Daily Archives: December 1, 2008

Citizen Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks

Via the New York Times By BRIAN STELTER and NOAM COHEN Published: November 29, 2008 From his terrace on Colaba Causeway in south Mumbai, Arun Shanbhag saw the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel burn. He saw ambulances leave the … Continue reading

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You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?

Via the New York Times By JOHN MARKOFF Published: November 29, 2008 HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers … Continue reading

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The intersection of social media and the cloud

Via Tech Crunch IT by Steve Gillmor on November 29, 2008 The competition for the next wave of enterprise computing has heated up since Microsoft announced its Windows Azure strategy a month ago. While the jury is out in some … Continue reading

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Maybe Canadians Have More Friends

Via the New York Times By ALEX MINDLIN Published: November 30, 2008 Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number … Continue reading

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Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 30, 2008 Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad … Continue reading

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