During the past week or so, it’s been nearly impossible to avoid the near constant discussions among various bloggers and media sites about Twitter, the funky little service that lets anyone share with anyone what they’re doing right now. It is, for all intents and purposes, a simple interface for presence information. People use it [...]
- Dilbert comics stolen (approx. 250,000,000)
I’m probably leaving out a few things. The Dilbert comic theft might be an underestimate. I have documentation of 25 million thefts from the Internet alone in the past 12 months. It adds up.
Famous musicians get downloaded a lot. But they don’t produce a new song every day, as I [...]
The city of Napa this week approved an agreement with AT&T Inc. for an approximately 12-square- mile deployment of ATThe planned Wi-Fi network will add publicly accessible wireless broadband capabilities to the extensive, advanced AT&T communications network in Napa, enabling residents, visitors, city employees and businesses to tap into the unsurpassed AT&T network from virtually [...]
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We have a system that can learn to translate better if we know where the problems are. In the past, there was no way to tell us about problem translations. Now there is. Next time you see a sentence that makes you go “hmmm,” just hover over it to display the original text tooltip and [...]
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Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of [...]
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I (Lore Sjöberg) recently took a vacation and, in a moment of deranged optimism, decided to take a vacation from the internet at the same time. I left my laptop behind and vowed not to access the web, my e-mail or any other facet of the Online Experience until I was back at home. The [...]
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[...] America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We’re looking at an explosion of productivity [...]
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We launched Google Apps for Your Domain at the end of August, and since then we’ve been getting great feedback from people all over. Organizations from Thailand, Argentina, and even our neighbors in Palo Alto have set up private-label Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and spiffy customizable start pages for their custom domains. We think [...]
[Matt Cutts]
If you’ve never read my blog before, welcome. I’m the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this.
Okay, first off you should go read this post. It’s entitled “Me Against Google” and the author is unhappy that talkorigins.org was nowhere to be found in Google [...]
Maybe it’s because it’s late and I’ve had a few spiked Hot Chocolates (Peppermint Schnapps), but this entertained me for a while. Playing with it, refreshing and restarting. Your mouse creates trails the expand out but as you slow the become tighter and brighter. I think one reason for some reason it [...]
