with a way to schedule health-care appointments online got some backing from two industry heavy-hitters Wednesday Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezosand Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff.
ZocDoc did not disclose the exact amount it is receiving from Bezos and Benioff, [...]

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October 2, 2008 - 3:45 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

I’m not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I have no solid data to confirm it, I can’t help the feeling that Steve Ballmer’s announcement of [...]