The Week in Review
April 18, 2008 at 8:30 am by Chris
This post is a collection of things that caught my attention this week, most of which came to me via RSS feeds and blogs that I read myself. Now I'm passing them on to you (in the order in which I bookmarked them). Enjoy!- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Read why older generations may stave of the death of the internet by tethered devices. Read how the NYTimes.com geocodes its articles to collaborate with Google Earth. Read this criticism of the titles and categories within Google Analytics. Read how Google is now indexing hidden pages- like those behind web forms. Read how Microsoft is about to launch it's own retail store. Read why Enterprise 2.0 is a computer security nightmare. Read why notifications are the new spam. Find out how to get Mac-suite software for cheap! Read why Yahoo-Google agreement could drive up ad rates. Read how the Open Geospatial Consortium has announced its acceptance of KML 2.2 as an official OGC Standard. Read why the Exaflood now seems unlikely. Read how one study shows that Google lost a share of its search ad dollars to Yahoo. Check out Wordie. Read how, in honor of the Australian launch of Google Street View, a Sydney-based newspaper hunted down the home addresses of some of the top local Googlers and disclosed some of their most personal information. Read why venture capitalists remain upbeat despite less return on investments. Read why Malaysian political candidates are required to have blogs. Check out GIMP's new look. Read how big and small companies are getting into the business of building an intelligent web of linked data. Don't Be Evil (psych!) How do you use Facebook? Brandon Rennels has compiled a fairly substantial list of user types. Read how researchers have built a quantum logic gate in an optical fiber, laying the foundation for a quantum computer network. Yahoo! buys Indextools. More legal trouble for Facebook? Read how Comcast is looking to further position itself as proactively addressing the issue of managing peer-to-peer traffic that traverses its network by creating a “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” for users and Internet service providers. Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions Read how Flickr has launched a new website for developers. Read how a new spam site goes online every three seconds. Read how ISPs have meddled with their customers' web traffic. Read how Google’s first quarter results were amazingly good, despite the worries on Wall Street about a slowdown in consumers clicking on its ads. Read why many dire predictions were wrong about Google's earnings. |
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