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One old-media journalist thinks it's time to unleash a brigade of Louis Vuitton-bearing lawyers on Google to stop them from stealing from…
I occasionally use my cell phone to talk, and on still rarer occasions, to snap a photo. It mostly serves as a pocket-born paperweight. But for those of you who are a little more in touch with the mobile market, Google has just the thing: Google Checkout for mobile.
A few days ago, a report showed that Internet advertising was up 35% last year, hitting almost $17 billion. It’s been almost a year since we reported, “Web Advertising Spending Too Low,” and it looks like advertisers are starting to close the gap.
I’ve noticed this several times and thought I’d bring it up. TechMeme seems to penalize bloggers who link to other bloggers. Most bloggers believe that a major part of how TechMeme decides which is the most important story is to count links. That isn’t true in following mine, and other people’s results. I believe there’s a “linking penalty” on TechMeme. At least it seems that…
So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?” Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too. Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra? All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.
All right. I know there are a lot of passionate LiveJournal users out there, and I know censorship is bad. But in this case, it was also somewhat funny. LiveJournal claimed it had blocked access to around 500 journals on the basis that they supported pedophilia - turns out, some of them were just discussing Lolita.
