The Internet is screwed. Net Neutrality could very well be another idealized concept that is about to be thrown out with the bathwater. At least that is what is being reported in the Wall Street ...
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A lifetime ago, well a blog writing gig ago I gained a reputation as the guy who hates Izea/ PayPerPost. Nothing will change that reputation, but I have said repeatedly over the years that I don't hate ...
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Now before you get all in an uproar this is pure and unadulterated rumour and speculation being talked about in the blogosphere. The idea that is considering the financial problems that the N.Y. Times is in ...
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Google Adsense for Domains, Google's dormant domain ad service has opened its doors to more users.
The program inserts Google ads relevant to the domain on unusued URL's, creating a landing page of relevant links. Well, that's ...
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A Google exec credited with helping build the company's monetization systems and mobile business has accepted a position with LinkedIn, according to recently published reports.
Dipchand "Deep" Nishar will become LinkedIn's vice president of product strategy, the Wall ...
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I’d like to see FriendFeed partner with Google Reader on something that I believe the Inner Web Nerds in all of us freak out with joy and exultation. Not a Google purchase of FriendFeed (which was founded ...
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Google has announced that it has begun adding magazines to its Google Book Search service.
Millions of pages from New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Men's Health, Ebony and other publications will be available along side book ...
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Gmail has gotten a little more Outlook-like with a new "Tasks" option built into the Webmail interface.
Gmail Tasks, now found under the "Labs" setting tab, lets you click to add any reminder to yourself, then check off ...
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Everyone is so in love with Google. It seems that 99% of the time they can do no wrong and when they do it's forgotten by the time of the next news cycle. We are always hearing ...
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Ever feel like you are suddenly standing in a pool of quicksand and there is nothing that you can do to get out of it?
Lately this is how social media has felt like. From both as a ...
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Google Friend Connect is the latest in a trend of big media companies who are ‘opening up their users data’ to help make the web more social. Facebook recently scored big by securing a deal that would ...
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Google has launched a redesigned Google Reader (GReader) including new looks and features.
Collapsible navigation is now offered in the sidebar so users can now maximize or minimize all controls. Friend sharing gets an improved look in, with ...
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Just short of two weeks after first offering widescreen video, YouTube has rolled out widescreen embeddable videos, with a new standard search feature.
The new embeds deliver a 16:9 ratio for widescreen vidoes, allowing sites to show a ...
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Senior Product Manager at Google, and the head of Picasa Mike Horowitz has left Google.
Mike Horowitz joined Google after a short stint at Applied Semantics in 2003, at lead the development of Picasa from what ...
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Just over a year since launching, Google's first play into quasi onsite social networking Google Friend Connect remains in private beta, however some sites are now receiving invitations to sign up.
I know this because we are one ...
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Google has released a major overhaul for Google Street View, delivering new functionality that makes the service easier and more friendly to use.
The new Street View revolves around "Pegman" a Clippy like character that users can drag ...
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Could HD on YouTube be far away? YouTube has today announced its first ever overhaul of the YouTube video player, with a new aspect ratio of 16:9.
The announcement (which I had to read through a proxy....f&*k you ...
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I've written many times here at The Inquisitr and on other sites before about my complete hatred of georetarding, the blocking of content, particularly (but not exclusively) video content based on a users location in the world. ...
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Google has started rolling out "SearchWiki," a new feature that allows users to change the order of search engine results.
Available only to signed in Google users, the feature allows you to move the sites that appear in ...
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I don't think there is an adult alive today that doesn't remember at least one iconic photograph that appeared on the cover of Time's LIFE magazine. Those photographs from as early as the 1750's to now have ...
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Google is to shut its 3D virtual world Google Lively less than 6 months after launching it.
Lively launched with a bang back in July with talk that it could become a Second Life killer. However limited support, ...
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The days of a bland Gmail interface is over: Google has launched Gmail Themes.
The new Gmail themes offer 30 initial choices away from the standard Gmail layout, in a similar offering to what Google has been providing ...
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