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Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax Alliance, along with thirty-one other companies. And although thirty of those corporations were named in the official…
If you’re a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and of Second Life, this might interest you.
If you are an American History buff you will be interested to know that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress has announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" is available online. The site has more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington DC published between 1900 and 1910. The…
It's been rumored for a while, but it's finally being tested, as Google has announced a beta program to test pay-per-action (PPA) AdWords bidding. The Snap search engine has done PPA for years, but obviously it is big news when Google does it. I first speculated on this two years ago when Google acquired the Urchin analytics firm (now Google Analytics), but it's finally here.…
A bill, not written by Congress, requiring that US representatives actually read legislation before voting on it, under penalty of perjury, has been around a couple of years, but hasn't received much attention. The authors of the bill aim to remedy that through an online viral campaign, leveraging the sudden power of social networking.
Last week, a high-ranking Google executive confirmed that the search engine company is developing a mobile phone. Now another exec - one with even more influence - has denied the rumors. “[B]ecoming an equipment manufacturer is pretty far from our business model,” said Vinton Cerf.
